Landscape Architecture Rooftop Design

Langan Landscape Architects and Planners understand what makes places work. We shape effective design solutions that range from regional or city scale down to the most intimate courtyards and garden spaces. In every project we strive to identify and enhance the “sense of place,” which makes every site unique and memorable. This places us at the forefront of the rebirth of our cities and aging downtowns, guiding their revitalization as destinations where people live, work, shop and play.

Hotel Monaco

OVERVIEW
Langan provided full site/civil engineering and permitting services for the renovation of the landmark Lafayette Building, located in the prestigious Old City historic district, into a four-star Kimpton Monaco Hotel, restaurant and roof-top lounge. Langan landscape architects designed a rooftop garden featuring a large central planter with seating that serves as banquette seating and supports lush plantings.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying


111 Murray Street

OVERVIEW
Langan provided a variety of services for 111 Murray Street, a 64-story, 157-unit luxury condominium building in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood. The development features an outdoor public plaza and private amenities areas over structure at ground level directly off of Manhattan's West Side Highway. The 10,000-SF public plaza features a custom water feature, open lawn, sculpture, seating and extensive planting. These rooftop gardens are supported by a complex roof structure designed to accommodate the changes in grade and thicker soil profiles to support plant material. Langan served as the landscape architect of record for the project, preparing the detailed design of all rooftop components including planting, furnishings, decorative pavements and public plaza water feature. Langan also designed the support of excavation and obtained city agency approvals from DOB, DEP and City Planning.

Location
New York, NY

Client
Fisher Brothers

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Traditional Surveying

Architect
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, PC


Griffin Court

OVERVIEW
This eight-story luxury residential building is located in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan on a site with former industrial and commercial uses. The proposed building boasts an 11,000-SF bi-level rooftop garden for residents, along with ground-level retail and commercial space on three street frontages.  Nestled at the center of the site, the rooftop garden incorporates contemporary aspects of the building architecture and notable New York park references to create a unique experience for residents. Additionally, Langan provided a full range of design, engineering, and environmental services including the demolition of existing structures, removal of asbestos, underpinning of adjacent off-site structures, and streetscape and utility improvements.

Location
New York, NY

Client
Alchemy Properties, Inc.

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Environmental
Traditional Surveying

Architect
FXCollaborative


MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper – Rooftop Garden

OVERVIEW
Langan provided comprehensive planning, design and construction phase services for a 5,000-SF rooftop healing garden that will serve as a respite from the clinics and testing facilities. Custom designed planting beds will minimize rooftop loading while providing a healthy growing environment for the plants.  A thoughtfully designed drainage system will conduct water to roof drains below the paving and planting areas. The project includes a significant amount of sustainable design elements and features the use and interpretation of plants that have been used in the fight against cancer.
AWARDS
USGBC NJ Emerald Award – Urban Green Project

Location
Camden, NJ

Client
Cooper University Hospital

Service
Landscape Architecture


225 East 39th Street

OVERVIEW
Langan provided a variety of services for 225 East 39th Street, a 37-story, 372-unit luxury apartment building located a few blocks from Grand Central Station.  The development includes outdoor amenity spaces at the 1st, 2nd and 35th floor levels and a drop-off driveway connecting two street frontages with access to below grade parking. The 1st floor plaza serves as an extension of the interior lobby with decorative paving and planters that mimic the interior floor patterns. The 2nd floor rooftop garden provides active and passive recreation opportunities including playground equipment, bocce court, shuffle board and lawn area with seating. The 35th floor rooftop features a custom outdoor fire pit and seating area, spa, kitchens with private seating areas. Langan served as the landscape architect of record for the project, preparing the detailed design of all amenity rooftop components including planting, furnishings, decorative pavements and green screens. Langan also designed the support of excavation and obtained city agency approvals from DOB, DEP and FDNY.

Location
New York, NY

Client
Fisher Brothers

Services
Landscape Architecture
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Traditional Surveying

Architect
Handel Architects, LLP


Centroverde at Montclair

OVERVIEW
Langan is the engineer for the design and construction inspection of this mixed-use project in the heart of Montclair. Phase 1 of the development includes two, six-story mixed-use buildings, totaling 306,000 SF. The 25,000-SF ground floor of building one will be entirely office, with 138 apartments on the upper floors. Building two will consist of 27,500 SF of retail space on the first floor and 124 apartment units above. Both buildings will have amenity space and open landscaped courtyards with seating and grilling areas. The upper roof of building two will contain a green roof section with a full kitchen. Phase 2 includes an approximate 100,000-SF hotel with 100 rooms with a restaurant, amenities and conference room space.

Location
Montclair, NJ

Client
LCOR

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Lessard Design


Oosten Condominium (429 Kent Avenue)

OVERVIEW
Langan provided multiple design and construction administration services for this new eight-story, 500,000-GSF condominium that encompasses an entire block along the South Williamsburg waterfront. Langan's landscape design services included designs for ground level planting and three levels of rooftop amenity space. Our environmental engineers established a Remedial Action Plan (RAP) and Construction Health and Safety Plan (CHASP) to remediate approximately 95,000 SF of property. Langan's geotechnical staff completed a subsurface investigation, seismic evaluations, and provided recommendations for foundation design and construction. Site/civil engineering services included full engineering sets from schematic to final bid documents.

Location
Brooklyn, NY

Clients
R Black Global
XIN Development

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental
Landscape Architecture

Architects
Piet Boon
WASA/Studio A

Strategic Partner
Wexler Associates


Washington First Plaza

OVERVIEW
Langan provided landscape, site/civil engineering, and urban design services for the residential redevelopment on a brownfield site in downtown Jersey City. The project features a linear urban park, streetscape and a roof terrace in conjunction with a 33-story multi-use tower. A common materials palette of brick, granite and steel is utilized throughout the project that lends a Lower Manhattan ambiance to the designed spaces.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
The Athena Group, LLC

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Environmental
Geotechnical

Architect
SLCE Architects


Queens Plaza – Dutch Kills Green

OVERVIEW
Langan provided multi-disciplinary services in the areas of urban design, streetscape, site/civil, environmental and traffic engineering and NEPA review services for a bicycle and pedestrian improvement project at Queens Plaza. The plaza is the gateway connecting the Queensboro Bridge to Long Island City and is a highly traveled area. Langan prepared site engineering drawings that consisted of grading, drainage, utility, builders pavement plans, roadway profiles, signing, striping, traffic signal, and maintenance and protection of traffic (MPT). At the start of the project, Langan worked with the multi-disciplinary design team to develop the concept of ‘the blue thread’, a system of interconnected urban wetlands that would filter runoff water from the Queensboro Bridge and the elevated railway structures.

Location
Long Island City, NY

Clients
NYC Economic Development Corporation
NYC Department of City Planning

Services
Site/Civil
Environmental
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying

Strategic Partners
Wallace, Roberts & Todd
Margie Ruddick Landscape


Octagon Park Apartments

OVERVIEW
Langan provided landscape, site architecture, site/civil engineering and urban design services for the redevelopment of an historic Roosevelt Island hospital complex as a luxury residential development. Langan designed the adjacent streetscapes, waterfront esplanade and a 2-acre eco-park with a geothermal sculpture garden. The landscape concept was to create a blend of old and new New York, incorporating native and horticultural plant species with traditional paving, seating and lighting elements in a contemporary and artful manner.

AWARDS
LEED Silver Certification

Location
Roosevelt Island, NY

Client
Octagon Development, LLC

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil

Architect
Becker & Becker Associates


The Jefferson

OVERVIEW
The Jefferson is located on a 6-acre lot in Bergen County, NJ. The site is a former Bergen County owned Department of Public Works facility and currently contains several existing unoccupied buildings and asphalt parking lots. Once completed, the residential building will be four-stories high, containing 377 apartments, over a two-level podium parking. An additional 2-levels of residential units are proposed at the ground level wrapping the parking structure on the west and north sides. The Jefferson boasts approximately 56,000 total SF of rooftop amenity space, spread out over five distinct courtyards, and all on the 3rd floor above the podium parking.

Location
Hackensack, NJ

Client
Garden Commercial Properties

Services
Landscape Architecture
Geotechnical
Natural Resources & Permitting

Architect
Minno Wasko Architects and Planners


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