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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

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

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