Portland's vertical garden plan gets national attention
Plans to upgrade the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland include adding 250-foot-tall trellises with plants to a side of the building and an oversize roof to provide shade.
The application of "living architecture" isn't new. Plants that run up the side of buildings help with cooling and strategic use of rainwater keeps them green.
But the scale of the plans for Portland's federal building, which will undergo a $135 million remodel starting later this year, are making headlines.
Read this Associated Press report touting the "hanging gardens of Portland" in the Christian Science Monitor.
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