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2. Roof garden - Wikipedia

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   A roof garden has also been discovered around an audience hall in Roman-Byzantine Caesarea. [6] The medieval Egyptian city of Fustat had a number of high-rise buildings that Nasir Khusraw in the early 11th century described as rising up to 14 stories, with roof gardens on the top story complete with ox-drawn water wheels for irrigating them.

3. City Hall-County Building - Wikipedia

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   The city and county jointly sponsored an architectural competition that Holabird & Roche won by unanimous vote. [12] Construction of the county building (east wing) began in 1905, and by 1907 some county offices were already beginning to move in. [12] Construction of city hall (the west wing) was delayed until 1909 because the city had to wait for the State to increase its borrowing authority ...

4. Harold Washington Library - Wikipedia

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   The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 South State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi ...

5. Rooftop Garden Project - Wikipedia

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   A demonstration garden of 500m² was established on a rooftop near Burnside Hall on the McGill University campus. By 2006, Santropol Roulant was able to produce one-third (or one ton) of the food used in its program through this garden. The Rooftop Garden Project aims to promote local food production within the Montreal area.

6. File:Relief sculpture panel, Chicago City Hall, Chicago ...

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7. Lurie Garden - Wikipedia

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   The garden was an essential element of the park, as the motto of Chicago is Urbs in Horto, which is a Latin phrase meaning City in a Garden. [3] The Garden also pays tribute to Carl Sandburg 's moniker of Chicago as the "City of Big Shoulders" with a 15-foot (4.6 m) "shoulder" hedge that protects the perennial garden and encloses the park on ...