Aloni, also by Deca, sits under a green roof in a saddle between two slopes.
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In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!
The American Firearms School sits in an industrial park just north of Providence, in a beige stucco building topped with a roof of mint-green sheet metal.
The green roof is a four-layer, matlike system topped with drought-resistant sedum.
Dusty Gedge, co-founder of Livingroof.org, a UK Web site promoting the green roof industry, believes it is the government's responsibility to help the industry grow.
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San Francisco entrepreneur Todd Pelman has founded a small start-up company called Blue Green Pacific, which produces a corkscrew-shaped, roof-mounted turbine that is still in the development phase.
To capitalize on the earth-friendly factor, architect Robert Maschke suggested the Brahlers use an insulating eco-roof as well as a green exterior wall covered with layers of soil.
The same is true of green tax credits for a privately installed solar roof.
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This cutting of red tape has delighted business - and doubtless those wanting a roof extension, too - but green groups and civic groups fear that the new system has handed power to a quango from politicians and people.
We have a proposed stormwater control plan that will use a host of green infrastructure like rain gardens, green roof technology and green space to keep harmful storm surge out of out sewer system.
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That sliding roof is tinted a very light gray-green via new process that blocks almost all damaging sunlight rays and, also, is said to be 10 times harder to bust than tempered glass.
The green roof market alone grew by 115% last year, according to Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a not-for-profit organization touting the benefits of turf roofing.
In many countries, the green roof industry is vulnerable to non-acceptance and a lack of understanding.
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She was sitting on the roof again, as a cold dusk settled, the sky tinged green.
But an old green Volkswagen Beetle inches past the plaza, a loudspeaker roaring scratchily from its roof.
So the green roof industry continues to grow -- but there's a feeling that government support could be better.
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But to our family, this modest brown cabin with its green trim and weathered, moss-covered roof is far more than just a summer vacation spot.
The best scenario would be for the Green Bay Packers to play the Pittsburgh Steelers in a high-scoring shoot-out with the roof open.
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By 2011, the Red Sox completed a 10-year renovation plan for Fenway Park that included added seats to the Green Monster and right field roof, three new scoreboards beyond right-center field, and updated suites and luxury boxes.
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