Dirtworks Landscape Architecture

Wildflower Studios: The waterfront at Wildflower Studios—a pioneering vertical film studio in Astoria—reclaims a complex industrial shoreline as high-performing ecological civic infrastructure. The project advances a site-specific model for transforming constrained, contaminated urban edges into resilient public landscapes that integrate habitat restoration, climate adaptation, and public access within an operating campus. The park and streetscape […]

In 1965, the NYC Housing Authority built Stephen Wise Towers in the affluent Upper West Side, bringing affordable housing to the neighborhood. Over time, a lack of sustained investment resulted in a serious state of disrepair and unsafe conditions. Now, over 50 years after initial completion, our design team joined community leaders, government agencies, a […]