Tres Puentes Bronx, NY currently in construction Tres Puentes is a new 118 unit building serving low-income seniors, located at 285 East 138th Street, Bronx NY. The project includes the West building, with 56 units and East building that includes a new Community Senior Center. The new building and landscapes fulfill the guidelines of Enterprise Green Communities and NYC Active Design, with a…
Campos Plaza NYCHA HOUSING PORTFOLIO New York, NY 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…
Stuart’s Garden Brooklyn, NY 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…
The Arch at Bedford Union Armory ROOFTOP LANDSCAPE & VIEWING GARDENS Brooklyn, NY 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…
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. CLIENT: Undisclosed COLLABORATORS: CWB Architects
Bronxchester NYCHA HOUSING PORTFOLIO Bronx, NY 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.…
NYCHA PACT ABM Audubon Houses, Bethune Gardens + Marshall Plaza Washington Heights, New York NYCHA PACT is a program that frees funding to allow for comprehensive repairs and renovations of public housing developments, while preserving tenant rights and ensuring permanently affordability. In this project, NYCHA PACT ABM, JPLA provided complete landscape design renovations for the…
Smith Residence Brooklyn, New York 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 that form paths for exploration. Locally sourced glacial boulders…
Kaufman Residence New York, NY 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…
Damon Garden Brooklyn, NY This 625 sf rear garden in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn is designed as a series of outside rooms furnished in exquisite natural materials. At the parlor level, an ipe wood deck creates a fluid entertainment space next to the house. Broad steps leading down from the deck allow comfortable access to a deck on…
