The New York Times
Published: September 24, 2008
NOT every Manhattan penthouse dweller has to worry about a bathroom sink filling up with leaves. But if you live in an aerie that’s part home and part testing ground for how architecture and nature can interact, you learn to take the bad with the good.
When Matthew Blesso, 35, a real estate developer, bought his 3,100-square-foot apartment in Lower Manhattan two years ago, he turned it over to two Yale professors, the architect Joel Sanders and the landscape designer Diana Balmori. Together, they teach a course called Interface, about integrating architecture and landscape design. And so, with Mr. Blesso’s blessing, they turned his $4 million apartment into an extended classroom.
Their goal was not only to create a stunning series of gardens on the penthouse roof, but also to bring nature into the apartment, intermingling lush foliage and drip irrigation systems with custom wood furnishings and floors.
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