If you live in a city like New York is quite normal to seek contact with nature, just as soon as the opportunity arises. And in New York, you have many opportunities to seize these opportunities, not only to Central Park, for example, there are also the Prospect Park, Bryant Park and Riverside Park.
Much less known is a real tropical jungle, hidden on East 43rd Street, also because this piece of forest is located within the Ford Foundation Building.
Built in 1967 by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, the building was designed as the headquarters of the Ford Foundation, the charitable humanitarian organization commissioned by Edsel and Herny Ford. Top twelve floors, built of glass and steel, you can think of the building as a huge tropical greenhouse. Continue reading “New York: The rainforest secret of Ford Foundation Building”