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” Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have designed a rooftop landscape of allotments to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York City.

The project has been commissioned by Garden City Roofs, a company that specialises in green roof systems.

“As a result of [Mayor] Bloomberg’s PlaNYC, in which he call for buildings to be more energy efficient by 2030, interest in green roofs is on the rise,” says Florian Idenburg of SO-IL. “Our client is a start-up company who is catering to this new interest, mostly by inexperienced building owners.

“She is providing a one-stop-shop, where one can learn about the roughly half a dozen systems available, get structural engineering advices, tax rebate advice, installer and maintenance recommendation.

“We have designed the allotments; and a small sales offices, that doubles as a display for “green” materials for which our client is a rep as well.”

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