Beirut bank gets Lebanon’s largest rooftop garden by GreenStudios

From San Francisco, to Amsterdam to Tel Aviv to Cairo, and now Beirut. Rooftop gardens are growing everywhere. Fueled by a desire to suck greenhouse gases, create heat sinks, beautify the city and even grow food, rooftop gardens may be the only way to feed our planet’s 7 billion mouths.

GreenStudios latest installation on the Central Bank of Beirut (top two pictures above and the ones below Oliver Wehbe peeking out from his plants), is considered to be the city’s largest rooftop garden. The installation was a competition held by the UNDP Cedro project in collaboration the Central Bank of Lebanon. – See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2014/11/beirut-bank-gets-lebanons-largest-rooftop-garden-by-greenstudios/#sthash.wvhLQ0rF.dpuf

While today many of the gardens are ornamental, like Green Studio’s massive 812 square meter garden in Beirut, rooftops are an essential platform for growing food in cities, where an estimated 70% of the world’s population lives. – See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2014/11/beirut-bank-gets-lebanons-largest-rooftop-garden-by-greenstudios/#sthash.wvhLQ0rF.dpuf

Original article by Karin Kloosterman

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