KEN SMITH WORKSHOP
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE URBANISM ART
 Roof Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Start Date: 2002 Completion Date: 2005 Museum of Modern Art, Client Yoshio Taniguchi, Architect Kohn Pederson Fox, Architect Peter Mauss / ESTO, Photography Ken Smith designed this art-oriented roof garden for the new Taniguchi-designed addition to the museum. The design of the roof garden appropriates the visual vocabulary of military camouflage to create a garden that simultaneously disguises the roof while making it highly visible. The design also provides commentary on the nature of landscape with its manipulation of scale and use of natural and simulated materials. The material palette includes recycled rubber chips, crushed glass, crushed marble stone, artificial boulders and artificial boxwood shrubs.
A Rooftop Garden With Synthetic Green, The New York Times, November 11, 2004

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