09/11/2026
There’s a lot happening on a New York City roof.
Mechanical equipment, vents, pipes, bulkheads, railings, drains—and, if you’re lucky, a pretty spectacular view.
At the Chelsea Mercantile, the challenge was figuring out how to turn a large, complicated working roof into a place people would actually want to spend time.
Working with landscape designer Town & Gardens, Ltd. and owner’s representative Allied Partners, we designed around a massive rooftop mechanical platform and a host of structural, code, and accessibility constraints to create spaces for dining, gathering, lounging, and taking in the Manhattan skyline.
Now that the landscape has had some time to fill in, we finally have the photographs we’ve been waiting for.