Year: 2024

Location: Columbia Street Waterfront District, Brooklyn

Scope: plant design, planting

Collaborators: Unicorn Builders (hardscape design and build)

A textured and colorful planting bursts from perimeter planters on a Brooklyn rooftop, defining multiple ‘rooms’ of seating and gathering areas.

The mix of sun-loving grasses and perennials includes clusters of eragrostis spectabilis, panicum virgatum, artemisia schmidtiana ‘Silver Mound’, rubus calycinoides, coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam,’ lavandula x intermedia ‘Sensational’, allium x ‘Millenium’, nepeta x faasenii ‘Walker’s Low’, salvia nemorosa ‘Bumblesnow’ and more.

Photos courtesy of Tim Waltman and Evan Joseph Studio