that gives the feeling that Kemp was not designing Going Green unstructured, yet colourful and vibrant, template.
a hotel, but her family’s New York home, with plans Sustainability is top of mind throughout: besides There will be over 50 varieties including butterfly
to entertain a lot. “We love colour, and texture and natural light, the hotel also boasts a meadow, weed, false indigo, blueberry, aster,
tones, and we wanted to put in detail that we hadn’t courtesy of green roof design firm Goode Green, on sumac and echinacea. The meadow is an expression
seen in a lot of New York hotels.” says Kemp. “When the second floor roof, and the 11th floor will soon be of nature in its most organic form. It will flower in
you’ve been doing this for quite a long time, it’s home to another garden, complete with chickens to stages throughout each season and will alter as it
fun to break a few rules and genuinely have a great provide the freshest eggs to the restaurant. Crosby matures. Not only will the guests of this suite enjoy
time with fabric and colour.” Green and orange felt Street is also on track to be the first LEED Gold hotel the meadow; it can be seen from upper floors within
cut-out mythical animals grace the backs of chairs in in New York City. LEED stands for Leadership in the hotel and from the surrounding buildings too.
the ‘50s style restaurant, Argentinean blankets were Energy and Environmental Design, and is America’s Rooftop Kitchen Garden
made into rough looking chairs, and patchwork recognised green-build rating system. “If you’re In essence, this is an urban vegetable patch that will
sofas were hand-sewn by Kemp and her team over doing a new building right now, it should be to the supply the hotel with seasonal produce including
the course of five days. LEED standard” says Kemp. strawberries, heirloom tomatoes and lettuces. An
“It would be boring to do all our hotels the The American Woodland Meadow area of the patch will be rotated yearly with a 10
same.” says Kemp. “And the wonderful thing here (2nd floor Meadow Suite) chicken coop, an homage to the great Ansonia Hotel
in America is that nobody is shy at all. As soon as This is situated on the hotel’s second floor adjacent on the upper west side that had a substantial farm
the doors were open, everyone wanted to come in to a beautiful one bedroom suite. A true native on its roof that included chickens, goats and a cow. •
and have a look. There’s none of the English reserve, woodland meadow has been planted with an array Crosby Street Hotel. 79 Crosby Street, New York City
which is actually wonderful.” of native flowering plants, creating a loose and Tel: +1 212 226 6400
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