Caledonia

Residential Building
New York, New York

Manhattan's first luxury condominium tower on the acclaimed High Line features three highly developed vegetated roof gardens designed by HM White. The designs aspire to bring the outside in and the inside out, blurring the intersection of building and landscape. For two of the upper sun terraces, social gathering and recreational amenity spaces are enveloped by a lush vegetated context that evokes a remote Mediterranean hillside
meadow setting.

The lower central courtyard garden serves as a place of repose to invite quiet contemplative activities within a Hudson River Valley woodland setting. The garden’s spatial structure is created by a dense Hornbeam hedgerow giving complete privacy for adjacent private sun terraces and setting off a meandering Red Maple grove as a counter point. Sitting rooms have been carved out of a cultivated grassland meadow that contrasts against the woodland's foliage textures and hues.

A collection of gathering stone terraces and IPE decks float within undulating wildflower and grassland meadows creating a sense of spatial infinity. These elevated garden designs capitalize on filtered views of the Hudson River and merge with Chelsea's visually complex skyline - erasing any suggestion of being confined within a rooftop structure.