LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

URBANISM

ART

Start Date: 2005

Completion Date: 2006

Jim Conti, lighting design

Peter Mauss / ESTO, Photography

Viewing garden in a courtyard located between two post-war apartment buildings on Central Park South. Designed for varied perspectives, the garden can be experienced from a ground floor window-lined passage and rotunda space as well as from the apartment windows surrounding and looking down onto the garden.  A formal geometry of linear vine trellises, and a parterre of crushed stone, shredded rubber, glass marbles and shade tolerant evergreen ground covers play against the organic forms of existing trees to create a heightened sense of scale, depth and visual mystery.

Sited in the garden are sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, Chaim Gross and Michele Oka Doner.