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Peachtree Corners greening up with high-tech

Peachtree Corners is now home to a modular, vegetation-covered formation or corolle (which means petal of a flower), the creation of French technology company Urban Canopee. COURTESY CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS

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Peachtree Corners is now home to a modular, vegetation-covered formation or corolle (which means petal of a flower), the creation of French technology company Urban Canopee. COURTESY CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS
By Karen Huppertz for the AJC
Oct 5, 2022

Peachtree Corners claims to be “the first place in the United States to receive an innovative and high-tech structure intended to cool down urban areas by greening them up.” The modular, vegetation-covered formation, corolle (which means petal of a flower), is the creation of French technology company Urban Canopee.

Peachtree Corners’ Town Center is also now home to a Mini Corolle, or Mini Canopee. This steel-covered fiberglass structure includes a mesh cylindrical, upward-and-outward-spreading canopy overlaid with climbing plants. When the plants mature, the Mini Canopee, equipped with its own irrigation system, will provide 215 square feet of shade to help create a cool place and provide additional biodiversity in Town Center.

Details about the latest innovative company joining the city’s Curiosity Lab: www.tinyurl.com/PTC-UrbanCanpoee.

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