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Press: Nice picture. Pape and his sedum roof.

Posted April 14th, 2008 by director
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By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Published Monday, April 14, 2008

Columbia has its first green roof. Stephanie Lyons and Brian Pape are remodeling the old Diggs Packing plant into artists’ studios and loft apartments. Atop the roof, sedum is growing.

Architect Pape has designed all the green elements he can come up with into the building, but surely the most intriguing is the live plants on the roof.

FRONT PAGE Press: "Green grows the new roof in a city first"

Posted November 1st, 2007 by director
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Green grows the new roof in a city first

Sedum spruces up redeveloped mule barn.

By KAT HUGHES of the Tribune’s staff

Published Thursday, November 1, 2007

Parker Eshelman photo Below, Eric Wesbury, left, and other workers install a LiveRoof system on top of the former Wright Brothers’ Mule Barn, which Columbia architect Brian Pape is redeveloping as the Warehouse Studios and Fay Street Lofts. The workers mount containers of sedum plants, above, on a reinforced roof that are intended to help cool the building and reduce runoff.

Four-hundred-fifty boxes filled with sprigs of red, yellow and green plants made history yesterday when a crane lifted them on top of the former Wright Brothers’ Mule Barn, making it Columbia’s first commercial building to boast a living green roof.

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