Warren Park Green Roof

Features include an event centre roof garden and a sunken garden with a bamboo island within a water pool.

Warren park green roof.

The park is designed to provide a variety of settings for public gatherings and connects the mixed use project with its urban neighbourhood. Klyde warren park is dallas s central urban park that has bridged the eight lane woodall rodgers freeway which had been a barrier between downtown and uptown. Gsa has over 80 buildings equipped with green roofs spanning approximately 2 2 million square feet. It bridges the arts district and uptown communities with a walkable urban green space.

The park was constructed as a five acre deck over an eight lane highway. The park is designed to reflect the. Coast guard headquarters in washington dc which is almost as large as ten football fields. Photo by mark andrew boyer for inhabitat at just over 5 acres klyde warren park isn t a big park it spans just two city blocks.

This includes what is believed to be the second largest planted roof in the world. It was specified to help reduce weight over the massive deck structure above woodall rodgers freeway. Current project magnuson park building 406 the brig roof replacement ada renovations hvac upgrades. Green roof s calming effect some say a park on top of the freeway never would have been possible without former dallas mayor erik jonsson s foresight in the 1960s.

That is about 50 acres or 48 football fields of green roofs. It s big enough to make an impression and to help dallas. The park has a 10 000 person capacity and is managed by the woodall rodgers park foundation with full time security. Klyde warren park is one.

Klyde warren park is one of the more imaginative green spaces out there. Last summer as the mercury rose and the ground soured and cleaved barry mandel had a choice. At 350 acres it is seattle s second largest park. The park reconnects the city s downtown cultural district with the neighborhoods to the north.

Grass trees or flowers. The 5 2 acre park sits atop an on structure deck over a recessed eight lane freeway in the heart of the city. Klyde warren helps connect downtown dallas by allowing for pedestrian and bicycle traffic between uptown and the dallas arts district. Downtown dallas klyde warren park is a marvel of engineering and design.

Magnuson park sits on a splendid mile long stretch of lake washington s shoreline in northeast seattle.