DISTINCTIVE LANDSCAPING - WING'S POINT RESIDENCE, CHARLOTTE, VT. The challenge was to transform two parcels into one, serving as a vacation camp for our clients’ extended family. The site features trees, native boulders, ledges, towering cedars, and the constant draw of a wild Lake Champlain beach shoreline. We located the guest cottage directly adjacent to a seasonal wetland, celebrating the wetland, the barrier dune of beach stone, and distant views of Lake Champlain The new road now loops the perimeter, passing through woodlands and meadows, revealing and disguising views. It grazes by the house, newly constructed guesthouse and future studio, as if the loop itself is the destination. The pedestrian trails provide a ½ mile loop through all of the diverse landscapes found on the property. Working with native local materials, beach stone became paths, driftwood became bridges and railings, and a waterlogged stump became the patio table. Fallen cedars were cut into a woodpile privacy fence. Native plant associations inspired our plant selections.

HERITAGE LANDSCAPES LLC, MELLON SQUARE: PRESERVATION, MANAGEMENT & INTERPRETATION PLAN, PITTSBURG, PA. The project documented Mellon Square, demonstrating its significance as a creative work and leading mid-20th Century landscape: Nationally-Significant Modern Masterwork: Pioneering landscape architects Simonds & Simonds worked in collaboration with architects Mitchell & Ritchey to design this important green gathering space within Pittsburgh’s downtown core during the Pittsburgh Renaissance I. Granddaddy of Green Roofs: Mellon Square is one of the earliest examples of a plaza constructed over a subterranean parking facility with the design concept dating to a 1946 exhibition and the construction completed in 1955. Today, the experience of Mellon Square’s designed landscape is muted and incomplete. Continual use and abuse, and diminished maintenance pose significant challenges. Drainage and soil failures have damaged pavement and killed vegetation, pest control is an issue, and maintenance needs to increase. Many original historic features are in need of repair and replacement. Decline of physical features, such as the lush vegetation and bubbling tiled fountains, have diminished the aesthetic and experiential qualities of the Square. The Mellon Square Preservation, Interpretation & Management Plan envisions restoration. The plan promotes enhanced sustainability and provides a rich interpretive agenda for the Mellon Square landscape. A comprehensive program of projects, diverse use and suitable events, educational elements and sustainable management is detailed with accompanying cost projections. Priority items will initiate renewal and, over time, restore this important landscape.

HERITAGE LANDSCAPES - CAMP HILL CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT, HARPER'S FERRY NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, HARPER'S FERRY WEST VIRGINIA. The Camp Hill CLR Parts 1 and 2 is a research and documentation based report that respects historic features and character while guiding future interventions. By carefully studying, synthesizing and presenting the historic record the project makes a complex and important history accessible. Detailed findings of the historical research catalog an evolution of notable events in American history with accompanying period plans. First improvements at Camp Hill took place in the 1840s, when armory superintendent’s and paymaster’s quarters were constructed on opposite ends of Fillmore Street. By the late 1850s Harpers Ferry and Camp Hill witnessed several significant events in American History including John Brown’s Raid, the American Civil War. These military uses were followed by the missionary Freedman’s School and the founding of Storer College, one of the first African American colleges in the nation. Through periods of heavy and light use, from lushly vegetated to a ground plane trampled under soldiers feet, the Camp Hill landscape has evolved with each period contributing to its present condition and character. The recording of existing conditions and analyzing continuity and change establishes a transparent, complex basis for future stewardship and interventions. The recommendations are fully cognizant of funding and staffing limitation while achieving the principle goals of visitor access and understanding of the Camp Hill cultural landscape.

HERITAGE LANDSCAPES - LONGUE VUE LANDSCAPE RENEWAL PLAN FOR KATRINA RECOVERY, NEW ORLEANS, LA. The overriding project goal was to develop a landscape recovery road map to guide human and financial resource use in a time of severe constraints. Longue Vue House & Gardens is a National Historic Landmark and premier project of renowned garden and landscape designer Ellen Biddle Shipman for clients Edith & Edgar Stern, designed and constructed from 1939 to 1965. Landscape preservation documentation and planning completed in 1997 was the basis for the project landscape architects modestly funded and pro-bono post-disaster planning effort. The Longue Vue Landscape Renewal Plan:1.Envisions incremental, comprehensive renewal to recapture the historic designed landscape 2. Uses documented historic landscape character as the compass Seeks ultimate recapture of overall feeling, quality and details 3. Addresses short term needs and interim strategies within severe limitations 4. Directs attention to original plantings affected by storm damage, away from non-original ones to focus human/fiscal resources

SHEPARD BUTLER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - STONE POOL. Located on a rolling Northern Vermont mountain top, Stone Pool’s gracious arc set within an existing land depression awards the client with sweeping views towards the adjacent mountains and a pool that is integrated and inspired by the land. To enforce the concept of an understated expression of the land, pavement around the pool was sourced from a local quarry and the quantity was kept to a minimum allowing the existing landscape to flow visually and physically into the pool area. Large native stone slabs were hand picked by SBLA from a local mountain and then strategically stacked within the south side of the arcing landform creating platforms for sun bathing and socializing. A set of irregular stone steps weave through the platforms leading one up to a niche with stone benches and a fire pit integrated into the pavement. A stone terrace with native plant pockets for Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis) trees, Hay-Scented Fern (Dennstaedtia punctlilobula), and Sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina) connect the pool to an existing barn that was converted into a pool house. A dive stone, stone water fountain, and stone sculpture continue the expression and provide elements of exploration and interaction for the client’s two young children.

T.J. BOYLE ASSOCIATES - NESHOBE FARM, PLANNED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Neshobe Farm is a network of pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, scattered among open space, wildlands, and agricultural areas. Its homes are designed to both provide privacy and maximize community involvement. The homes, nestled into the land, are designed to echo traditional New England vernacular architecture while utilizing modern green building practices, including energy efficiency and alternative energy production. While it partakes of the best aspects of the “New Urbanist” movement, Neshobe Farm is more properly called “New Ruralist,” since it incorporates the rural values of agricultural production, natural beauty, small-scale economics, and community-based self-sufficiency. The Neshobe Community will be organized as three entities: 1. The Neshobe Farm: to administer all agricultural uses of the land and promote the farm as an educational model. The farm will seek to employ farm workers, entrepreneurs, value-added agricultural related industry leaders and educators 2. Neshobe Village: The residential and real estate component that incorporates the community center, the Neshobe Plateau 3. Neshobe Institute: A nonprofit founded for the purposes of education and research in the area of holistic and sustainable community

STANTEC - A VISION PLAN FOR BOURNE'S DOWNTOWN: THE VILLAGE OF BUZZARD'S BAY. The vision plan evaluates and defines opportunities for higher-density, mixed-use development, infrastructure enhancements, and recreational improvements throughout downtown. The plan’s contents include: 1. Short- and long-term conceptual redevelopment plans for the downtown area 2. Site-specific perspective drawings, illustrating existing conditions and future development scenarios 3. Existing conditions analyses with issues and opportunities by transect. 4. Build-out analyses to determine specific redevelopment sites and potential impacts on infrastructure needs 5. Fiscal impact assessments to determine potential costs and benefits of redevelopment scenarios 6. Rezoning assessments and recommendations to match the community’s vision for higher-density mixed use 7. Detailed implementation strategies including actions, leaders, and partners potential funding sources

DISTINCTIVE LANDSCAPING - FAIRY TALE HOUSE. By relocating the neighborhood road, the client was able to gain much needed space for gardening, outdoor recreation and private family gatherings.   A relocated antique cedar rail fence fronted by daylilies and backed with flowering shrubs give the new road an old and pleasant feel. We expanded and relocated large beds of tough native perennials that had adapted to their site.   A winding brick path and generous lawn paths from the cottage to the meadow gave the small garden landscape a spacious and flowing feel. The new streambed, created with truckloads of native stream boulders solves a seasonal drainage problem aesthetically as well as ecologically.  The new vegetable garden and orchard are a great source of pleasure.