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on carts and wheeling them to the office window. Then we handed
off the paks to the indoor team, threading them one by one through
the window to be loaded onto other hand trucks, down a small back
elevator, to the street level where we had box trucks waiting. As the
trucks filled, they sped off through the slushy rain to their destinations - some just a few blocks away to Starrett Lehigh, and the rest
to West 57th Street, up another small elevator, and out through the
office to three terraces at the new Cook Fox headquarters.
The whole move took two long days, 22 people, two trucks, and
a whole lot of planning and cleanup. It was a fun exercise calculating the necessary resources prior to the move, estimating the time,
people, elevator trips, hand trucks, and moving vans that we'd need,
not to mention the square feet of drop cloth we'd use to protect the
office floors and elevator from all the mud. Our Director of Design/
Build, Cecide Corral, spent days organizing people and ordering
materials, and she and I sat together for an hour just plotting out the
routes between elevators, the number of bags we could move per
hour, and how many people we'd need at each station along the way.
On the other side of town, Cook Fox was assessing their green paks,

marking them, and planning
out how to integrate them into
the design for their new site. I
can attest that both of our plans
worked - the job was muddy,
but otherwise smooth, and the
resulting garden is a thing of
biophilic beauty.
I've changed my mind about
modular green roofs - they
work, and they're easier to move
than a conventional green roof
that would have to be shoveled
bag-by-bag. There were 979
green paks total, and they held
up remarkably well considering they were getting tossed
through windows, stacked
onto carts and piled in trucks.

Aside from a little growing
media spillage, they performed
beautifully, as designed, and they
continue to perform amazingly
well in their new home on West
57th Street, where we spruced
them up with some additional
media and a heavy dose of native
wildflower seed.
By June that year, the garden
looked like a well-established
meadow, as if it had been there
forever. Who knows if it will
remain there forever-maybe
it will move again in ten years.
We'll take the job again if we
get the call, and hope that next
time it's not in December.

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