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A field waves on the Vancouver skyline

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / July 24

Vancouver has a secret rooftop garden -- under lock and key for now. Few people are aware of it. Fewer still have stepped inside, dragged a foot through the tall blue grass, soaked up the view or felt the surrounding calm. And yet the garden is big, almost the size of a football field, and it lies smack downtown, atop one of the city's most public and beloved buildings -- bustling Library Square (a.k.a. Central Library). Its purposeful concealment -- and the fact it's the creation of a living legend, 82-year-old landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander -- makes the secret garden the more mysterious. I had to see it.

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