Green roof party

Guests take a tour on the roof of the Berry Architecture & Associates building at 5218 Gaetz Ave. on Monday. The firm was hosting a green roof party, with guests able to relax three storeys above Gaetz Avenue amid such features as a running creek, a dry creek bed, indigenous plants and a raised vegetable planters, as well as habitat structures like a butterfly hibernaculum. The building was built to a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard using the skeleton of the old Red Deer Bowladrome.

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Guests take a tour on the roof of the Berry Architecture & Associates building at 5218 Gaetz Ave. on Monday.

The firm was hosting a green roof party, with guests able to relax three storeys above Gaetz Avenue amid such features as a running creek, a dry creek bed, indigenous plants and a raised vegetable planters, as well as habitat structures like a butterfly hibernaculum.

The building was built to a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard using the skeleton of the old Red Deer Bowladrome.

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