Take a trip up onto the Barclays Center's green roof, where sedum installation is over half complete
When The Architect’s Newspaper first visited the Barclays Center’s green roof, installation had just begun and there was only one strip of sedum running up the arena. Now, six weeks later, sedum covers more than 50 percent of the roof, and, without being too hyperbolic about things, it’s looking like a verdant hillside up there.
On a visit to the Barclays Center this week, Linda Chiarelli, Deputy Director of Construction for Forest City Ratner, told AN that the roof’s 135,000 square feet of sedum should all be in place by the end of July. The green plant is especially hardy and does not need an elaborate irrigation system. (There are four hose bibs on the roof just in case of a drought situation.)
The full green roof project, which requires some additional architectural and engineering work, is on track to wrap up in September. The three-acre space will not be open to the public, but rather is designed to absorb rainwater and keep excess noise from escaping the arena.
For much more on the Barclays Center‘s green roof, be sure to watch our video above, and to see where things stand today, check out the gallery below.
- The Barclays Center. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The crane that lifts the sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The long-stalled B2 tower is rising again. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The green roof from 6th Avenue. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Work underway at SHoP’s 38 6th Avenue. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The arena after a Barry Manilow concert. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Sedum arriving. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The new roof structure that sits above the arena’s original roof. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Talking with Linda Chiarelli, Deputy Director of Construction at Forest City Ratner. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Catwalk that leads to the roof. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The green roof with Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan beyond.
- Sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The sedum is hardy enough to walk on. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Roof structure and sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The green roof. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- A ladybug on the sedum. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- SHoP’s long-delayed B2 tower has resumed construction. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Work on B2. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Work underway to lower existing rail lines to accommodate a future rail yard cap at Pacific Park. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Installing panels. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Installing panels. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Equipment on the roof.(Chris Ryan / AN)
- Equipment on the roof. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- Catwalk above the arena. (Chris Ryan / AN)
- The green roof from above. (Courtesy Tom Kaminski, WCBS Chopper 880)
- (Courtesy Tom Kaminski, WCBS Chopper 880)