New condo building has farming on roof
A new condo building in Old Montreal is doing urban agriculture on the roof, and the same developer is working on a temporary garden near Jacques-Cartier bridge. Greenwashing? Maybe, but the plants are real.
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Kate
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Faiz Imam 15:34 on 2019-07-18 Permalink
Architecture and design itself is to a large extent insubstantial veneers to what is a pretty generic structure underneath. But sustainability has been a strong ideal for quite a few years now, it doesn’t surprise me that all buildings at least check a few of the basic green boxes.
Land use aside, the only aspect that I find really important is to havr more wood frame skyscrapers. The tech is solid and some pretty huge buildings are being built elsewhere in the world. We have the cheap wood to do it and the savings vs steel and concrete are huge.
Chris 17:02 on 2019-07-18 Permalink
Concrete is also very CO2 intensive.
Does this new building forgoe parking? That would be much greener!
Faiz Imam 19:08 on 2019-07-18 Permalink
Well, here is the website of the project: http://le21e.prevel.ca/en/specifications.php
I don’t see any mention of parking anywhere, and they focus a ton of the quality of the surrounding area, so I would lean towards saying there is no parking?
But I can’t say so positively.