Landscape Architecture Design Exhibition Catalog 2018 - LBIF

LONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN EXHIBITION 2018 1

Welcome Welcome to the Landscape Architecture Design Exhibition Friday, June 29– Sunday, July 15, 2018

About the exhibition The “Landscape Design Architecture: The Coast” exhibition addresses environmental issues of sustainability, resiliency, eco-preservation and issues that are critical to this region, Ocean County and the New Jersey coast.

The significance of Art, Science and Design intersecting and working together is uniquely showcased.

With a special focus on the coastal landscape, internationally recognized leaders in Landscape Architecture display their cutting edge projects that have revolutioized environmental spaces.

Landscape Architecture is a multi-disciplinary field and one of the most diversified of the design professions. Landscape architects design the built environment of residential homes, neighborhoods, towns and cities while also protecting and managing the natural environment, from its forests and fields to rivers and coasts.

Members of the profession have a special commitment to improving the quality of life through the best design of places for people, the natural environment and habitats. They analyze, plan, design, manage, and nurture the built and have a significant impact on communities and quality of life.

Incorporating aspects of botany, horticulture, the fine arts, architecture, industrial design, soil sciences, environmental psychology, geography, ecology, and civil engineering, landscape architects work on structures and external spaces large or small, urban, suburban and rural. With “hard” (built) and “soft” (planted) materials, while integrating ecological sustainability, their ideas combine technical understanding with a creative flair for the design, organization, and use of spaces both small and large.

From the individual homeowner to those in charge of major public projects, landscape architects influence decades of economic growth and sustainability by planning and designing the construction of useful and pleasing projects.

I wish to acknowledge and thank Jay Madden of Jay Madden Architect on Long Beach Island, John Shields of Point B Design in Philadelphia, Bay Avenue Plant Company of LBI, Bay Magazine of LBI, and Sikora Wells Appel for their support of this exhibition.

Daniella Kerner Executive Director and Co-Chair of Arts & Exhibitions, LBIF

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The Landscape 1 AGENCY LANDSCAPE & PLANNING Agency is the capacity of human beings to act, to make choices.

Planning can empower people.

Design is an act of optimism. Empowerment and optimism are much needed, today more than ever.

Agency is a mission-driven practice dedicated to addressing social equity, cultural vitality and environmental resilience through design excellence, strategic planning and community empowerment.

2 ANDROPGON Founded over 40 years ago, Andropogon is a landscape architecture and ecological design firm committed to a “place first” approach to site design. We are dedicated to advancing dynamic, biodiverse landscapes, which are critical to the health and well-being of our communities. We strive to create beautiful and evocative landscapes that are inspired by the careful observation of natural processes and informed by environmental research.

3 BALL-NOGUES STUDIO Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. Our work is informed by the exploration of craft. Essential to each project is the “design” of the production process itself, with the aim of creating environments that enhance sensation, generate spectacle and invite physical engagement.

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4 BALMORI ASSOCIATES Balmori Associates, urban and landscape design studio, is recognized internationally for designing sustainable infrastructures that serve as the interface between people, landscape and architecture. The main tenet of our work is to set up a different type of relationship between ourselves and each of the elements of nature: soil, water, air, plants and animals.

5 JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS Founded in 1999, James Corner Field Operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City. Serving an international clientele, the practice is renowned for strong contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales.

6 JONATHAN ALDERSON LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Jonathan Alderson Landscape Architects, Inc. is a design practice focused passionately on innovative approaches to shaping land. Founded

by Jonathan Alderson in 1998, our firm’s aim is to create environments that are indicative of client needs and goals, while providing attractive places to live, work and visit.

7 KEN SMITH STUDIOS Ken Smith Workshop is an award winning landscape architecture firm committed to the design excellence of public spaces. The firm is committed to creating landscapes, especially parks and other public spaces, as a way of improving the quality of urban life. The firm practices landscape design primarily in the realm of public space.

Architects 8 MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERS Situated at the intersection of landscape, art and urbanism, Martha Schwartz Partners is committed to the design of urban landscapes and the public realm as the foundation for sustainable cities that are healthy across all aspects and sectors of urban life.

11 SIKORA WELLS APPEL Sikora Wells Appel is an award-winning landscape architectural firm established in 1979. Our firm’s approach to design is rooted in an understanding of a community’s history and culture, a site’s context, and sustainability. Our work continues to be diverse with a focus on creating beautiful and sustainable spaces.

9 OLIN STUDIO OLIN is a professional studio of more than 60 landscape architects, planners, and urban designers.

Our work is predicated upon social engagement, craft, environmental responsibility, and timelessness. Our appreciation for the unique complexities of urbanity is paramount.

Our award-winning projects cross boundaries of scale, typology, and site condition, yet are all driven by our central mission: to create places that enhance life.

12 SWA GROUP SWA was founded in 1957 as Sasaki Walker & Associates; in 1973, the firm changed its name to SWA Group. Despite being one of the largest firms of its type, SWA is organized into smaller studio-based offices that enhance creativity and client responsiveness. In addition to bringing strong aesthetic, functional, and social design ideas to our projects, we’re also committed to integrating principles of environmental sustainability.

10 OvS OvS is an award-winning practice of landscape architecture based in Washington, DC. The firm draws upon over four decades of engaging and sustainable place-making in the public and private realms. OvS believes strongly in the collaborative process and maintains a built portfolio that demonstrates what is possible when art, science and environmental sensitivity equally drive design.

13 WEST 8 West 8 is an award-winning international office for urban design and landscape architecture, founded in 1987 with offices in Rotterdam, New York and Belgium. Over the last three decades West 8 has established itself as a leading practice with an international team of 70 architects, urban designers, landscape architects and industrial engineers. West 8’s New York office was established after winning an international design competition in 2006 for the design of Governors Island Park - a 172-acre island in the New York Harbor.

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1 AGENCY Landscape + Planning Principals Gina Ford Brie Hensold 45 Lawn Street Cambridge, MA 02138

Agency is the capacity of human beings to act, to make choices. Planning can empower people.

Design is an act of optimism. Empowerment and optimism are much needed, today more than ever. At Agency Landscape + Planning, we believe in the power of people to initiate and make purposeful, positive change.

Agency is a mission-driven practice dedicated to addressing social equity, cultural vitality and environmental resilience through design excellence, strategic planning and community empowerment. We believe that - in order to address the most challenging issues of our contemporary society - diversity and inclusion are foundational to how we see, understand and, ultimately, shape our collective experience, particularly in the public spaces, parks and streets of our urban communities. We seek landscape and planning opportunities that allow us to partner meaningfully with constituents, that welcome many voices and hands in the process, and that produce outcomes that are deeply connected to the richness and uniqueness of place.

Agency is a women-run business enterprise led by partners Gina Ford and Brie Hensold. Their leadership - combined with a collective team of passionate and talented landscape architects, planners and urban designers - enables the full spectrum of design services - from strategic planning to complex landscape implementation.

Rebuild by Design Coastal New Jersey.

Completed Competition in 2014

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2 Andropogon Principal José Almiñana 10 Shurs Lane Philadelphia, PA 19127

Founded over 40 years ago, Andropogon is a landscape architecture and ecological design firm committed to a “place first” approach to site design.

We are dedicated to advancing dynamic, biodiverse landscapes, which are critical to the health and well-being of our communities. We strive to create beautiful and evocative landscapes that are inspired by the careful observation of natural processes and informed by environmental research.

We have a deep curiosity to learn about both the people and their place in order to craft a unique design for every site. We are guided by what a place has been, informed by what it is, and inspired by what it can be, in order to improve the environment and the life that it supports.

We believe that ecologically-responsible design must go beyond just minimizing our impact on the local and global environment. Instead, our designs must be regenerative and resilient, using every project as an opportunity to restore the integrity, function, and organization of all systems that shape a dynamic, changing landscape and its larger community, including human, social systems.

Top Long Beach Island A combined topographic / bathymetric map of Barnegat Bay Bottom Avalon Drawings for a tidal overlook structure at Avalon Preserve, currently under construction 6

Regenerative and resilient design demands that systems on site, including buildings and infrastructure, be efficient and purposeful, with no wasted resources. To achieve this goal, projects must be designed to be the best possible fit to the conditions of the site, and take advantage of both new technologies and old cultural knowledge to create net-positive adaptations.

Rapid development along our coastlines combined with increased climate volatility makes the need to create layered, multi-functioning landscapes more important than ever. Sensitive development along and within our floodplains and floodways is an important first step in achieving what we now know as resilient design.

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3 Ball-Nogues Studio Principals Benjamin Ball Gaston Nogues 3533 East Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90023

Top left Healing Pavilion Los Angeles,CA 2016 Top right Secondhand Geology Ellensburg, WA 2017 Bottom Orchard El Cariso Park Sylmar, CA 2015 8

Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. Their work is informed by the exploration of craft. Essential to each project is the “design” of the production process itself, with the aim of creating environments that enhance sensation, generate spectacle and invite physical engagement.

The Studio has exhibited at major institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum; PS1; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Venice Biennale; the Hong Kong | Shenzhen Biennale; and the Beijing Biennale. They have received numerous honors including three American Institute of Architects Design Awards, United States Artists Target Fellowships and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

In 2007, the Studio was the winner of the Museum of Modern Art PS1 Young Architects Program Competition and their work is part of the permanent collections of both MoMA and LACMA. In 2011, they were one of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices and, in 2014, they were finalists for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Benjamin and Gaston have taught in the graduate architecture programs at SCI-Arc, UCLA, and USC. Their work has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Architectural Record, Artforum, Icon, Log, Architectural Digest, Mark and Sculpture.

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4 Balmori Associates, urban and landscape design studio located in New York City, is recognized internationally for designing sustainable infrastructures Principals Javier González- that serve as the interface between people, landscape and architecture.

Campaña Balmori Associates

Noémie Lafaurie-Debany 584 Broadway Suite 506 New York, NY 10012

Left Beale Street Landing Memphis, TN Completed 2015 Top right Abandoibarra Master Plan, Waterfront Park Campa de los Ingleses Park Plaza Euskadi Bilbao, Spain Completed 2012 Bottom GrowOnUs Gowanus Canal Brooklyn, NY Completed 2015 10

The main tenet of our work is to set up a different type of relationship between ourselves and each of the elements of nature: soil, water, air, plants and animals. We design spaces for people, plants and all living things.

BAL/LABs within Balmori Associates, further pushes the boundaries of architecture, art and engineering: Green Roofs, Floating Islands, Temporary Landscapes, Forms of Representation, Zero Waste City, among others.

Our portfolio includes executed projects at all scales and award-winning competitions. It has garnered numerous awards for design excellence and sustainability. In 1998, Balmori Associates’ Master Plan won the international competition for the waterfront development of the Abandoibarra district of Bilbao, Spain.

In 2005, we designed the greenroof of Silvercup Studios in Queens, New York, the largest scientifically monitored green roof in the United States and studied the impact on water runoff. In 2015, our comprehensive urban stormwater management strategy for the city of Hoboken, NJ - Resist, Delay, Store and Discharge - won $230 million.

The old understanding of landscape and infrastructure as separate entities no longer works; they are today woven together due to our ecological concerns and they require a joint exploration of their new spatial and technical possibilities.

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5 James Corner Field Operations Principals James Corner Lisa Switkin Richard Kennedy Tatiana Choulika Isabel Castilla Sarah Astheimer Jayyun Jung Hong Zhou Karen Tamir 475 10th Avenue New York, NY 10018

Top The High Line New York, NY Section 1: 2009 Section 2: 2011 Section 3: Phase 1: 2014 Bottom Private Residence Nantucket, MA 2009 12

James Corner Field Operations, founded in 1999, is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City. Serving an international clientele, the practice is renowned for strong contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales, from large urban districts and complex post-industrial sites, to small well-crafted, detail design projects. In all of the work, there is a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm, informed by the ecology of both people and nature.

James Corner is the founder and director of Field Operations. With over 25 years of experience in the field, he directs all design projects in the office. Together with over 60 exceptionally talented design and planning professionals in the office – many of whom are international in origin and outlook, and have worked on a variety of important projects in other leading practices around the world –Field Operations’ creative expertise and professional resources are unsurpassed.

The practice sustains the highest levels of artistic creativity combined with professional responsiveness, building projects that are as imaginative and dynamic as they are responsive to client needs, communication, schedule, deadlines, cost, feasibility and ease of implementation. The ultimate aim is to bring beauty, engagement, health and vitality to the different kinds of environments in which people live and interact.

The range in project types in our portfolio is a direct function of our ability to think strategically in terms of ecology, economics, and programming, and tactically in terms of physical design and spatial definition.

James Corner Field Operations has published and exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale; the Lisbon Triennale; ArchiLAB, Paris; the Royal College of Art, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

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6 Jonathan Alderson Landscape Architects, Inc. Principal Jonathan Alderson 100e Lancaster Avenue Wayne, PA 19087

Top left Wildower Meadow Top right Reading Hospital Berks Copunty, PA 2015 Bottom Bragg Hill Garden, Sunrise 14

Jonathan Alderson Landscape Architects, Inc. is a design practice located in Wayne, Pennsylvania and focused passionately on innovative approaches to shaping land. Founded by Jonathan Alderson in 1998, our firm’s aim is to create environments that are indicative of client needs and goals, while providing attractive places to live, work and visit. We are committed to protecting the environment and are striving to produce the best of sustainable designs through storm water management, resource conservation, and habitat creation. We believe that the use of sustainable plantings and appropriate materials combined with a strong regard for site and ecology can lead to the creation of places that inspire exploration. As a firm, we prefer to see each project through from concept to completion to capitalize on our relationships with nurseries, craftspeople, and suppliers. Many of our designs develop out of an interpretation of local vernacular which comes from an intimate understanding of the region, its landscape, and its history.

Having worked on projects at a variety of scales, from large public gardens to small residential projects the firm embraces a multi-disciplinary design process. We work to develop meaningful designs and are excited to work with clients, other design professionals, and contractors in the process.

Through the process of collaboration with experts, we can ensure quality in our designs that are environmentally sensitive through the interpretation of layered inventory and analysis. We strive to incorporate native plant palette as well as appropriate materials to create sustainable spaces.

We have explored stormwater management using porous paths at Chanticleer Garden, rain gardens at the Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Center and the Lenfest Center, and green roofs at the Reading Health System Expansion. We have also expanded upon existing habitats, most notably at Longwood Gardens’ Meadow Garden.

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7 Ken Smith Workshop Principal Ken Smith 450 West 31st Street Fifth Floor New York, NY 10001

Ken Smith Workshop is an award winning landscape architecture firm committed to the design excellence of public spaces. Based in New York City, the firm is a national practice with projects across the United States – including substantial work in New York; significant projects in California, New Mexico, Iowa, and Florida; and internationally in India and Canada.

The firm is committed to creating landscapes, especially parks and other public spaces, as a way of improving the quality of urban life. The firm practices landscape design primarily in the realm of public space.

Typical design problems involve making landscape space within the context of existing, reworked, or complex sites. This requires a strategic approach in making the strongest conceptual landscapes within the limits and possibilities of the site’s infrastructure, context, and program. This leads to pushing beyond traditional landscape typologies of plaza, street, and garden to create landscapes that are hybridized from diverse traditions and influences of contemporary culture.

Top left East River Waterfront Esplanade: Pier 15, Pier 35, and Mussel Beach New York, NY 2004-2013 Bottom left Topiary New York, NY Right Museum of Modern Art New York, NY 16

Experience and experimentation are combined with the goal of producing landscapes of the highest conceptual and artistic quality. Emphasis is placed on providing personal service and addressing landscape problems. Each site, program, and client is dealt with individually, giving attention to developing solutions specific to each project.

Recent projects include the East River Waterfront Esplanade and Piers in New York City; Croton Reservoir Water Filtration Plant in the Bronx, NY; Anaheim Farmers Park, California; Cowles Commons, Des Moines, Iowa; and the New St. Pete Pier in Florida.

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8 Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP) believes that landscape architecture induces a positive effect on communities by providing an environment that Principal Martha Schwartz engenders freedom of thought, creativity and curiosity. It is from those beliefs and values that our 180 designs are realized. Over the years our approach Midwood Street has evolved with the changing environment and Brooklyn, NY ideals of our society while remaining innovative and 11225 forward-thinking; staying true to our convictions that landscape design is critical to the sustainability of our surroundings.

Martha Schwartz Partners

Our experience in creating innovative landscape solutions is grounded in four key ideals; placing value in extensive research into place, proposed vision and project goals to develop a ‘relevant’ project response; conviction to integrate our work within a collaborative team atmosphere; exploration of creative design solutions to solving project issues and; establishing a degree of flexibility in the end product to acknowledge the potential need for change as projects are progressively implemented over time.

Top left Davis Garden El Paso, TX Completed 1996 Top center City and Nature Master Garden Xi’an, China Completed 2011 Top right Vanke Center Shenzhen, China Completed 2013

The public realm landscape is the new stage for cultural events. In a city’s major civic open-spaces is expressed the cultural aspirations by which a society wishes to see itself and be seen by the world. The ability for the urban landscape of a city to provide the forum for the cultural life of a city is now of utmost importance, and the design quality of the environment is an equally crucial factor in whether a city or an individual project can achieve sustainability and reach its fullest potential.

Through design, we can create a “sense of place” and engender a sense of belonging and individuality.

Through design can we enable people to make an Bottom emotional connection to a place by imbuing it with Beiqijia character, memory, identity, orientation and Technology Business District individuality.

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9 Olin Partners Lucinda Sanders Susan K. Weiler Skip Graffam Hallie Boyce Richard Roark Laurie Olin Dennis Mcglade Richard Newton Chris Hanley Tiffany Beamer 150 South Independence Mall Suite 1123 Philadelphia, PA 19106

OLIN is a professional studio of more than 60 landscape architects, planners, and urban designers.

From our offices in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, we create distinguished landscapes and urban designs worldwide. Our work is predicated upon social engagement, craft, environmental responsibility, and timelessness. Our appreciation for the unique complexities of urbanity is paramount. Our award-winning projects cross boundaries of scale, typology, and site condition, yet are all driven by our central mission: to create places that enhance life.

Craft is integral to our practice. Conscientiously crafted landscapes have potential to be catalysts for human interaction, recreation, and community. We approach each project individually, basing design decisions upon the underlying expressive power of a particular site in conjunction with specific programmatic requirements. In all of our work, we carefully assess the distinguishing spatial characteristics of a site, its connections to surrounding areas, local traditions and history, the natural environment, and socio-cultural conditions. We synthesize and integrate our findings in new site elements and systems that we manipulate, amplify and layer to create expressive, resilient designs.

OLIN’s celebrated projects include Bryant Park in New York City, the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.

Top Pier 26 New York, NY In Progress Bottom Hunts Point Lifelines The Bronx, New York 2013-2014 20

OLIN fosters a culture of inquiry. We are committed to elevating landscape architecture through research, education, and technological advancement.

This work stimulates deep reflection on the design process, drives passion for exploration, encourages intellectual discourse, and provokes us to question assumptions which directly informs our project work.

Our research practice is deeply rooted in academia, going back to OLIN’s founding through the collaboration of two University of Pennsylvania professors.

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10 Oehme, vanSweden | OvS Partners Lisa E. Delplace Eric D. Groft Sheila A. Brady 800 G Street SE Washington, DC 20003

Oehme, van Sweden | OvS is a professional practice of landscape architecture based in Washington, DC. We are a diverse group of landscape architects, horticulturalists, designers, and creative thinkers. Our approach to garden design is based on a high-performance approach to sustainability and ecology and can be applied at any scale: residential, commercial, academic, and botanic gardens and arboreta.

Our gardens celebrate the untamed vigor of the American landscape. We reinterpret the land using an exuberant and daring approach, vividly blending the natural and the cultivated. Our work, shaped equally by art, science, and emotional connections, enhances the urban experience, enriches communities, reimagines institutions, and inspires relationships between people and nature.

We’re recognized for the New American Garden style. Seductive and audacious, the New American Garden is marked by a profusion of color, texture, and movement. The style honors the seasonal splendor of the American meadow while promoting its inherent ecological, sustainable, and aesthetic values.

Left Boardwalk House Sagaponack, NY Ongoing Top Prouts Neck Residence Prouts Neck, ME Completed 2010 Bottom Nantucket Residence Nantucket, MA Completed 2009 22

Our firm was established over four decades ago by landscape architectural pioneers Wolfgang Oehme (1930-2011) and James van Sweden (1930-2013).

Today, OvS is led by Principals Lisa Delplace, Chief Executive Officer; Sheila Brady, FASLA, Vice President; and, Eric Groft, FASLA, Vice President.

The firm’s style and body of work have been chronicled in a series of books. The latest in the series, The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design offers readers insight into the essence of inspired garden design. Previous titles include Architecture in the Garden (2002), Gardening with Nature (1997), Gardening with Water (1995), and Bold Romantic Gardens (1990 and 1998).

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11 Sikora Wells Appel Landscape Architecture President Joseph T. Sikora 8 Kings Highway West, Haddonfield, NJ 08033

Sikora Wells Appel is an award-winning landscape architectural firm located in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Established in 1979, our firm’s approach to design is rooted in an understanding of a community’s history and culture, a site’s context, and sustainability. We seek to emulate the timeless and innovative qualities of the firm’s history as we explore new approaches to design. Our work continues to be diverse with a focus on creating beautiful and sustainable spaces.

Our services include planning, landscape architecture, and urban design. We are committed to meeting the special needs of each individual client.

We endeavor to reach beyond the traditional boundaries of our field and act as the client’s advocate.

Our philosophy mandates that we approach each project as if it were our own.

Top left Longwood Gardens East Conservatory Plaza Kennett Square, PA Top right Roosevelt Plaza Park Pop-Up Camden, NJ Bottom Pennswood Village Newtown, PA 24

We have extensive experience in an array of projects. Our staff of ten is driven to work on projects that are unusually challenging and require creative problem solving. Our substantial portfolio includes institutional, academic, corporate, residential and public work reflects the diversity of our practices and interests. Much of our firm’s work is regional to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York.

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12 SWA Principals Gerdo Aquino Thomas Balsley 811 W 7th Street Los Angeles, CA 90018

SWA was founded in 1957 as Sasaki Walker & Associates; in 1973, the firm changed its name to SWA Group, and in that same year became one of the first companies on the West Coast to be owned by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)—a vehicle that has resulted in the company becoming 100% employee-owned. SWA expanded from a West Coast firm in the 1960s and ‘70s to a fully national and international firm by the 1980s and ‘90s.

SWA’s collaborative approach extends to our clients with whom we work and to colleagues with whom we explore new prototypes and new attitudes toward the man-made world. Our work has been recognized with more than 800 design awards, including the prestigious ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award (2005).

Despite being one of the largest firms of its type, SWA is organized into smaller studio-based offices that enhance creativity and client responsiveness.

In addition to bringing strong aesthetic, functional, and social design ideas to our projects, we’re also committed to integrating principles of environmental sustainability. At the core of our work is a passion for imaginative, solution-oriented design that adds value to land, buildings, cities, regions, and to people’s lives.

Top left Hunter’s Point South Park New York, NY Top right Milton Street Park Los Angeles, CA Bottom Buffalo Bayou Newtown, PA 26

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13 West 8 urban design & landscape architecture Directors Adriaan Geuze Martin Biewenga Edzo Bindels 333 Hudson Street New York, NY 10013

West 8 is an award-winning international office for urban design and landscape architecture, founded in 1987 with offices in Rotterdam, New York and Belgium. Over the last three decades West 8 has established itself as a leading practice with an international team of 70 architects, urban designers, landscape architects and industrial engineers. West 8’s New York office was established after winning an international design competition in 2006 for the design of Governors Island Park - a 172-acre island in the New York Harbor.

With a multi-disciplinary approach to complex design issues, West 8 has extensive experience in largescale urban master planning and design, landscape interventions, waterfront projects, parks, squares and gardens. We also develop concepts and visions for large-scale planning issues that address global warming, urbanization and infrastructure.

Top left Hunter’s Point South Park New York, NY Top right Milton Street Park Los Angeles, CA Bottom Buffalo Bayou Newtown, PA 28

Working on an international level from its start, West 8 developed projects all over the world in places such as Copenhagen, London, Moscow, New York, Madrid, Hamburg, Toronto, Amsterdam, Shanghai and Seoul. The office gained international recognition with projects that are the result of groundbreaking entries in important international competitions.

Recently won competitions include West Kowloon Cultural District Park (HK), Governors Island in New York (USA), Madrid Rio (ES), Sagrera Linea Park (ES), and Yongsan Park in Seoul (KR).

Amongst the numerous awards received by West 8 are the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™, the Honor Award of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the International Urban Landscape Gold Award (IULA), the Prix de Rome, the Dutch Maaskant Award, the Bijhouwer Award, the Green Pin, the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Architecture of The Mondriaan Fund.

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Projects 1 AGENCY Rebuild by Design Coastal New Jersey, Completed Competition in 2014 Changing Course Coastal Louisiana, Completed Competition in 2015 Gulf State Park Coastal Alabama, Completed Master Plan in 2016 2 ANDROPOGON Avalon Preserve and Park Head of the Harbor, NY Lewes Canalfront Park Lewes, DE – 2003 3 BALL-NOGUES STUDIO Healing Pavilion Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA - 2017 Maximilian’s Schell, Materials & Applications Los Angeles, CA, 2005 Not Whole Fence Southwest University Park, El Paso, TX, 2014 Orchard El Cariso Park, Sylmar, CA, 2015 Secondhand Geology Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, 2017 4 BALMORI ASSOCIATES Abandoibarra Master Plan, Waterfront Park Campa de los Ingleses Park, Plaza Euskadi, Bilbao, Spain, Completed 2012 Rebuild By Design: Comprehensive Strategy for Hoboken (RESIST, DELAY, STORE, DISCHAGE) Hoboken, NJ, Competition Winner 2015 Beale Street Landing Memphis, TN, Completed 2015 TBD: Grow With the Flow Pittsburgh, PA , Competition finalist 2018 GrowOnUs Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, NY, Completed 2015 Smithson Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island New York, NY, Completed 2005 Mobisle New York, NY, Competition finalist 2006 30

New York Police Academy Campus Queens, NY, Completed 2017 Faire des Ronds Dans l’Eau: Metis Garden Expo Grand Metis, Canada, Completed 2011 Kent Falls Trail Kent, CT Completed 2006 Blue roof + Green roof at 242 W53rd Street New York, NY, Under Construction 11th Street Bridge Park Washington, DC , Competition finalist 2014 5 JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS The High Line New York, NY, Section 1: 2009, Section 2: 2011, Section 3, Phase 1: 2014 Freshkills Park Staten Island, NY, (Schmul Park, 2012, other phases ongoing) Private Residence Nantucket, MA (2009) Shelby Farms Park Memphis, TN (Wolf River Pedestrian Bridge – 2010, Woodland Discovery Playground – 2011, Heart of the Park – 2017) Columbia University Muscota Marsh New York, NY (2013) Fire Island Arts Center Fire Island, NY (w/ BOFFO, Concept Design – 2016) 6 JONATHAN ALDERSON Longwood Meadow Garden Kennett Square, PA 2014 Meadow House Unionville, PA 2012 Sustainable House Wayne, PA 2015 7 KEN SMITH East River Waterfront Esplanade: Pier 15, Pier 35, and Mussel Beach New York, NY 2004-2013 New York Economic Development Corporation, client SHoP, architects Arup, engineering Tillotson Design Associates, lighting design HDR, civil engineering Ron Alaveras, ecologist

8 MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERS Beiqijia Technology Business District Beijing, China, Completion 2016 City and Nature Master Garden Xi’an, China, Completed 2011 Davis Garden El Paso, TX, Completed 1996 Fanqi Road Beijing, China, Completed 2014 Littman Wedding Deal, NJ, Completed 1993 Swiss Re Headquarters Munich, Germany, Completed 2002 Vanke Center Completed 2013 Winslow Farm Conservancy Hammonton, NJ, Completed 1996 9 OLIN Dilworth Park Philadelphia, PA, 2006–2014 Philadelphia 30th Street Station District Plan Philadelphia, PA, 2014–2016 Festival Pier Philadelphia, PA, In Progress Hunts Point Lifelines The Bronx, New York, 2013-2014 Foglietta Plaza Philadelphia, PA, 2016-2017 The Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden Philadelphia, PA, 2004-2009 The Barnes Foundation Philadelphia, PA, 2008-2012 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA, 2003 The Bud and Susie Rogers Garden at the Akron Art Museum Akron, OH, 2015 – 2016 Pier 26 New York, NY, In Progress Washington Canal Park Washington, DC, 2009-2012 Mill River Park and Greenway Stamford, CT | 2005–2013 Pier 26 New York, NY | In Progress Hunts Point Lifelines The Bronx, New York | 2013-2014 10 OvSla Boardwalk House Sagaponack, NY, Ongoing Georgica Association Road Wainscott, NY, Ongoing Tokeneke Trail Darien, CT, Ongoing Prouts Neck Residence Prouts Neck, ME, Completed 2010 Nantucket Residence Nantucket, MA, Completed 2009 Kiawah Island Residence Kiawah Island, SC, Completed 2009

11 SIKORA WELLS APPEL Natural Landscapes, Pennswood Village, Newtown, PA Longwood Gardens Webb Farm Ecological Restoration, Kennett Square, PA High School Park, Elkins Park, PA Contemporary Landscapes: Longwood Gardens East Conservatory Plaza Kennett Square, PA Delaware Technical Community College – Stanton Courtyard, Newark, DE Capital Health Medical System, Hopewell Township, NJ League Island Park at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA Water in the Landscapes Albert Einstein Healing Garden, Montgomery, PA Capital Health Medical System, Hopewell Township, NJ Roosevelt Plaza Park H2O, Camden, NJ Temple University Founder’s Garden, Philadelphia, PA Art in the Landscapes: Roosevelt Plaza Park Pop-Up, Camden, NJ Temple University Founder’s Garden, Philadelphia, PA University of Pennsylvania Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA Roosevelt Plaza Park – The Healthy Pop-up, Camden, NJ 12 SWA Hunter’s Point South Park Long Island City, NY 2013 Belgrade Waterfront, Belgrade Serbia Rivrerside Park South New York Milton Street Park Los Angeles 13 WEST 8 The Blue Dunes – An answer to the Rebuild by Design Competition The Eastern Seaboard, United States, 2013-2014 Governors Island New York, USA, 2007-2016

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