Today, The Harborkeepers launched Vision Chelsea Creek: a six month-long visioning, planning, and stakeholder engagement process to re-imagine the abandoned MBTA / MassDOT-owned railway site along the industrial shoreline of lower Chelsea Creek in East Boston. Aiming to solve for multiple coastal and urban challenges, this project is driven by a public-private partnership between The
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Hayward Shoreline Adaptation Master Plan launches website and public comment form
Today, we launched a new website to gather public input on the Hayward Shoreline Adaptation Master Plan by June 12th. The shoreline of Hayward, CA is a mosaic of diverse bayland ecosystems, habitats, and critical infrastructure – supporting a mix of tidal marshes, salt ponds, filtration marshes, storage ponds, diked wetlands, landfills, solar fields, and
Read PostHudson Rising made available as immersive online experience
While museums and cultural institutions across the nation are closed, some of our partners are developing new ways to interact with and learn from past exhibits. Hudson Rising—a 2019 exhibit at the New-York Historical Society exploring 200 years of ecological change and environmental activism along the Hudson River—is now available as an immersive online experience.
Read PostKate speaks with ASLA’s The Dirt for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
For the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Kate spoke with ASLA’s The Dirt about the role of landscape architects in the context of our current global pandemic, climate change, and how SCAPE’s projects integrate ecological benefit at all scales. “Landscape architects are largely concerned with the ‘middle scale,’ but Earth Day forces us to conceive
Read PostMidtown Center Plaza wins ASLA-NY Merit Award for 2020
SCAPE’s work on Midtown Center Plaza in Washington, DC won a Merit Award in ASLA-NY’s 2020 Design Awards. Inspired by the radiating geometry of the original L’Enfant plan for DC, Midtown Center Plaza introduces a 15,000 square foot forested plaza and cross-block connection into the dense environment of central city. Sculptural forms, angular planting beds,
Read PostSCAPE: Update on COVID-19
A Note to our Clients and Colleagues: In light of the COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic, SCAPE is following current best practices that aim to slow the spread of the virus. Our teams have been working from home since March 13th, and we will continue this practice until this critical period passes. Our IT setup is
Read PostSCAPE and Wood kick off the Carpenter Creek and Bayou Texar Watershed Management Plan
This week, SCAPE and Wood were in Pensacola, Florida to kick off the Carpenter Creek and Bayou Texar Watershed Management Plan with a series of site visits, meetings, and a community meeting on Wednesday evening. In partnership with Escambia County and the City of Pensacola, we are studying access, water quality, ecological conditions, and opportunities
Read PostSCAPE in Architectural Design, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and more
We’re two months into 2020 and the press has been rolling in—SCAPE has been featured in the new issue of Architectural Design, twice in Landscape Architecture Magazine, in a new anthology on resilient design by Ed Barsley, and much more. Find a selection of featured press and publications below: “What is Design Now? Un-making
Read PostKate Orff and SCAPE honored as Urbanist of the Year in AN’s First Annual Design Gala
This year, Kate Orff and SCAPE have been honored as Urbanist of the Year in The Architect’s Newspaper’s First Annual Design Gala, recognizing her and the firm’s contributions to the field’s advancement in the past year. Among the other honorees are our repeat collaborators Studio Gang in the category of Excellence in Building, and Denise
Read PostElena Brescia departs from SCAPE
At the end of 2019, Principal Elena Brescia, FASLA, departed from SCAPE. Elena has been a key part of SCAPE, supporting its establishment and growth while advancing excellence in the firm’s administration and built work portfolio. In 2015, she was elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows, among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on
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