Campos Plaza The Campos Plaza landscape serves the residents of its 269 apartments and acts as a public park, playground and playing field for the surrounding neighborhood in the Lower Far East Side of Manhattan. JPLA developed the site plan and design for a central plaza, building entries, and perimeter streetscape including paving, planting, seating, a…
NYU LMC Alumni Courtyard The Alumni Courtyard is the center of the academic wing of the NYU Langone Medical Center campus. JPLA designed this courtyard as a plaza that is open and flexible, accommodating events, lectures, work sessions, casual dining and everyday campus life. The courtyard will serve the student cafe in Smilow, the newly renovated library…
NYU LMC Science Building The Science Building is a LEED Platinum research facility located on the NYU Langone Medical Center Campus in Manhattan. The project utilizes the 14,000 SF roof space to restore native habitat and connect fragmented ecosystem corridors along the waterfront. The native green roof supports a diversity of native micro-climates while relying…
Stuart’s Garden This 800 sf Brooklyn townhouse garden is framed by the large picture windows in the clients’ living room. The curvature of the shapes in the garden draw one’s eye into and through the space. A large paved area of exterior concrete terrazzo with hand ground aggregate forms a central gathering space. Beyond this, an…
Henry Street This residential rear terrace and garden for a newly constructed townhouse is located in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill Historic District. JPLA’s design consists of solid quartzite garden stairs, linear benches, paving and custom grille counter. Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Project Status: Completed Client: Undisclosed Collaborators: CWB Architects
The Arch at Bedford Union Armory Rooftop Landscape & Viewing Gardens This multi-family residential building in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn features a 12,000 sf rooftop terrace on the 16th floor and two 4,000 sf viewing gardens on the ground level. The Arch includes a combination of affordable and market rate residences as part…
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.…
Bronxchester NYCHA Housing Portfolio The Bronxchester landscape serves the residents of its 207 apartments as well as BronxWorks, a community-building program for all ages. JPLA’s site design strategies were to strengthen the outer perimeter, soften the spaces within the site, and to increase the variety and quality of the landscape spaces within the site. The…
Morris Avenue School – PS-469X As part of the development of a new NYC public school in the Bronx, the landscape design at 355 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 a series of SCA-compliant spaces that…
Tree ID Mapping at Penn South MRH As a part of the “Community Outreach” component of the Ecological Stewardship initiative for Penn South Mutual Redevelopment Houses, JPLA has launched a tree labeling and ID initiative. Over the course of 2021-2022 every tree on campus has been identified and noted on the site’s baseplan. The updated…
