E22nd St Residential Roof Terrace E 22nd St Residential Roof Terrace The renovation of an existing residential building for staff at NYU Langone Medical Center. JPLA has designed a multi-use Rooftop Terrace space. Location: New York, NY, USA Project Status: Completed Client: NYU Langone Medical Center Collaborators: Rosenberg Kolb Architects
Private: Brooklyn Condominium Development This mixed use project includes a retrofit of an existing historic building as a community amenity and the addition of new affordable and market rate housing. The landscape spaces include two rooftop terraces, two courtyard spaces, both on structure, as well as entrance gardens at street level. The roof terraces include…
Private: Wyckoff Street A custom ipe wood fence creates a secluded enclosure around this front entry garden in the city. A simple, quiet space is enhanced through the use of sumptuous materials and textures. The pathway and walls are made of exterior terrazzo with hand-casted white marble aggregate. An edible garden is planted with kale, nasturtiums, artichokes and sage around a backbone of…
Park Place Residence This rear townhouse garden was designed for a textile artist using a soothing palette of soft grey tones. A concrete deck off the parlor level leads down to the garden with wide, shallow steel steps that allow for a journey into this long, narrow space. A two-foot tall clover mound rises to meet the deck…
Bronxchester Competition The Bronxchester Urban Redevelopment Concept Plan included four LEED certified buildings for a mix of low-income housing, commercial, and community facilities in the South Bronx. Large housing developments need a variety of flexible outdoor spaces to serve a diverse community and its many needs. We created spaces that appeal to residents of varying…
The John Street Competition Summit Garden John Street is a design competition for a new residential building located on the East River in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Our proposal is a rooftop garden, composed of mounded alpine meadows and wind-swept pines. It is a place for families, friends and individuals to sit, relax and watch the clouds pass overhead. The…
Private: Carlton Mews This residential condominium development, located in the heart of Fort Greene’s Historic District, was designed around a central Mews. The development includes the construction of five new townhouses and the adaptive reuse of an existing townhouse and two existing historic church structures. The project includes in total 15,000 sf of open space. The majority…
Private: Park Columbus This courtyard serves the 450 unit building located near Central Park, a newly-renovated, 83 unit residential condominium with a tower addition. The centerpiece of the residence is its 4,000 sf central garden. The garden was designed as a cloister within the residence. A covered walk passes alongside the garden to the gym and…
Atlantic Gardens Winner of the 2009 Building Brooklyn Award Atlantic Gardens, located at 525-541 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, NY, was developed as a mixed use, European-style retail hub. Five newly renovated ground-level retail spaces are connected by an expansive 6,000 sf garden oasis. There is a mix of retail on the ground level; a restaurant,…
Private: Rowayton Residence This seaside landscape was influenced by gardens of Japan. A cedar fence was inspired by Japanese privacy fences and screens. Evergreen shrubs and rocks are sculptural elements that play with relationships of scale and symbolism. A ‘stream’ of brown skipping rocks turned sideways flows amidst a ‘sea’ of pale grey beach pebbles, which outlets into the Farm…
