Multifamily Housing

BROWN, RICHARDSON + ROWE

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS

Brio Condominium Hingham, MA

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Brown, Richardson + Rowe’s landscape planning and design projects include new or rehabilitated multifamily developments, mixed-use developments, affordable residential developments, senior housing, and adaptive reuse of historic properties. We work at a variety of scales including neighborhood master planning, development site designs, and roof deck detailing. We have assisted in many successful community processes to help gain the trust of abutters. Throughout our collaboration, we can help make each development project a success.

BRIO CONDOMINIUM

HINGHAM, MA

CLIENT: Albert, Righter & Tittmann, Architects And Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc.

SIZE: 160,000 Square Feet

COMPLETION: 2019

The five story residence in Hingham, MA features 77 high-end condominiums overlooking the marina. The accessible roof garden on the second floor includes a stone fire pit, gas grills, outdoor tables, informal seating, lighting, seasonal plantings, and walkways with open views to the harbor. The new streetscape includes an entrance canopy to the lobby, private terraces with gardens on the ground floor, street trees, planted islands, and ornamental lighting.

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CHESTNUT HILL WATERWORKS

BOSTON, MA

CLIENT: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance

SIZE: 4 Acres

COMPLETION: Fall 2006

The site design respects the long history and landmark status of the former Boston Waterworks, which has been converted into residential housing and office space. The views to the complex are virtually unchanged since the nineteenth century. The simple setting of rolling lawns and specimen trees enhances the buildings. By maintaining the generous landscape setback with its allée of mature oak trees, Brown, Richardson + Rowe preserved the fine landscape tradition of the Waterworks and created new engaging spaces for residents.

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100 CAMBRIDGE STREET

BOSTON, MA

CLIENT: Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance

SIZE: 1 Acre

COMPLETION: 2007

Brown, Richardson + Rowe designed the streetscape, plazas, courtyards, planters, and walls and steps, while ensuring accessibility to all areas of the residential and office development on Beacon Hill. The courtyard and water wall are located on the roof of an underground parking garage. The team reworked the garage slab to allow planting on the Plaza. The new streetscape along Bowdoin Street incorporates elements that reflect the character of Beacon Hill.

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LUSK NORTH HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

LUSK, IRELAND

CLIENT: McGarrell Reilly Group

SIZE: 20 Acres

COMPLETION: Design Stage

Brown, Richardson + Rowe is assisting McGarrell Reilly Group in the planning and design of the Lusk North neighborhood in Lusk, Ireland. Located in the Lusk suburb outside of Dublin, Lusk North is a new 20-acre housing development that includes plans for 93 houses, 2 neighborhood pocket parks, and a significant new open space that will complete the existing regional county sports park. Sports fields, a central playground, walking paths, viewing mounds, and storm detention ponds with wetland plantings integrated into the landscape will provide educational and all-season active and passive use opportunities for adjacent housing residents.

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