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.…
Tres Puentes 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 sustainable design that promotes active…
Damon Garden 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 the garden…
Tidal Garden This 1,200 sf garden in Brooklyn was created as a place to play. The family has three small children and the garden is a place where the ground feels organic and fluid, as it rolls and pitches around one-ton boulders into a central swale. A water source near the back of the garden…
Coney Island Head Start Center Coney Island Head Start School is a new 35,000 sf building serving low-income pre-school children. The construction was funded by FEMA to replace the previous building that was damaged in Super Storm Sandy. The new design meets all the Head Start Design Directives and integrates green space at each level of the building.…
Tisch Courtyard NYU LMC Planting Design JPLA completed the planting design for this 23,000 sf courtyard landscape at NYU Langone Medical Center as a link to several other landscapes within the medical campus that JPLA designed. The Tisch Courtyard landscape includes on-grade planting, intensive green roof planting, and over-sized planters designed after those at the…
The Chateau Garden The Chateau Garden is a historic “garden-city” co-op development built in the early 1920s in Jackson Heights, Queens. Little investment in the site’s aging paths and drains had resulted in flooding and damage to foundations. Additionally the Mature American Elms have transformed Chateau’s character from a sunny formal garden to a shady…
Maternity Hospital Landscape This Hospital campus expansion included a comprehensive landscape design for the renovation of the existing Hospital’s labor and delivery center. The landscape surrounding the hospital incorporates a new entry drive and turnaround, entrance plazas at two levels, as well a hospital courtyard and roof garden. The larger landscape incorporates walking paths with…
Inwood Waterfront Parks Proposal Bringing People to the Water Our team vision for the creation of two new waterfront parks, Academy Street Waterfront and North Cove Shoreline, will anchor the rezoning efforts to revitalize this industrial neighborhood and bring the Inwood community together to celebrate, to discover, and to respect their local waterfront. Park Experiences…
