Design Award of Merit

Lever House Landscape Restoration, New York, NY
Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York, NY
Client: Aby Rosen, RFR Realty LLC

It's great to see Noguchi and Lever House come back—an important part of NYC history. . . Powerful restoration!
           2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments

The landscape restoration design for Lever House began with many months of historical research into landscape restoration issues relative to the original designs, as-built 1953 conditions, and current conditions of the landscape. Several important findings become clear as part of this process. Foremost is how clearly the landscape has been degraded and altered over the past 50 years. All of the original as-built plantings had been replaced or modified with plantings out of keeping with the original design intentions. These modifications were corrected as part of this project to bring back the crispness, clarity and strength of the original planting design.