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Mingo Design Reclaims Ugly Downtown Manhattan Roofscapes

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Tribeca rooftop

Kari Elwell Katzander, the owner and principal designer of a novel landscaping company in New York City is on a mission. Her company, Mingo design creates a new kind of vertical urban Manhattan landscape, by integrating Green Roof technology and Living walls.

Same space: Before

“I think of Manhattan rooftops as underdeveloped real-estate. Building owners need not look any further for purchasing more space, but rather to reinvent the outdoor space that they already own” says Kari.

She creates private outdoor rooms, including hideaways and secret recesses; into spaces that comfort, calm and rejuvenate city dwellers.

To build their vertical plant-scapes, first Mingo grows the plants horizontally for a few months to allow for the roots to thoroughly integrate into the soil, which then holds the soil in place after they go extremely vertical.

As Kari puts it: “Who would have thought all of these ugly rooftops would be, in the end, the possible solution to the Manhattan’s environmental issues…..reducing energy consumption and storm water run off.”

Images: Mingo Design