Gardeners divide them into trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, biennials and annuals, with sub-categories for plants thriving in particular soils or in certain aspects: sunny or shaded, dry or boggy. I could go on ad infinitum: herbs, grasses, succulents….. Nowhere is the horticultural imp...
When Bradford Gilbert (1853-1911) was commissioned to do an office structure in 1887 for a narrow site at 50 Broadway, he was successful in having the building code revised to permit the use of skeleton construction. The 21-foot-6-inch-wide facade was designed as a Romanesque tower, and ...
Completed in 2014, the project features about 800 trees (each measuring 3, 6, or 9 m (10, 20 or 30 ft) tall), alongside a wide-range of shrubs and flowers on 8900 m2 (96,000 ft2) of terrace spaces. These are placed mainly on large, staggered, cantilevered balconies at a gracious...