by Brianna Crandall — October 16, 2015—Green Roofs for Healthy Cities presented the 2015 Green Roof and Wall Awards of Excellence at the CitiesAlive: 13th Annual Green Roof and Wall Conference in Brooklyn, New York, last week. Awards in eight categories recognized outstanding design projects.
Themed “Resilient People, Communities and Places” for 2015, the conference featured cutting-edge designs, new technical performance research, innovative policy work, a trade show with industry leaders, and informative professional training and tours.
The Breathe Wall in Grand Rapids is an abstract art piece rotating 70+ species of annuals, edibles and perennials to convey that plants give us more than beauty; they supply us with the very oxygen we breathe.
2015 Awards of Excellence winners
- Intensive Residential: TriBeCa Loft – New York, NY; by New York Green Roofs LLC
- Special Recognition: LeFrak Lakeside Center Prospect Park – New York, NY; by Roofmeadow
- Intensive Industrial/Commercial: Aventura Optima Plaza – Aventura, FL; by Savino & Miller Design Studio
- Extensive Institutional: Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology – Philadelphia, PA; by Roofmeadow
- Extensive Industrial/Commercial: Fidek Office Building – Red Deer, AB, Canada; by Berry Architecture + Associates
- Small Scale Residential: 58A Melville Ave – Toronto, ON, Canada; by Johanne Daoust
- Intensive Institutional: Helen Schuler Nature Centre (HSNC) – Lethbridge, AB, Canada; by O2 Planning + Design
- External Green Wall: Breathe Wall – Grand Rapids, MI; by LiveWall, LLC
GRHC’s Awards of Excellence site offers more information about the award and past winners, and will be updated to include information on this year’s winners. The GRHC site also details the many aesthetic, environmental, health, energy-saving, roofing durability and other benefits of both green roofs and green walls.
