Luxury outdoor Terraces and Roof Gardens for Condos and Coops.
At Garden Design NYC, we specialize in transforming your outdoor spaces into sanctuaries that reflect both luxury and lifestyle — fulfilling the needs, dreams and expectations of each client. Our award-winning design team brings creativity, technical expertise, and an eye for detail to every project, making us one of the best rooftop and terrace garden designers in NYC.
The studio is led by Todd Haiman, an NYC landscape designer whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Forbes, Wall St. Journal Business Insider, Crain’s, Better Homes & Gardens and published in multiple garden coffee table books. His reputation is built on creating thoughtful, enduring landscapes that elevate everyday living.
Our work has been consistently recognized for its innovation and quality:
These accolades underscore a commitment to design integrity, sustainability, and timeless outdoor spaces.
A rooftop or terrace garden is a carefully orchestrated balance of architecture, horticulture, and lifestyle design. A skilled landscape designer ensures the following:
We visit the residence, listen closely to your goals, aspirations, site challenges, and discuss typical budget ranges.
You receive a clear, fixed-fee proposal outlining scope and how we’ll work together, from concept through final landscape plan.
We share concept options with precedent imagery, sketches, and renderings; together we develop themaster plan; a true blueprint for layout, hardscape, planting, pergolas, furnishings, and site amenities.
We coordinate with engineers, architects, and expediters; we advocate for you so submissions remain compliant and your design intent stays intact.
We ensure the design intent and construction methods offer a clear direction for all to follow beginning with you the client. Detailed drawings, sections, planting plans, lighting specs, and material schedules — offer the technical clarity contractors need to build and install.
We issue coordinated technical sets and assemble line-item cost guides; then we help phase and value-engineer without compromising design quality.
We schedule, manage, and review workmanship, collaborating with best-in-class fabricators and trades. (You are welcome to use your preferred contractors as well.)
A tailored maintenance plan and optional long-term site wardship keeps the garden performing beautifully as it matures.
A penthouse urban oasis
Our client, a couple with teenage sons, sought an exterior series of rooms to become an extension of their indoor space, for family dining/relaxing, a space to entertain large groups. They asked for us to create an artistic pergola as a focal point. We created a rooftop garden design that balances art with functional, modern NYC living:
The result is a tranquil retreat with multiple sweeping views, a rooftop garden that is both aesthetic and deeply meaningful.
At Garden Design NYC, every project is a bespoke commission. We don’t believe in templates, each garden is tailored to the architecture it belongs to, the light it receives, and the way you want to live within it.
Our approach is as fluent in budgets and timelines as it is in plant palettes and textures, allowing us to guide you seamlessly from first sketches to the final installation.
Above all, the studio is founder-led: with Todd Haiman’s decades of expertise, your project benefits from the kind of seasoned guidance and artistry that only comes with experience at the very top of the field.
Q: Do I need approvals to build a roof garden?
Yes. We coordinate with engineers, architects, your building management, Department of Buildings and Landmarks to ensure compliance.
Q: How do you handle wind and weight?
Layouts, screening, and planting are designed with rooftop microclimates in mind, supported by engineering input.
Q: Will plants survive on my roof?
With curated species, proper soil systems, and irrigation, rooftop gardens thrive year-round.