VIA 57 West

Sat, Sep 30, 2023
2:00 PM

Your guide: Jeffrey Poor, Principal and Studio Director, Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, PLLC

The courtyard at VIA 57 West is a private park within a pyramidal residential building on Manhattan’s West Side designed by Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group. The tour will take us on a meandering path through three unique ecosystems, each with its own plants and animals representing a local habitat of the Hudson River Valley. We'll start in a grove of fern and birch, then climb up to a grassy knoll overlooking the river. Starr Whitehouse designed the project and received the 2017 Merit Award for Residential Design from ASLA’s NY Chapter. A LEED-certified professional, Poor’s dedication to the application of sustainability as part of design strategy is palpable in his simple and elemental landscapes.

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We are deeply grateful to the following for their sponsorship of the Garden Futures Summit.

UNDERWRITER
Phil and Shelley Belling
Perfect Earth Project

CHAMPION
Elizabeth Locke 

PARTNER
Eleanor Briggs
Howard Formby Garden Design, Inc.
Marilyn Lummis

FRIEND
Anonymous
Mrs. Coleman P. Burke
Camille Butrus
Diane and Jim Connelly
The Enchanted Edible Forest at Cross Island Farms
Elizabeth Giovine
Marsha L. Greenman
Michelle Griffith
Richard Motika and Jerrie Whitfield
Dr. and Mrs. Zebulon Taintor

CULTURAL SPONSORS

            

The Garden Conservancy educational programs are made possible in part by the Coleman and Susan Burke Distinguished Lecture Fund, Courtnay and Terrence Daniels, the Lenhardt Education Fund, and Susan and William McKinley.

Additional support is provided by The Celia Hegyi Matching Challenge Grant, Mrs. Ritchie Battle, the Antonia Breck Fund, Camille Butrus, Michelle and Perry Griffith, Rise S. Johnson, The Krehbiel Family Foundation, Sleepy Cat Farm Foundation, and John S. Troy, FASLA.