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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

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

SCAPE was selected to design the landscape for Harvard University’s new Enterprise Research Campus in Allston, on a design team including Tishman Speyer, Studio Gang, Henning Larsen, and Utile. Plans for the campus include a mix of research-focused companies, green space, residences, and a hotel and conference center. Phase one, encompassing 14 acres and nearly

SCAPE received three honors in The Architect’s Newspaper 2019 Best of Design Awards—an annual awards program recognizing excellence in 49 categories of design including unbuilt and built works of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, product design, and more. This year, our awards spanned three cities across the U.S. Read the official announcement here. The SCAPE

This year’s ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture was in San Diego, California—SCAPE showed up in full force with a roster of panels, events, and ceremonies throughout the weekend. On Saturday, November 16, Kate signed copies of “Petrochemical America” and “Toward an Urban Ecology” at the ASLA EXPO Bookstore. Later in the day, Elena presented in

In this week’s New York Magazine, architecture critic Justin Davidson wrote about SCAPE’s First Avenue Water Plaza at the base of the American Copper Buildings—in particular, a sense of “liveliness, mutability, and natural change” flowing down into the Plaza. “With its planted hillocks, artfully placed boulders, and long wood-slat benches resting on bases of weathered

Public Sediment for Alameda Creek just received an Honor Award in Analysis and Planning in the American Society of Landscape Architects 2019 Professional Awards. Developed as part of the Resilient by Design: Bay Area Challenge, the project recently received $31.4M in implementation funding from the State of California. Congratulations to the SCAPE-led team, which includes

We broke ground on the new Arkansas Arts Center today alongside partners Studio Gang, Nabholz Corporation, Pepper Construction Group, and many others. Kate and Jeanne Gang delivered remarks alongside many others at the morning ceremony, including Little Rock Mayor, Frank Scott, Jr. The transformed AAC designed by Studio Gang and SCAPE aims to foster deeper

After over a decade of community planning, Mission Rock Partners (Tishman Speyer, the San Francisco Giants, and the Port of San Francisco) have released new renderings and an updated design for China Basin Park—a new 5-acre waterfront park showcasing the historic ecologies of the Bay Area, designed by SCAPE. John King wrote about the unveiling

This week, Public Sediment received $31.4 million in implementation funding from the State of California. Our local team members joined State Senator Bob Wieckowski for the ceremony. Public Sediment for Alameda Creek was developed as part of the year-long Resilient By Design: Bay Area Challenge. SCAPE led the team, which also includes Arcadis, the Dredge