With this project we were challenged to recreate the experience of a countryside home within the confines of a traditional Park Avenue Terrace. Designed by John Tinmouth Chang Architects, the penthouse had recently undergone a full gut-level renovation. Since the terrace is seen from every room, each view was treated as its own unique environment with a foreground planting designed to work with the city landscape beyond while still flowing together into a cohesive landscape. Just take the main bedroom view, with its line of Karl Forester grass with a row of Hyssop in the foreground to attract local pollinators and turn each morning into a scene of bucolic splendor. The low-maintenance planting is also designed for the owners to be able to care for the garden themselves.
Unprecedented for BD, our clients pitched in to load in pallets of soil (about 3 tons!), 250 perennials, trees and shrubs from the sidewalk through the building up to the roof.