Brackenridge Hospital Tranquility Garden - Austin, Texas
Firm Profile Founded on a commitment to design excellence, TBG Partners is the premier landscape architecture and planning firm in Texas. The firm’s dedication to innovative design has resulted in some of the most distinguished landscape projects in Texas and the nation. An employee-owned corporation, TBG has enjoyed remarkable success thanks to the firm’s extraordinary talent. This dedicated group of 80-plus professionals based throughout Texas includes experts in landscape architecture, planning and environmental graphic design who are led by the firm’s 17 principals. TBG creates places that celebrate life, resulting in living outdoor legacies in the areas of healthcare, higher education, hospitality, historic sites, corporate campuses, civic projects, mixed-use developments and residential communities. TBG’s award-winning and internationally recognized projects demonstrate the value and success of the firm’s approach.
Healthcare and Wellness Westminster Manor - Austin, Texas TBG is creating therapeutic garden spaces for the expansion of Westminster Manor, an independent- and assisted-living residential development. The design accommodates the complex needs of residents and includes a memory garden with additional therapy gardens to create a comfortable outdoor open space; it is also gated and secured to allow for safe, 24hour garden access. Calming sensory stimuli that promote healthy physical activity help facilitate wellness among resident Alzheimer’s patients.
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Highland Springs - Dallas, Texas Highland Springs is a high-density retirement community located in north Dallas County. TBG provided planning and design services that will result in a community integrating two amenity centers, walking trails, a gazebo and a number of courtyards among 12 intertwined residential structures. Condominiums of varying heights emphasize ease of mobility for residents of varying capabilities and are planned to be linked by a series of interior structures that provide interior connectivity at all stories, allowing access throughout the community.
Children’s Medical Center of Dallas - Dallas, Texas Providing patients, staff and visitors with a series of restorative outdoor spaces designed to promote healing, the garden at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas is complete and recently opened for use. The multifaceted healing garden is rooted in evidenced-based design principles and offers both passive and active outdoor spaces with engaging, sensory-stimulating design features. The garden not only helps the facility meet its rapidly growing pediatric needs, but also emphasizes the benefits and efficacy of providing meaningful outdoor opportunities to rejuvenate, explore and stimulate the senses. The roughly 1.25-acre healing garden affords safe and secure opportunities for patients, their family members and staff to enjoy serene moments amid lush surroundings or more active play and discovery. Accommodating a wide range of emotions and uses, the garden includes elements such as a children’s art wall carved from local limestone with tactile features, serene seating areas surrounded by cast glass art panels, artistic dancing dragonflies, an outdoor café and a babbling brook accented with an artist’s interpretation of fish swimming upstream.
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Baylor Interfaith Garden – Dallas, Texas At Dallas’ Baylor Hospital, an overgrown and underutilized garden area provided a grand opportunity to create a unique and sacred outdoor space. The design creates an inviting therapeutic environment with distinct areas for reflection, prayer/ meditation and outdoor dining associated with a nearby café. Integrated art exists throughout the healing garden and includes sculptures as well as colored cast-glass accents embedded in concrete paths, which meander through the lawn and into the reflection plaza. Additional elements include a small reflective fountain with a hand-carved semi-circular bench, native plants and stone paving.
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Brackenridge Tranquility Garden – Austin, Texas At Austin’s University Medical Center Brackenridge, the oldest public hospital in Texas, TBG is developing tranquil, multipurpose garden spaces from an existing gravel parking lot and fire lane area. The half-acre garden will be an inviting outdoor space for families and hospital staff, as well as students of the Clinical Education Center, to relax, study, eat and interact in pleasant surroundings. The garden will also be capable of hosting hospital events and will include a formal lawn area complemented by private garden spaces, fountains, seating, large shade trees and ornamental trees, extensive planting and shade structures. In addition, miniature green roofs will be incorporated atop the facility’s existing vent structures.
Cook Children’s Medical Center - Fort Worth, Texas TBG created a design for a new playground at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth that provides an engaging play environment with multiple uses. Design components include an inviting garden seating area, featuring colored and textured surfaces, that is accessible from convenient pathways. A soft-surface track will envelope a multipurpose play lawn with four-square boards and post mounts for volleyball or badminton courts. A soft-surface play area will offer distinct play areas for 2- to 5-year-olds and 5- to 12-year-olds. Additional elements include a basketball court, decorative fencing, benches, hopscotch, an art/movie wall and plant materials.
Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas - Austin, Texas Dell Children’s is an award-winning model of sustainability emphasizing nature’s restorative powers through innovative healing spaces that facilitate recovery. The hospital’s six themed courtyards encompass 30,000 square feet and illuminate interiors, reducing daytime lighting and energy consumption, and incorporate plant species from the six ecoregions within the hospital’s 46-county service area. Defined by passive and active spaces, a three-acre healing garden wrapping the facility’s posterior provides further therapeutic benefits. Dell is the world’s first LEED Platinum medical facility and a sterling paradigm for healthcare design.
The Woman’s Hospital of Texas - Houston, Texas TBG provided campus master planning and landscape architecture services for The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, an acute care hospital for women and newborns. TBG created a visual gateway to the hospital punctuated by an art plaza located at the terminus of a major thoroughfare. Surrounded by planting beds, the plaza design incorporates a renovated tiered fountain as its centerpiece. TBG’s design provided for a large sculpture titled “New Life,” giving the hospital a dramatic signature.
Dell Children’s Hospital of Central Texas - Austin, Texas
Brian Ott, ASLA, LEED AP Managing Principal Brian Ott has been an integral member of TBG’s Austin office for more than 19 years. Brian leads the healthcare practice line and has played an integral role in developing therapeutic environments and renowned projects. He and his teams combine evidence-based design principles and sustainable techniques to create restorative environments that facilitate well-being. Brian leads TBG’s Austin office as Managing Principal and works on a diverse array of project types. Brian also participated in the Healthcare Design Professional Development Certification Program at the Chicago Botanic Garden. This certification strengthened his expertise in the design of healing environments, through the study of the latest research demonstrating the benefits of healing gardens. EDUCATION Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Texas A&M University, 1991 REGISTRATION Landscape Architect - State of Texas, 1997 Landscape Architect - State of New York, 2008 USGBC LEED Accredited Professional, 2003
AFFILIATIONS American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Urban Land Institute (ULI) International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) US Green Building Council (USGBC)
PROJECTS Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas - Austin, Texas St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital - Bayside, New York Ronald McDonald House of Charity - Austin, Texas Scott & White Medical Center Expansion - Temple, Texas Westminster Manor - Austin, Texas Texas State Veterans Home - Tyler, Texas Stone Oak Rehabilitation Center - San Antonio, Texas Advanced Micro Devices Lone Star Campus - Austin, Texas Austin Bergstrom International Airport - Austin, Texas Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa - Bastrop, Texas Town Lake Park - Austin, Texas Market Street - The Woodlands, Texas The Domain II - Austin, Texas University of Texas at Austin Biomedical Sciences Building - Austin, Texas
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