Sweet Street Desserts Outdoor Cafe, Reading, Pennsylvania

The contemporary cantilevered deck and urban meadow plantings create a signature environment for this outdoor café at Sweet Street Desserts. This dining terrace floats above an urban meadow of flowering perennials, grasses, and fruiting shrubs. Unique materials such as glass-embedded terrazzo paving, lighting, custom-tiled pizza oven, living green screens, and edible plantings in containers extend the lively character of the adjacent indoor café to the landscape.

Shared Footsteps Therapeutic Garden, Hunterdon Regional Cancer Center, Flemington, New Jersey

Situated in the heart of the Hunterdon Medical Center, the Shared Footsteps Therapeutic Garden is a sanctuary for patients, family and friends, medical staff and administrators to find solace, hope and reflection. The design for the postage stamp space, 40’x65’, is grounded in the growing body of scientific evidence that people heal more quickly and fully when connected with nature. The design utilizes native plants, stone, and water. A fresh blend of living walls, compacted gravel paths, babbling fountains and local art greet garden visitors as they stroll through the garden with engraved stones telling the stories of hope shared by others that have walked this difficult path in the past, a constant reminder that you are not alone, even as you reflect during private times in the garden. The garden visioning and design were a collaborative effort between hospital staff and administrators, Center patients, and our team.

Ridge 29, Pound Ridge, New York

Reclamation and adaptive reuse were explored for the sand and gravel quarry. Our visioning and regenerative strategies resulted in master plans that included a mixed use community for healthy work, live and play grounded in ecological restoration.

St. Helena’s Catholic Church and School, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

In an effort to improve safety, function, and aesthetics, the front parking lot of the school and church was redesigned. This collaborative effort optimized circulation patterns, provide safe play and access for students and visitors, explored alternative storm water management practices, and provided a sense of identity with a native planting theme along its major thoroughfare.

New Hope-Solebury Lower Elementary School, New Hope, Pennsylvania

The Lower Elementary School campus master plan features theme gardens, habitat restoration, athletic fields, vehicular circulation for bus and car pickup, and four-season plantings. Workshops with students, teachers and administrators led to the design and install of a Friendship Reading Garden that provided lunch, classroom and social space featuring a helix-shaped arbor, geometrical shapes for seating, gravel terrace, and native school yard habitat.