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…
Campos Plaza NYCHA Housing Portfolio 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…
Stuart’s Garden This 800 square foot Brooklyn townhouse garden is framed by the large picture windows in the clients’ living room. The curvature of the shapes in the garden draws 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,…
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…
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…
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…
Smith Residence The design parti for this garden was a pair of nested forms. Directly adjacent to the house, a central paved area made of hand-ground exterior terrazzo is used as a flexible space for dining and playing. Framing this space is a large, grassy mound. The mound is planted with soft, undulating evergreen shrubs…
Kaufman Residence The design of this 1,200 sf private garden near Gramercy Park is structured around a curved pre-cast concrete retaining wall. The wall serves regulatory, aesthetic and structural purposes. It was placed to satisfy the required level-yard setback from the ground floor living space. It creates a beautiful enclosure to the space and its form is echoed in stainless steel rings set into the paving.…
