Green roofs are catching on in New York. It is no surprise that is the people who are leading the movement. In the words of Margaret Mead, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Friday, I had the unique opportunity to visit the extensive green roof atop the Linda Tool and Die Corporation in Brooklyn.
I’ve just finished my MA program at New York University in Historical and Sustainable Architecture. The focus of the program is Adaptive Reuse, urban regeneration, and sustainability. I was fortunate enough to be able to study in London. My time there was all too brief but it has opened my eyes to the possibilities of adaptive reuse and just how far behind America is in such matters (among others, but
Hampton Court History in Brief Hampton Court Palace sits on the banks of the Thames in Surrey. Cardinal Woolsey transformed Hampton Court, a grand house when he acquired it, into a sprawling palace in the mid- 16th century. So impressed was Henry VIII with the Cardinal’s palace that Woolsey “gifted” it to the King (he really did not have a choice in the matter). Of all of his palaces, Hampton
Entrance to Sachenhausen Concentration Camp. Photo ©Heather Shimmin About 40 km north of Berlin, in the small town of Oranienburg, is Sachsenhausen, the first Nazi Concentration Camp. Sachsenhausen’s design was the model on which all other Concentration Camps were based. Its triangular shape was so that a single, mounted machine gun in the watch tower (in the centre of the triangle’s base) could reach the entire camp. The
recently went to New York to take in the sights, and most importantly, the museums. Which worked out because the weather was bitter cold and it snowed- twice. But I was perfectly happy spending my time filling my creative bucket, as it were.
Since it was so cold, I didn’t get to do as much outdoor photography as I would have liked, however, it did try several digital time lapse photography experiments.
Here are the results:
The end result will vary, depending on a myriad of factors: the type of film used, the type of light used (e.g. Tungsten, fluorescent, daylight), etc.