New York, NY, USA
Terrain is a landscape architecture firm based in New York City that creates award winning, ecologically integrated and socially treasured landscapes. Experience teaches us that carefully designed and conceived places have the power to positively impact the lives of individuals and communities that live, work, and play in our landscapes. Terrain embraces the energy of the city and magnifies the role of nature within it, creating transformative landscape spaces.
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Terrain’s work is framed within an ecological context – each project, no matter its size, is part of a network of cultural and environmental connections. We actively search for opportunities to connect to and fortify local ecosystems, whether it be through the careful design of storm-water recycling systems, the thoughtful selection of materials, or the establishment of native plant communities and habitat. Equally important is the fostering of social connections and networks. Well designed landscapes have the power to bring together families, neighbors and strangers and replenish the self.
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Working closely with Footprint Power and COOKFOX Architects, Terrain is helping to transform the existing coal and oil-fired power plant site into a state of the art combined cycle gas turbine facility. The new power station will occupy only a fraction of the previous operation, with the remaining space being converted to a public park, industrial waterfront, deep water port, and future harbor development.
Salem Harbor Power Station Read More »
Terrain was hired to design and oversee construction for the conversion of the former Watch Tower printing press to a large urban coworking campus located next to the East river and the Brooklyn Bridge.The first phase of the campus conversion focuses on 3 at grade public gardens and a series of retail terraces and overlooks which rise above Brooklyn Bridge Park below.
The philosophy that drove the design of the terrace was to create an urban roofscape that celebrated the spectacle of the city. The terrace landscape enhances the experience of the city, drawing clues from surrounding industrial roofs and giant infrastructures by constantly negotiating an exchange between the introversion and extroversion of the space.
Industry City is an aggregation of over 400 companies focused on craft and innovation. Terrain’s courtyard, one of 4, is dramatically set in the former Bush Terminal Industrial Campus- the nation’s first vertical factory. The courtyards, formerly railroad loading docks which delivered goods to the stacked warehouses and factories, are now a public gesture towards the community and the tenants of over 6 million square feet of workspace.
Industry City Courtyard 5-6 Read More »
Terrain developed a series of islands within a new field of paving. The islands function as built in seating, flexible sub-spaces and protected soil volume for the distinct grove of a Honey Locusts which provides shade and comfort. The geometry and terracing of the courtyard creates a child friendly circuit for running, biking and play.
Archipelago Courtyard Read More »
