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10/16/2026

A Garden for Well-Being

What a difference a year makes! Since its June 2025 ribbon-cutting, Emerald Terrace at Mary Manning Walsh Home has blossomed into a lush, welcoming rooftop garden. Designed as a restorative sanctuary for elderly and recovering residents, this once-underutilized terrace now offers a richly planted outdoor environment where comfort, beauty, and nature come together.

Shaded seating areas, intimate gathering spaces, and seasonal planting invite relaxation, social connection, and quiet reflection.
Emerald Terrace shows how even a modestly scaled rooftop can become a meaningful landscape—enriching daily life through nature's restorative power.

HMWhite | Site Architecture & Landscape Urbanism
Photo Credit: Brian Buckley Photography

10/16/2026

The Orchard | A Landscape Coming Together

What began as a carefully orchestrated planting composition is evolving into a cohesive, richly layered landscape—one that continues to gain depth, seasonal character, and ecological vitality. It is rewarding to see the landscape's original design vision taking shape as a living environment that will continue to evolve and enrich the daily experiences of The Orchard's residents.

HMWhite | Site Architecture & Landscape Urbanism

06/08/2026

New York City's Largest Backyard
At nearly 1.5 acres, The Orchard was conceived as a true community park within a verdant woodland landscape. The park brings together a wide range of recreational amenities with both social and private gathering spaces, creating an outdoor environment that supports community, relaxation, and everyday life. Now entering its first full growing season, the landscape's spatial framework, emerging tree canopy, and layered palette of native-adapted plantings are beginning to reveal the vision behind the design.

05/04/2026

It was an honor to collaborate with this talented team to reveal a distinctive and memorable coastal landscape identity.

04/24/2026

We’re pleased to share HMWhite’s role as landscape architectural consultant for this newly approved Palm Beach residential development, in collaboration with Fairfax & Sammons Architects.

Approved by ARCOM and the Palm Beach Town Council, the project presents a unique challenge: nearly the entire site is built on structure. In response, the landscape is designed as an integrated living roof system—using native coastal plant communities, vines, and strategically placed broad canopy shade trees to cool and soften the environment while establishing a cohesive spatial identity.

The result is a resilient, high-performance landscape that evokes the intimacy and character of a Mediterranean coastal town—where landscape is not applied, but foundational.

04/24/2026

We're pleased to share that Morgan North has received a 2026 SARA NY Design Award for landscape architecture.

This NYC historic postal facility rooftop is transformed into a two-acre landscape that supports community building, engagement, and the connection between daily work life and nature. By rethinking what an "office park" can be in New York City, the design brings meaningful open space into the daily experience of urban life.

Thank you to our clients and collaborators for making this possible.

02/06/2026

Designed for time, not just opening day.

Now, four years after completion, JACX Commons has matured into a richly planted urban landscape that continues to improve with age. Its undulating, vegetated mounds obscure its rooftop condition while providing improved seasonal comfort and a memorable identity, quietly recalibrating the everyday experience of work and city life.

This is the future of urban development: productive landscapes that grow more valuable over time.

12/30/2025

These images validate immeasurable benefits in creating landscapes that build community spirit and togetherness.

12/30/2025

11/25/2025

Designed landscapes cannot endure without knowledgeable landscape management. New York Green Roofs has been one of HMWhite's most effective partners in caring, nurturing, and upholding the integrity of our landscape designs and performance. Their customer service is top-notch, consistently meeting expectations. It is gratifying to see our landscape designs mature to their original concept.