Podium and amenity deck design is the outdoor space built on structure: the pool terraces, courtyards, and decks that sit over the lower floors of a building. Loft Six Four designs them for multifamily and mixed-use projects in Utah, from Post House and Skyhouse in Salt Lake City to The Grandeur in Holladay. For a developer or architect new to Utah, every deck below is built and photographed.
Skyhouse runs on three levels: a 13,000 sq ft rooftop, 12,000 sq ft of podium courtyards, and the street. Post House put its amenity decks and pools on the podium, and that podium was Loft Six Four’s scope. At The Grandeur the podium carries the whole amenity: a resort-style pool, an infinity spa, cabanas, and a fitness lawn, with Mount Olympus behind them.
Every pool, planter, and paver on a podium sits on a slab someone else engineered, so loads, waterproofing, and drainage are part of the design early. Post House’s podium pools had to work in January as well as July. At Park Avenue, a rooftop, the paving grid locks into the slab joints below.
Post House, Skyhouse, Slate, and Sugar Alley are in Salt Lake City. The Grandeur is in Holladay, and Parc on 5th is in American Fork. The studio is in Sandy. If you’re building in Utah for the first time, start with those project pages and the Salt Lake City page. Outside Utah, Loft Six Four designed the Residence Inn rooftop in Boise.
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Podium and amenity deck design is the design of shared outdoor space built on a structural deck above the lower floors of a building, rather than on the ground. In Loft Six Four’s work that means pool terraces, courtyards, and amenity decks for multifamily and mixed-use buildings. Post House in Salt Lake City and The Grandeur in Holladay are podium amenities, and Skyhouse has podium courtyards between its rooftop and the street.
A rooftop sits on top of the building, and a podium deck sits on structure over a lower level. Many buildings have both. Skyhouse in downtown Salt Lake City has a 13,000 sq ft rooftop, 12,000 sq ft of podium courtyards, and a street-level landscape, designed so the rooftop, podium, and street work as one connected experience.
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Loft Six Four’s published podium and amenity deck work is in Salt Lake City, Holladay, and American Fork. Post House in the Post District opened in 2023. Skyhouse in downtown Salt Lake City was completed in 2023, Slate in Central Ninth in 2022, and Sugar Alley in Sugar House was rebuilt in 2025. The Grandeur at Holladay Hills opened in October 2024. Parc on 5th is a pool amenity deck in American Fork. The studio is in Sandy, Utah.
Loads, waterproofing, and drainage come first, because every pool, planter, and paver sits on a slab the building team has already designed. Loft Six Four coordinates with architecture, structure, waterproofing, drainage, wind, code, operations, and leasing early. Post House’s podium pools had to work in January as well as July. At Park Avenue, a rooftop, the paving grid locks into the slab joints below.
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Everything on a podium deck sits on a slab someone else engineered, so a landscape design that arrives late has to fit around loads and drains it had no say in. Loft Six Four, a landscape architecture studio in Sandy, Utah, designs podium decks with the structure in mind from the start. In Salt Lake City its work includes the podium amenity decks and pools at Post House, the podium courtyards at Skyhouse, the Slate courtyard in Central Ninth, and Sugar Alley’s rooftop and courtyard amenities over three podium levels. Outside the city, The Grandeur in Holladay puts a resort-style pool and infinity spa on its podium.
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