Midtown North Plaza reimagines a central New York City outdoor space as a resilient, high-end public landscape. Rewild designed planting and hardscape as one system—shaping clear circulation, crafted architectural details, and layered, urban-proof planting that supports biodiversity. Seasonality, texture, and fragrance bring a sensory softness to the city, creating a plaza that feels generous, immersive, and increasingly alive over time.
The Rewilding Project is expanding over the streets and restaurants plaza and offers an even larger selection of plants native from the North East of the US. The dense planting plays a screening purpose for restaurants and contributes to social distancing while introducing the public to the flora of New York. The sequence of blooms has been evolving throughout Spring, Summer, and Fall. We chose a range of plants that would bloom at different times over the duration of the installation. In the planters, we propose a mix of grasses and perennials offering pink and purple blooms that will shift in October towards orange and yellow tones to match the bronze color of the grasses in the fall.
Midtown North Plaza NYC plaza landscape architecture by Rewild Landscape
