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CDL/G’s newest living roof project begins to take shape in Inwood, Manhattan

  • 13th May 201613/05/16

A giant Tetris game is underway in the northern Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood… CDL/G’s newest urban landscape will transform an existing parking garage rooftop into a communal courtyard and ecologically-aware green roof space for a three-building Co-Op complex. Integral to the design is an armature of boardwalks, bridges and islands, which pull back, forth and apart along a central axis. As the connective tissue of the garden, this decking arrangement maximizes spatial experiences for users and facilitates universal circulation to the various destination nodes while traversing an all-native green roof. Adding to the boardwalk’s aesthetic and functional attributes, its deck surface material will be Manchiché hardwood from an FSC-certified and community-managed rainforest mill operation in northern Guatemala, which practices reduced-impact logging and dedicates two-thirds of its overall concession to forest protection.


Stay tuned for further updates as this project comes to fruition over the next month.



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Contractors meticulously follow construction plans to piece together an interconnected series of hardwood boardwalks, bridges and islands.



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A series of puzzle-like framing structures starts to take shape and establish the underlying framework of the design.



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A 3-D rendering from a similar vantage point illustrating the eventual look and feel of the finished landscape.


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