Green roof will be soothing to new moms

A green roof will grace the new Anderson Medical Center cardiology building going up at the Boulder Community Hospital Foothills campus in East Boulder.

Native grasses will be planted on top of the 46,000-square-foot, two-story building at 4747 Arapahoe Ave. It’s slated to open in December 2012.

New moms will see all that green in their movie-screen views of the Flatirons out the west windows, rather than gazing out at an industrial-looking roof, said Nick Rehnberg, the architect who came up with the idea. The new building will be situated in front of the existing third-story maternity ward.

The environmentally friendly roof…