Located in Vancouver, The Telus Garden is probably the most beautiful and more ambitious building in the city. It is so green that it won the title of “Leader in Energy Conservation and Environmental Design” a whole month before it was even opened. The building’s 1,000,000 square feet (92,900 sqm) is divided to 528,000 square feet of offices and retail space, and 450,000 square feet of residential space. The building will feature a communal fruit and vegetable garden, a rainwater collection system, and an energy system that will draw heat from the TELUS (telecom company) center, as well as a plethora of solar panels. The building will also feature an electric-car charging station, and three square kilometers (2 square miles) of gardens, with over 1,000 different species of plants.
