Future Green Landscape Architecture

The project approaches the existing building playfully through adaptive reuse, sometimes collapsing the differences between the old and the new, and sometimes emphasising them to a point of daring juxtaposition. What it achieves with distinction is the verticality of the landscape that, through a texture of roughness and refinement, the built and the grown produce a dramatic and dazzling effect, rendering the space porous, mysterious, and engaging. The adaptive reuse strategy is unapologetic in its retention of the bluntly exposed brick and concrete, drawing upon a distinctly American lineage of industrial conversions. The result is a productive tension between control and weathering within contemporary re-occupation, allowing the entropy of time to remain legible and experienced throughout this new mixed-use district.

Raleigh Iron Works is deeply rooted in the city’s history, honoring its industrial past as a steel foundry and munitions manufacturer during both world wars. Through adaptive reuse, the site’s original buildings and salvaged materials have been repurposed to create a dynamic 26-acre district that blends office, residential, and retail spaces with interconnected outdoor areas […]

St. John’s Terminal: An Ecology for Tech and Innovation Located at 550 Washington Street in Manhattan, St. John’s Terminal has been adapted into a center for tech and innovation as a new headquarters for GOOGLE. The former terminus of the raised railway that has been repurposed as The High Line linear park has been skillfully […]

PROJECT SUMMARY The landscape at Le Pavillon, a second-story restaurant located in the newly constructed One Vanderbilt Avenue, is a lush, garden oasis in the heart of Midtown. Evocative of a New York forest, the garden includes a carefully curated, layered palette of indoor groundcover, understory, and canopy plants that create an immersive dining experience […]

PROJECT SUMMARY The landscape at The Amant Foundation is comprised of a series of courtyards that unify its three separate addresses and stitch the elements of this art campus – exhibition galleries, a performance space, a bookstore and café, and a studio residency – into a cohesive whole. Reflecting the non-profit arts organization’s goal to […]