KEN SMITH WORKSHOP
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE URBANISM ART
 The Milan, New York, NY
Start Date: 2003 Completion Date: 2004 World Wide Holdings, Client SLCE Architects, Architect V Studio, Architect Walker Group/CNI, Architect Peter Mauss / ESTO, Photography An interior courtyard designed for a high-rise residential building in Manhattan. The garden features a folded topiary wall fabricated of stainless steel frames and expanded steel mesh, which is covered with English ivy. An off-center pathway leads from the lobby of the building out to a folded metal staircase of diamond tread-plate that steps up into an elevated terrace of Bamboo. Along the way, residents pass across two aluminum stained wood steps that separate the garden into two broad paved terraces. The folding and torquing of the topiary panels provide both screen and separation from the neighboring houses and perspectivally create a sense of greater garden depth and size. The garden is furnished simply with classic modern Richard Schultz lounge chairs and minimalist concrete flower planters.

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