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Somebody wanted to build a water filtration center on the spot of a Bronx, NY golf-course driving range. Bad idea? It was until the architects decided to build the plant and keep the range.
?EUR??,,????'?????<?????????????????Green roofs?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????????? are nothing new?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????????????one day soon all of us will have grass for a roof, especially if the economy continues to plunge into its fiery little hellpit. But at the Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx, the roof of a new water filtration plant is ?EUR??,,????'?????<?????????????????performative?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????????? according to landscape architect Ken Smith?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????????????who worked on it with a firm, called Grimshaw because it?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????????????????(R)?EUR??,,????'????s also a nine-acre driving range.
Even though it is full of drinking water, the $2.1 billion facility has to stay dry. The summer downpours and spring thaws that would otherwise buffet the green roof are naturally filtered and collected in innovative drains that route water around the entire 9-hole golf course. It apparently takes up to eight days for water to make its way around the circuit of irrigation.
In case you were wondering, this will be the ?EUR??,,????'?????<?????????????????largest contiguous green roof in the country,?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????????? according to the Architect?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????????????????(R)?EUR??,,????'????s Newspaper, and it alone will cost $95 million. It?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????????????????(R)?EUR??,,????'????s also an impressive step forward for the City of New York in the arena of sustainable architecture. Mind you, this is not a concept, like a lot of the pretty sketches we publish.
Our drinking water supply?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????????????????(R)?EUR??,,????'????s first line of defense against terrorism: golf and landscape architect Ken Smith. Who knew? Grimshaw Architects, that?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????????????????(R)?EUR??,,????'????s who, hence the firm?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????????????????(R)?EUR??,,????'????s design for a gigantic green roof at the new Croton Reservoir filtration plant sunk under Mosholu Golf Course in Van Cortlandt Park.
The facility is mostly underground, and the roof will doubles as a driving range, with the clubhouse and filtration pools creating a security barrier, medieval fortress style, protecting the water supply from evil terrorist attack. Security-ness says Ken Smith; ?EUR??,,????'?????<?????????????????I think we?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????????????????(R)?EUR??,,????'????re pushing both the design of the green roof and the design of the golf course in new directions.?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????????? The compound should be complete in 2012. Fore!
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