Kaiser Roof Garden
Kaiser Center
Oakland, California
Designed by Osmundson & Staley
- Theodore Osmundson, Roof Gardens: History, Design, and Construction (1999)
Inspired by the rooftop garden at Rockefeller Center in New York City, industrialist Henry Kaiser hired the landscape architecture firm of Osmundson & Staley to design a garden atop the parking garage next to his company鈥檚 headquarters in downtown Oakland, California.
The garden opened in 1960 as the first 鈥渢rue鈥� post-World War II rooftop garden in the U.S. The garden鈥檚 hardscape incorporated materials such as aluminum and cement made by Kaiser Industries for many of its large-scale projects around the world. Today, many of those hardscape elements are aging. Furthermore, the addition of taller adjacent buildings since the roof top鈥檚 completion, has altered the environmental conditions in which the garden was designed. more...
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