The Orchard

Located on Orchard Street, The Orchard stands as Long Island City's tallest residential tower. It is named after its street address and 1.38-acre rooftop park landscape, which features an apple tree orchard as its signature planting feature. The park's landscape is designed as an open space resource with community-building activity offerings. Located more than a ten-minute walk from the nearest public open space, residents have immediate visual and physical access to an amenity-rich and verdant landscape oasis to soothe city life stresses. The Orchard's community park offers various outdoor passive and active recreation activities unparalleled in New York City's residential market. Each activity area is spatially organized and visually bonded by an all-encompassing woodland forest landscape design.

Inspired by the neighboring East River vegetative ecology, repetitive compositions of meandering groupings of shade and flowering trees with their companion underplantings establish a visually calming and spatially unifying landscape character. The scale and density of this common vegetative language boldly registers against the backdrop of its neighboring towers. The planted contoured landforms, coupled with distinct level changes, diversify the park’s landscape experiences of movement and pause. Custom-designed seating elements and plantings edge an open central lawn terrace, designed to orient residents, and imply a symbolic and communal center. Its multi-purpose versatility functions like a galvanizing "village green" with its open quality that contrasts with the rooftop's woodland forest perimeter. Elevated only two levels above street level, the landscape’s spatial structure masks the roof's boundaries and softens the towering neighboring buildings’ presence offering residents a complete immersive natural world escape.