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New Ken Smith Garden Oasis Right In Midtown ManhattanOn Tuesday, September 12th, Atco Properties and Management unveiled a new viewing and sculpture garden, located in the interior courtyard of their two midtown residential buildings, 40 Central Park South and 41 West 58th Street.
The new viewing garden is the creation of landscape architect Ken Smith and features a sculpture collection that includes a cast steel Isamu Noguchi torso titled "Man Aviator" from 1939, a mid-century cast copper by Chaim Gross and -- recently commissioned for the new garden -- a large bronze by Michele Oka Doner.
Ken Smith's garden is designed for viewing from a window-lined central hallway and rotunda space, as well as from the apartments surrounding and looking down on the garden.
The ground plan is designed as a parterre of planted ground covers, crushed white marble, recycled black rubber and blue marbles which are under-lit, giving the garden a nighttime glow and sense of water.
Ornamental plantings of Japanese Maple, Bamboo, and Magnolia are strategically sited within the garden and the screens are planted with climbing Hydrangea vines.
A series of tall aluminum-stained wood screens divide the garden into overlapping layers of space creating a heightened sense of scale, depth and visual mystery.
"This courtyard viewing-garden is a place of respite and composure that humanizes
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