Roofdeck planters
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Project • By DEEPSTREAM DESIGNS, INC • Community Centres
Bon Secours Community Resource Center
Bringing community together. The Bon Secours Community Resource Center repurposed the Hollins-Payson Enoch Pratt Library, shuttered for decades, as a hub for West Baltimore, with a focus on youth.
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The investment in this center provided unique spaces for health, education, intervention programs and services that bring opportunity to developing youth.
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A rooftop patio garden and meeting space was added in 2025 for community gardening and to provide a safe outdoor space to gather, celebrate, garden, cook, learn and share time together.
A long planter-anchored screen wall with gate partitioned off the solar collectors from the multipurpose roof deck communi... More
Product • By DEEPSTREAM DESIGNS, INC • Alternative Rooftop Landscaping Systems Avoid Structural Building Damage
Alternative Rooftop Landscaping Systems Avoid Structural Building Damage
Alternatives to built-in or poured-in-place concrete planters for rooftop landscaping will avoid structural building damage, contractor and architect liability, and provide the lowest lifetime cost to the project owner and the environment.
As developers ourselves, we wanted to avoid the kind of structural damage to our new building that we had seen in buildings with poured-in-place concrete planters. The main reason we founded DeepStream Designs in 2006 was to make rooftop deck planters for our own condo building in Miami.
The tragic collapse of the Surfside Condo in July 2021 here in the Miami area was a wake-up call to the potential problems of concrete construction.
As builders and owners of our poured concrete build... More
Product • By DEEPSTREAM DESIGNS, INC • Planters for Streetscapes, Parks, and Urban Plazas
Planters for Streetscapes, Parks, and Urban Plazas
An unlimited selection of Landscape Architect grade commercial and residential garden planters and self-contained planter systems you can buy directly from American craftsmen.
Don’t confuse DeepStream’s engineered Mariner commercial planter and liner system for carpenter-built planters or planters with steel, painted, or galvanized metal that you see deteriorating everywhere.
DeepStream’s proprietary structural anodized extruded aluminum legs direct and contain the tremendous force that wood generates through its expansive wetting and drying cycles that tear others apart. Backed by a Lifetime Structural Warranty, there is no paint or powder coating to fail. Each part is replaceable with the “Core Replacemen... More