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Designer, activist, academic,
and author of Lo—TEK,
Design by Radical Indigenism.
A leading expert of Lo—TEK nature-based technologies for climate-resilience.
Her eponymously named studio brings creative and conceptual, interdisciplinary thinking to urban projects and corporate clients interested in systemic and sustainable change. Julia regularly teaches urban design at Harvard and Columbia University.
Rockefeller Center
Seasonal Campus Rewilding
Date: 2023
Location: New York, NY
Project Team: Watson Salembier
Client: Tishman Speyer
The Street Planting at the Rockefeller Center is an extension of our project “Rewilding the American Meadow”. The Rewilding project extends over the streets and offers an even larger selection of plants native from the North East of the US.
The colorful plantings are a mix of grasses and perennials that thrive with minimum maintenance and offer a spectacle of colors and textures throughout the year. This naturalistic planting design style softens the strict lines and materials of the very urban campus. The sequence of blooms has been evolving throughout Spring, Summer and Fall. We chose a range of plants that would bloom at different times over the duration of the installation. In the planters we propose a mix of grasses and perennials offering pink and purple blooms that will shift in October towards orange and yellow tones to match the bronze color of the grasses in the fall.
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