Brooklyn, NY
2024-2025
Landscape design for 144 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn, as featured in The New York Times.
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Rewild Landscape designed the planting and landscape for 144 Vanderbilt Avenue, the pink residential building in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, covered by The New York Times in 2024 in "The Pink Building That Is Changing Fort Greene." The project combines street-level planting with terraced gardens that extend the building's ecological footprint across the surrounding streetscape.
144 Vanderbilt Avenue's landscape is notable for integrating native planting with a high-profile Brooklyn residential development, using the building's pink facade as a backdrop for layered naturalistic gardens. The design supports urban biodiversity — pollinators, soil life, seasonal bird presence — while giving residents and passersby a garden that performs ecologically across Fort Greene's changing seasons.
144 Vanderbilt Avenue was covered by The New York Times in 2024 under the headline "The Pink Building That Is Changing Fort Greene." The article positioned the project as a landmark of contemporary Brooklyn residential architecture, and Rewild Landscape's planting design was credited as part of what distinguishes the building from conventional new-construction towers in the neighborhood.
