| Show TO PLANT GARDENS ABOVE RADIO CITY roofs to be landscaped at cost of 18 millions N new e w york yorktee the rockefeller ciata ests have revealed details detail of the plans for transforming the roots roofs and to tor r races of the ten tea structures in the th radio city here into what la is intended to be a modern equivalent of the hanging gardens of babylon to include e illuminated waterfalls and brome promenades nades among tall trees treat planted far above the street the largest of the first three aults will be a CO story office skyscraper with 10 story wing to take up more men than half of the center block in the tee area bounded by fifth and sixth ave T forty eighth and fifty first streets tt reeta this unit will have hav a total floor space of square feet feat about feet more than Is 0 ba tanned in the empire state bull dinc about ready to start the second will be the international music ic hall planned for the west kalf halt of the block between fiftieth and ana iff imf ty first streets with a 31 atory efface building flanking it on the aba sixta avenue nu frontage the third unit la Is a sound motion p picture theater for fer the libe west part of the block between top berty eighth and forty ninth streets excavation work on the sit altea of t those structures Is well advanced advance aai construction will start this fall die A theaters are scheduled to be by october 1 1032 and ana the coee building the following spring fuu tor for seven other buildings have hare boss eft drawn A large area in the lever block has been left for possible at e by the metropolitan opera for a new opera house bouse which negotiations still are the garden plans plane call tor for ST acres of landscaping with waterfall fountains pools trees formal flower beds and statuary plans for dovw las ing the outer walls of the build lew with avith a lacework of living ivy also alee as ace a tentative part of the beautification program A curved waterfall an acre of ground space will be given av over er to a sunken plasa ahk a 50 foot fountain in the center ike se rockefeller interests estimated estimate fisit more than worth of at teal mad will be left open for and between and floo N will be spent on landscaping forty feet above the root roof of ef the ike ift 16 story wing of the center kl leac will be a curved waterfall a ifft W foot spillway and cascades ending la in a reflecting pool about 80 by so 15 mol let on n the root roof thirty foot trees a am other landscaping will form its background two levels of landscaping are an planned above the studios of tie notional national broadcasting company to in Us ike lower lover roof areas between the main J building and the main east wall of f the 16 story wing they will be connected by stairways stairway and will resemble a formal gardea on some suburban estate on the north side of the music in aam and south side of the sound theater there will be 80 foot hedges of et beeh hemlock and linden trees the remainder of these roofs will be devoted to formal gardens tron tree ri 1 ing to r r height of 30 and 35 feet wal be a part of the general scheme hesie sc |
