Show TO PLANT GARDENS ABOVE RADIO CITY roofs to be landscaped at cost of 18 millions new york the rockefeller interests have revealed details ot of the plans f 0 or r transforming the roots roofs and terraces of the ten structures I 1 in the radio city here into what Is intended to be a modern equivalent of the hanging gardens of babylon to include illuminated waterfalls and promenades among tall trees planted far above the street the largest of the first three units will be a GG CG story office skyscraper with 10 story wing to take up more than halt half of the center block in the area bounded by fifth and sixth avenues folly eighth and fifty first streets tills this unit will have a total floor space of square feet about feet more than Is contained in the E empire state building about ready to start the secord will be the international music halt half planned for the west half of the block between FItt fiftieth leth and first streets with a 31 story office flanking it on the sixth ave vue due frontage the third unit la Is a sound motion picture theater for tho the west part of the block between forty eighth and forty ninth streets excavation work on the sites of those structures Is well advanced and construction will start this fall the theaters are scheduled to be finished by 1 1032 and the office building the following spring plans for seven other buildings have been drawn A large itria area in the alie lower block has been left for possible use by the metropolitan opera c company om pany for a new opera house concerning which negotiations still are pending the atje garden plans call tor for seven seres acres of landscaping with waterfalls foun fountains poo pools I 1 s trees formal flower beas heds sad and statuary plans OF foy coyer caye lag ing tha outer walls of the building with a lacework of 0 jay ay also are a tentative part of the program A curved waterfall an 4 acre of ground space will be given over 0 o A a sunken plaza with a 30 foot foun fountain tala P a tae e center the rockefeller interests that spore than worth pf af land will be ba left open for beautification gad and between and wilt will be spent on landscaping forty feet above the roof pont of the me 18 16 story wing of the center building will be a curved waterfall with a VO 80 loot foot spillway abd cascades ending in a reflecting pool about 80 by 0 feet on an the roof thirty foot trees and other landscaping will form 10 ts back aroun ground d two levels of am planned above the llie studios of nf the national broadcasting company coin piny in the lower r roof 0 of incus areas between the main building and the main east wall of the 10 story wing they will be connected by stairways and will resemble a formal garden on some some suburban estate on the north side of the m u dc hall and south side of the sound theater there will be 30 foot hedges of beech hemlock and linden trees the remainder of these roofs will be devoted to formal gardens trees rising to a height of 30 and 35 feet will be a part of the general scheme |