Design Workshop

Located six miles from Downtown, the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center offers an escape from urban life and serves as an educational resource for the community and region. Founded in 1967, the Arboretum is bordered by transit infrastructure and the Buffalo Bayou. The landscape had evolved into an overgrown woodland, overrun by invasive species and […]

Located in Austin, one of the next U.S. boomtowns, the Sky Garden at 70 Rainey sets a precedent for growing up rather than out and creates a deliberate connection to the surrounding landscape through careful plant selection. Recreating the Texas Hill Country landscape and utilizing nature as a healer, the Sky Garden creates protective microclimates […]

The 2.5-acre, forested site sits on a rocky promontory overlooking Montana’s Gallatin Range – a visually spectacular glacially-carved landscape that lies within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Enticed by the environment’s dynamic of extremes, the owners embarked on the creation a family retreat, one that married a contemporary mountain home composed of natural materials with an […]