Category Archives: Landscape

Teaching Garden

At the main campus the Children’s Day School students raise chickens and sheep and tend to fruit and vegetable crops. The 601 Dolores roof deck carries on the school’s farm and garden tradition. In the planted zone that traces the deck’s perimeter, sedums and succulents on undulating topography usher n [...]

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The Interior Landscape

Living or metaphorical landscapes can enrich workplace design. Bringing the outside in might be seen as a uniquely Californian approach. But it can also be seen as a manifestation of broader themes of transparency in contemporary culture.

Heritage Trees

There are many trees on the property (mostly Coast Live Oak and Bay Laurel) and several are large enough and old enough to be designated by the City of Larkspur as heritage trees. Unfortunately, sudden oak death had killed or infected a good portion of them. Arborists call this a “senescent” or declining fore [...]

Green Wall

The simplicity of the crisp design of the home is juxtaposed with the raw and natural qualities of the surrounding landscape. A densely vegetated series of stacked stone walls carefully sculpt a new approach to the home while maintaining the greenery and natural quality of the hillside. An irrigation system runs throughout t [...]

Watershed

SHED overlooks Foss Creek, a tributary of the Russian River and the focus of an ongoing restoration initiative led by Russian Riverkeeper, a nonprofit working to conserve and protect the river and its watershed. To minimize SHED’s impact, Russian Riverkeeper’s experts assisted with the design of the Rain Garden, a [...]