After 23 years, a rooftop garden opens at the VPL's Central Branch

By Saturday, Vancouverites will have a new public space downtown in the Central Library on West Georgia.
The library opens the newly renovated top two floors, which now includes a rooftop garden.
In the original design competition for the library building, architect Moshe Safdie imagined either a major public or private garden on the roof. But that never materialized, and the area became what was essentially a grassy green roof closed to the public.
For more than two decades after the library op