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Tour Description: This 3-hour tour will cover the following sites in the Boston Area: 29 Garden Street, 60 Oxford Street, and Life Sciences and Laboratories.   

The Harvard Tour comprises both extensive and intensive green roof applications utilizing several kinds of roof systems, landscape designs, functionalities and aesthetics. We will take a look at roofs which have been built over garage, laboratory and library spaces. The plan is to provide a tour which highlights both private and somewhat public spaces; we hope to have the designers of some of these spaces, together with roof, soil and plant experts. Time is planned also for some refreshments either in or nearby Harvard Square.

Site 1: 29 Garden Street

Photos courtesy of Jeff Licht

Site 2: 60 Oxford Street

Photo courtesy of Jeff Licht

Site 3:  Life Sciences and Laboratories

Photo courtesy of Jeff Licht

Site 1:  4 Cambridge Center

Photo courtesy of Jeff Licht

Site 1:  The first location is the Prudential Center: Shaws Roof Garden, where weight constraints were a serious challenge to design and public access. The photo below is an image of the private garden for the residential tower.

Image of the private garden for the residential tower.  The background area had serious weight constraints, and is inaccessible to pedestrians. This area is intended to be a viewing garden from the small area of useable garden and from the residential tower. Photo courtesy of Halvorson Design Partnership

Image of the useable portion of the garden. Photo courtesy of Halvorson Design Partnership

Site 2: The tour will conclude at the Howard Ulfelder MD Healing Garden, an eighth floor roof garden oasis for patients, staff and visitors.

A panoramic view of the Healing Garden in progress. Photo courtesy of Halvorson Design Partnership

A finished view of the Healing Garden. Photo courtesy of Halvorson Design Partnership

Tour Description: Millennium Park, on the banks of the Charles River in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood, was built using excess fill from the Big Dig to cap the former Gardner Street municipal landfill, eliminating leachate intrusion into the river, capturing landfill gas, and reclaiming 97+ acres for playing fields and natural habitat. Come join the engineers from Camp Dresser and Mckee (CDM) who built the park and are sponsoring the tour, for a look at this highly successful project and see beautiful vistas, restored habitat and innovative technologies. Wear good walking shoes, bring your camera and bird books! 

Tour Description: The Arnold Arboretum is a City of Boston Park under the care of Harvard University.  The Arboretum is a living museum of 265 acres with 4,500 species of hardy trees, shrubs and vines in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston.  This area is one of the finest jewels in the famous "Emerald Necklace," the 7-mile-long network of parks and parkways that Frederick Law Olmsted laid out for the Boston Parks Department between 1878 and 1892.  Early/mid-May features beautiful flowering trees and shrubs including 250 varieties of lilac, the second largest collection in the U.S.  Join us for a guided tour and please take a moment to visit the website beforehand at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

Boston Common & Massachusetts State House - photograph by TunnelSlats

Boston Public Garden and Swan Boats

Tour Description: Post Office Square Park – one of America’s most popular and honored green roof projects – was designed 15 years ago by Boston’s Halvorson Design Partnership. Join Halvorson landscape architects for a subway-and-walking tour of Post Office Square and four other Halvorson projects: the new Federal Reserve Bank plaza, South Boston’s Seaport Hotel and Eastport Park, all of which are intensive green roof designs, and South Boston Maritime Park, winner of a 2006 Honor Award from the ASLA. Project designers will meet the tour at each site to describe the process and answer your questions. 


Site 1: Norman B. Leventhal Park at Post Office Square. A 1.7 acre park sitting atop seven stories of underground parking in the heart of Boston’s Financial District. 

Aerial View of Post Office Square.

Site 2: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Adjacent to South Station and the new Central Artery, the Federal Reserve sought a new look for its over-deck plazas, as well as improved security that retains a welcoming character.

Construction is nearly complete on a comprehensive redesign of the entire site surrounding the metal-clad bank headquarters building, one of Boston’s most striking contemporary structures. Much of the area, including the new civic-oriented plaza in front, is a new intensive green roof over existing underground portions of the building.

Site 3: Seaport Hotel Entrance Plaza. The main entrance of the hotel, at the heart of the revitalizing South Boston Waterfront, is located on a deck that provides viaduct-level access to the adjacent Boston World Trade Center conference facility.

Seaport Hotel’s entrance plaza includes a vehicular drop-off and garden areas for use by hotel guests and small events.

Site 4: Eastport Park. Also part of the World Trade Center redevelopment area, this park sits on a parking garage and reflects extensive collaboration between the landscape architects and environmental artists. 

One-half of the new city block that houses the high-rise WTC East Office Building is dedicated to a publicly accessible park. Featuring customized paving, lush planting and extensive environmental art, Eastport Park was the first green roof park in the waterfront district.

Site 5: South Boston Maritime Park. Across the street from Eastport Park, this award-winning park was also a collaborative design involving landscape architects, architects and artists. While not a rooftop project it incorporates many sustainable design features.

This view from the adjacent Manulife office building shows the relation of Eastport Park in the background and South Boston Maritime Park in the foreground. The historic Fish Pier is just visible at the upper right.

Tour Description: The first stop of this tour is the Central Artery Tunnel Project Headquarters, located at 185 Kneeland Street, where delegates will view a brief  presentation.  A short walk up the alignment to the State Street and Hanover Street sites (pictured below) will follow. 

View of Hanover Street looking North

View of State Street Looking South

Tour Description: This 3-hour tour will take visitors through the rapidly developing South Boston Seaport district and a diverse collection of high profile green roof installations including: the World Trade Center West Podium Park, Seaport Hotel Garden, East Office Building Winter Garden, East Port Park, South Boston Water Front Park and concluding at 12 floor roof terrace of Manulife Financial’s North American Headquarters. This tour features several award winning extensive and intensive green roof installations ranging from intensive gardens and landscapes constructed over below and above ground parking structures, to interior gardens and extensive roof top systems. Both client representatives and members of the design and installation teams will be on hand to guide the discussion at several sites.

This tour will depart from the Conference Center at 2:00 PM and travel by MBTA Subway to the South Boston Seaport. All green roof sites are within a short walking distance of the MBTA Subway Station.

Tour Itinerary
2:00 Depart Conference Group Meeting Site 45 min.
Travel by MBTA [Green to Red to Silver Line]

2:45 World Trade Center West Podium Park & Seaport Hotel Garden20 min.
Walk thru Seaport Hotel

3:05 MassPort Overview 20 min.
Walk thru East Office Building and Winter Garden

3:25 East Port Park and South Boston Water Front Park 35 min.
Walk across street

4:00 Manulife Financial 45 min.

4:45 End Tour
Depart by MBTA Subway for Conference

6:00 Mayor Menino’s Reception