Level up my projectStartWe're the landscape architects behind the rooftop that changed Salt Lake City. And the one in Sugar House that leasing teams call their closer. And the mixed-use district developers fly in from across the country to study. If your project is in Salt Lake and the outdoor space has to do more than look fine, you're in the right place.
Downtown, the West Side, Sugar House, Central Ninth, The Gateway. Walk any of them and you'll pass our work.
4th West put an Olympic-sized pool and a 26,000 square foot lifestyle deck on a block nobody wanted to live on. Skyhouse stacked a rooftop, two podium courtyards and a street-level landscape on a dense downtown corner. Park Avenue went from concept to construction in twelve weeks on one of the most exposed corners in Sugar House. Post House turned a stretch of downtown you drove past into a district other developers tour.
None of that happened by accident. Our studio is in Sandy, on the south end of the valley. We know the winters that steam off a January pool deck, the summers that cook a west-facing terrace, the review boards, and the trades. That's the part a firm flying in from Denver can't offer you.
Rooftops and outdoor amenities in Salt Lake City
We've seen it before. Beautiful building, incredible interiors, and then you step outside and think, oh. Budgets blow out, the wrong consultants jump in, and suddenly the big reveal falls flat. It's frustrating. And completely avoidable.
Salt Lake is in a multifamily building boom, and a lot of it is leasing on concessions. The projects that don't are the ones where the outdoor space is the reason people sign. Skyhouse opened into that market with a controlled budget and a design-led strategy, and the rooftop is still the thing residents write about: nearly one in five Google reviews mentions it.
We design rooftops, podium courtyards, pool decks and shared spaces people actually use. Spaces that strengthen leasing, reputation and long-term value once people move in, not just on opening day.
See the rooftop work →We didn't just want outdoor spaces that looked good. We wanted places people would actually use. Loft Six Four understood that from day one. Across projects like Post House and Sugar Alley, the outdoor spaces became central to how the developments were experienced, and played a clear role in leasing and overall project performance.
Luxury homes along the Wasatch Front
Your home is where the details really matter. How the stone feels underfoot on a cold Salt Lake morning. Where you stretch out with your book once the afternoon sun clears the Wasatch. How a long lunch turns into dinner without moving inside.
We design outdoor spaces that look outstanding and are made to be lived in. Pools engineered for four-season performance in Utah's climate, terraces that step with the grade, planting that's drought-tolerant and water-wise, suited to Utah's climate. This is where Brandon's foundational experience shines: years of high-end residential work have shaped a sharp instinct for proportion, materiality and detail.
Modern Elm, in Orem, became the most visited home in the 2025 Utah Valley Parade of Homes, with 28,127 guests and the Platinum People's Choice award for Best Landscaping and Outdoor Space. Hidden Oak Haus, in Highland, went from site walk to a full plan set in fourteen days. Same team, same standard.
See the homes →Anybody looking for a high-end, high-quality landscape design, Loft Six Four would be the go-to for me.
Local conditions
Four things come up on nearly every Salt Lake job. None of them are reasons to shrink the idea. They're reasons to bring us in early.
Salt Lake City's water-wise landscape rules limit how much turf you can plant and push new development toward drought-tolerant planting. Fine by us. At The Randi, the rooftop lounge runs on water-wise landscaping and still earned a Merit Award from Urban Design Utah. At Skyhouse, the palette is drought-tolerant and suited to Utah's climate, on a rooftop residents call their favorite place to unwind. Lush is a design decision, not a water bill.
What to plan for: along the Wasatch Front, many sites irrigate from a secondary (non-culinary) system with its own pressure, metering and seasonal shutoff. The irrigation plan is a regulated drawing, and it's where lush planting quietly dies if nobody owns it. So we design the planting and the water together, early, with the civil and irrigation consultants at the table. For scale, 4th West carries 70,500 square feet of site landscape, 28,000 square feet of courtyards and integrated misting systems. Water is a design input there, not a line item at the end.
Everything we put on a roof lands on somebody's structural calc. Pools, planters, pavers, fire features, people. We design to the structure from the first sketch so the review is a formality, not a redesign. At Park Avenue the paving grid locks into the slab joints below, which also made it the reference point on site when documentation and construction overlapped. At Post House our scope was the podium: amenity decks and pools over structure that had to work in January as well as July.
Sugar House and the downtown districts carry their own design expectations, and a rooftop on an exposed corner gets looked at from every angle. We design in these districts and we know what review expects: make the submission as explicit as possible, even at concept stage, so there's nothing to misread. Park Avenue sits on one of the most prominent and exposed corners in Sugar House and went from concept to construction in twelve weeks. Sugar Alley, in the same neighborhood, came back from a 2022 construction fire to win Utah Construction & Design's Most Outstanding Multi-Family project for 2025.
Project types
The amenity decks that lease the building.
With Lowe Property Group and MVE + Partners. Rooftops, living streets and courtyards that hold a neighborhood together.
In Central Ninth, where a spa-cascade courtyard makes smaller units live big.
The only expansive outdoor office patio in The Gateway. And a Provo tech campus brought back to life without touching a building.
Pools, terraces and gardens designed with the same intent as the architecture they sit beside.
In good company
I can always count on Loft Six Four to deliver a well-planned and cutting-edge site and urban landscape architectural design. I appreciate the attention to detail and ability to marry the architectural design style with the landscape and outdoor gathering/living areas.
Post House is one of the most successful mixed-use projects in the country. Clients fly in from all over the US to see it. The design, the landscape, the place-making. It's paying off in spades.
Their creativity is beyond imagination. But it was their responsiveness that made all the difference.
FAQ
Earlier than feels natural. The best time is schematic design, while the site plan, grades, and big outdoor moves are still open. That's when the outdoor space can still shape the project instead of decorating it. Second-best time? Now. We've joined projects late before and made it work. We'd just rather build the wow in than bolt it on.
Possibly. We can't speak for how others work. What we can say is this: we're brought in when the outdoor space needs to define the project. When it has to stand out. When the site is complex. When it needs to perform, not just look good. We design outdoor environments that are bold, integrated, and built to work in the real world. On the ground, on structure, or in the sky. That's why teams bring us in early. And why our work becomes the part people talk about.
Sure. You always can. Cheaper usually means generic thinking up front, and less support when things get complicated. Our clients don't come to us to save on fees. They come to us to create iconic outdoor spaces, get visionary solutions, and avoid costly mistakes. They know we're by their side through delivery, sorting the details on site and making sure the shared vision gets built. We're not for everyone. If this resonates with you, let's chat.
It matters more than you think. We may sound biased, but the numbers don't lie. On our Park Avenue project in Sugar House, we estimate the rooftop pool terrace contributed more than $4 million in added property value through increased rental returns. When the landscape is done well, it carries the experience. It becomes the place people choose to spend their time beyond their four walls. That's why our clients don't treat landscape as an afterthought. They treat it as essential.
Because we design for the people who'll live there, not for the brochure. We look hard at who the space is for, then shape the program around how they actually spend a Tuesday evening. It's why, at Post House, the outdoor spaces became central to how the place is experienced, not just a line on the amenity list. Spaces designed around real behavior get used. Spaces designed around a checklist get photographed once.
Fair worry. Wrong way around. We design and coordinate everything outside the building: pools, structure coordination, materials, planting, lighting, furniture. One scope, one team, one throat to choke (ours). The aim is simple: the outdoor package should be the easiest part of the job to manage.
Usually? Nothing, because we've already been there. Deep Dive pins a realistic cost range before anything gets designed, so the concept is ambitious and buildable from day one. Grand visions mostly die at bid time. Ours are costed before they're drawn.
No. Salt Lake is home, and it's where most of the work you'll see on this page was built. But our projects span cities, climates, and scales across the US, including the Residence Inn rooftop in downtown Boise. If the brief is right, geography isn't the obstacle.
Let's do this properly.
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Loft Six Four · Landscape Architects · Sandy, Utah · Working across Salt Lake City and the US
