Stay on top of the Greenroof & Greenwall World by subscribing here: http://bit.ly/1HAbujW. Providing an opportunity to bring cultural ideas and beliefs together to celebrate the spirit of Korea in the 21st century, the 667-acre Administrative Complex Sejong is Korea’s newest city. The complex is now home to 37 government organizations and 13,000 public servants who were previously located in or near Seoul. With a framework of eight levels above ground and one below, the structure totals 3.5 kilometers long - perhaps the longest in the world. In 2007 Balmori Associates won the competition to design the Master Plan for Sejong City and designed it in collaboration with H Associates and Haeahn Architecture. Balmori Associates says, "We proposed a new approach to city-making, one that starts with landscape architecture. The master plan consists of a continuous linear park on a continuous roof joining all the ministries.” Dictated by the contours of the land that were once hilly but now flattened to make way for as many as 500,000 future residents, a grid of streets and transit runs through the center of the city within a network of green spaces. The connected buildings were designed to look like an Oriental dragon in flight from above and the superstructure on top contains a variety of planted sloping walkways, wide-open expanses, ramps, and corridors - with the government offices below. Three interconnected urban strategies were proposed: FLAT CITY, LINK CITY, and ZERO WASTE CITY. The beautiful greenroof equals 28 acres and the pitches vary considerably, allowing it to slope down to the ground in pedestrian-friendly inclines. Click here: http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/pview.php?id=1715 to see more information about this project in The International Greenroof & Greenwall Projects Database http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/. Did we miss your contribution? Please let us know to add you to the profile. Would you like one of your projects to be featured? We have to have a profile first! Submit Your Project Profile http://www.greenroofs.com/submit_a_project.htm. Our 1,600th profile added to the Projects Database, Sejong City is Greenroofs.com's Project of the Week in honor of its designer, Dr. Diana Balmori, who is one of the Keynotes for the Greenroofs & Walls of the World Virtual Summit 2015. Enjoy Diana's 10 minute video "Green Roofs to New Cities" for an exclusive look into this mega project, among others, now playing though May 31, 2015 – last chance! http://www.greenroofs.com/virtualsummit/virtualsummit-registration.htm

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