This wrap-around roof garden in the West Village features a 15’x30′ custom-built planter made out of red cedar and filled with a lush mix of evergreens and flowers. Plantings include boxwoods, spiral junipers, alberta spruces, and gold mop cypresses. The challenges we faced in the design of this 6th floor pre-war rooftop garden were weight …
This rooftop garden landscape design NYC is located in Manhattan’s West Village. The garden features custom fencing with built-in lighting, ipe (pronounced e-pay) planter boxes, deck tiles, a shade sail, and black fiberglass planters. Container plantings for this NYC terrace design include bamboo, ornamental grasses, hydrangea trees, purple coneflower, weigela, creeping Jenny, and heathers. Ipe …
It’s amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do for a space! When I first saw this roof deck on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, it had a lot of very weathered looking existing wood with rotting boards in some places. After replacing the rotted boards and giving all of the existing wood a good …
This custom-built Brooklyn Heights roof deck features amazing views of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline. We wanted the garden to feel like a lush little sanctuary with lots of warm wood tones, a jacuzzi, privacy screens, and gorgeous ceramic pots. We mixed loose Mexican beach stones in with the decking around the jacuzzi for …
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This Upper East Side Manhattan roof deck features limestone-clad planters and a matching limestone patio floor. Custom-built benches run along one perimeter, backed by white Himalayan multi-stem birch trees. Having cushions custom made for these benches really makes them cozy and inviting looking. The glass perimeter fencing allows for unobstructed views of the city skyline. …
Living in a big city has a lot of advantages – it’s urban, you have easy access to almost everything you need – education, work, shopping, entertainment, etc. For the most part, city life is amazing! However, living in urban area brings you more noise, many people on the streets, and most importantly – pollution. …
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Check out the spectacular views on this Brooklyn rooftop garden! Our design included a total makeover of a previously barren space, including replacing the dingy looking concrete pavers with ipe wood deck tiles. We also designed a custom L-shaped ipe bench with seats that lift up for storage and planters filled with soft grasses built …
This TriBeCa roof garden design is bursting with color, abundance, textures, and layers! Our design included low-maintenance greenroof trays, a metal pergola, and lush plantings in black fiberglass planters. We also included a brown bamboo fence to help cover a less attractive existing fence. Plantings include white birch trees, blue junipers, variegated euonymus, ornamental grasses, …
Check out the amazing skyline views from this roof deck in Brooklyn heights. We chose hardy, low maintenance plantings that would complement the view, rather than compete with it. Our design included a mix of high contrast black and white planters in a mix of straight lines and round shapes. The plantings can all withstand …
This contemporary rooftop garden in Manhattan’s Battery Park City is big on style and features artificial turf, white fiberglass planters, horizontal wood fencing, a cabana, and shade sail canopies. It also has a spectacular view of the Statue of Liberty and the New York harbor. The outdoor kitchen was custom-built to fit the space and …
