The Jeffrey L. Bruce Awards of Excellence winning Powderhouse intensive green roof in Somerville, MA illustrates the function and beauty of integrating nature and built form into design. The former elementary school - vacant for 15 years - was brought back to life by a team featuring Recover Green Roofs.

In Georgetown, the largest freestanding Green Wall in the Seattle area stands as a banner to community health in action, hiding an ugly concrete barrier. The Green Wall is not only a successful, sustainable structured landscape ‘intervention’ in its inherent functionality, but delivers benefits that satisfy the goals articulated in the participatory design process.