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500 Trees Planted on Behalf of 350 Bleeker Street

We recently had the pleasure of designing a Manhattan rooftop terrace located at 350 Bleeker Street. DeepStream Designs, the company responsible for the creation of the planters purchased for use on the outdoor property, donates 100 trees per item sold on behalf of their clients in an effort to reduce their carbon foot print. Thus, […]

French Houzz Article

CDL/S has been mentioned on the French version of the Houzz website. The article discusses how lighting is part of our daily life, especially in the summer months. It then goes on to reference CDL/S’s East Side Penthouse project. This roof garden demonstrates how illuminated cubes bring a soft and diffused lighting to take advantage […]

West Village Co-Op Rooftop Complete

he new project on Bleecker Street had it’s grand opening last week. Residents are now enjoying their spectacular 360 degree view of the city in a brand new garden. Although there were some setbacks with construction over the especially harsh winter, the past few months the CDL/S team has been pulling out the stops to […]

Ladurée, the Completed Tea Garden

We are pleased to present to you our reinvention of the outdoor patio space at Parisian tea room, Ladurée. The Soho location of world renowned eatery is located at 398 West Broadway, New York, NY, open Monday to Saturday from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm and Sunday from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm. To make a reservation for a table […]

Versailles Water Theater Reimagined

The gardens of Versailles have long been unwritten as a site of possibility and accepted as one of maintenance and restoration, until now. Once the location of the king’s outdoor entertainment venue, the Water Theater grove has been reimagined by French landscape designer Louis Benech and sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel. You can read the New York Times article […]

Farm to Table Gardening in the Tradition of Versailles

The urban landscape is often dismissed as a disruption of ecology and devoid from the natural world, but in a society where our population is growing exponentially and technology is moving forward without regress, we must accept to a degree the permanence of man made architecture on our earth. Urban gardens have both combated and […]

Upper East Side Balcony Potential

The CDL/S team recently brought life to a small, dark concrete terrace on the Upper East Side. While many of the residential buildings in this area were built around the same period, few have done much to maximize the potential of their precious personal outdoor space. A perimeter of plantings and fern fencing has been […]

Porcelain Tiles

With building materials improving all the time, new finishes are also being designed with an aesthetic perspective. Although Porcelain has been around for centuries, in the last few years some major advances, such as digital ink-jet technology to achieve authentic stone appearances, has allowed for the industry to take off. The weight of real stone […]

Rooftop Soil on Bleecker Street

The CDL/S team has designed a roof garden where there once was a roof deck atop a coop building on Bleecker Street. While the old wood deck served the building well for many years, a lack of soil containment and root barrier between the roof membrane and planting boxes became a problem as the garden […]

Artificial Plant Installation on the Upper East Side

While no one can deny the beauty of a living plant, New York, with little light and a lack of soil, can sometimes be a difficult place to cultivate robust specimens. For some clients, the prospect of having a no-maintenance, forever-green artificial plant is far more appealing. Artificials can be extremely attractive when used properly […]