JACKSON HEIGHTS
Planned with Garden City Movement ideals, this 100 year old development is made up of 14 residential buildings surrounding an interior courtyard which serves as a common backyard for all the residents of the complex. Hawthorne Court was a precursor to the better known Sunnyside Gardens, which was planned using tenets of the movement such as interior air circulation and access to open space and public transportation.
Our scope for this project included redesigning pathways and circulation within the garden and designing a new palette of naturalistic planting with four seasons of interest. As the trees and large shrubs mature, the garden will once again need to be re-imagined with new plantings for shade.