Bethune Gardens NYCHA Housing Portfolio Bethune Gardens is a landscape designed in the spirit of its namesake: Mary McLeod Bethune, who spent her life building institutions, nurturing communities, and insisting that Black women and girls had the right to education, dignity, and opportunity. Bethune Gardens’ design reflects the belief that these communities deserve outdoor spaces…
Audubon Houses NYCHA Housing Portfolio The landscape renovation at Audubon Houses transforms a once-overlooked and unkempt residential open space into a vibrant, nature-forward outdoor environment that honors both its namesake and the community it serves. Named for the Audubon Society — founded in 1896 to protect birds from mass slaughter and now a cornerstone of…
Fischer Senior Apartments Located on a dramatically-sloped site in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, the Fischer Senior Apartments proposes 105 new units of affordable housing for seniors and a health clinic to a difficult to develop city-owned site that was once envisioned to be a park, but which was left unused for many decades.…
Marshall Plaza NYCHA Housing Portfolio Marshall Plaza is a New York City Housing Authority residential campus located in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The landscape renovation was designed by Joanna Pertz Landscape Architects as part of the NYCHA PACT program. Marshall Plaza’s design draws on the legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall — a man who believed that…
Morris Avenue School – PS-469X As part of the development of P.S. 469X, a new NYC public school at 2355 Morris Avenue in the Bronx, the landscape design at 2355 Morris Avenue transforms previously underutilized exterior areas into a cohesive network of outdoor learning and play environments. Working closely with the architectural team, JPLA created…
