Word: roofing
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Despite assurances that the garden will be restored exactly as it is today, no guarantees can be given. It is false optimism to assume that the North Vista as a roof garden, which is what it will be, can ever have the same character or viability as it does today...
...footprint of the building as shown on the elegant concept drawings. Furthermore, underground buildings are notoriously high maintenance. We have only to observe the "state-of-the-art" Sackler Museum here in Washington, whose handsome Enid Haupt garden is constantly being dug up to repair leaks to the roof. There are other numerous examples of failed underground buildings...
Harvard bird watching has been spotty since October of 1996 when unknown pranksters stole the Ibis from the roof of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...