Showing Everything with Custom Outdoor Furniture
Williamsburg Neighbor
It is always flattering and fun when you do one project and the neighbor peeks over the fence and decides they want something similar. The neighbors are great friends, but do not want to the same garden, so despite a mirror layout we were tasked with creating something new – similar space, different execution. With […]
West Village with Grace
Grace Church is arguably one of the most beautiful buildings in the historic neighborhood of the West Village. Imagine our delight when we got a rooftop gig with a view of its faux Medieval tower. This was one of our first rooftop designs and the client is still with us today. We began as Potted […]
Green Roof with a View
This beautiful and vast rooftop garden with a stunning view of the Williamsburg Bridge and downtown Manhattan was the first green roof we ever designed. The apartment building was an old factory from the manufacturing era. The combination of extreme wind and a very large space presented a challenge to provide the client’s desire for […]
Heaven in Hell’s Kitchen
The historic neighborhood informed the design choices of this magnificent residential garden that extends the living space to twice the size of the interior apartment. The buildings in Hell’s Kitchen are capped at six stories. This garden, on the sixth floor, looks out over Hell’s Kitchen, but the adjacent neighborhoods tower above making you feel […]
Williamsburg Pergola Oasis
We first began designing this project in 2019 with the couple who lived in the building. By the end of 2019, the outdoor oasis was complete, and the couple had become a family. We love design stories like this, in which our projects must be multi-functional – seamlessly transitioning from playtime to cocktail hour. In […]
Yorkville High-rise Passive House
Rebecca Cole GROWs was awarded this design project in 2017. We were thrilled at the opportunity to work with the building architect’s, Arquitectonica, on designing and building green spaces to accompany the passive housing units. This all-inclusive passive housing development required that we meet specific standards of efficiency, making the greening of the rooftop, terrace, […]