Few people driving the ramps of the parking deck at Rush and Walton Streets in Chicago know of its verdant green roof. Visible from surrounding office and residential towers, the 16,000 square foot green roof by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects features five planting mixes in an irregular grid pattern. The lush vegetation includes everything from stonecrop to sedum, to chive and feather reed grass.

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This 8,160 square foot roof garden in Chicago, designed by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, is an after-school learning space. Under the guidance of a garden manager, kids use this urban agriculture roof to produce more than 1,000 pounds of organic produce each year. Colorful and graphic, it turns the typical working vegetable garden into a place of beauty and respite.

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The central Illinois town of Normal (yes, that is the actual name of the town) has a new roundabout that doubles as a living plaza where stormwater recycling, public space, and transportation work in unison. The Circle, designed by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, cleanses water collected from surrounding streetscapes through chemical-free filtration bogs and then returns it to the site in the form of a public water feature. Later, the water is recycled again to irrigate the adjacent streets.

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