Portland, Oregon.
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Survey day on the Mendocino bluff, before a single line was drawn
Most landscapes fail for reasons that were visible on day one: the wrong soil, water arriving faster than the design assumed, a maintenance load nobody costed. We start with measurement, so the drawing answers the site rather than the mood board.
Year six at Halstead — planting closed, maintenance halved
Every project leaves with a monitoring plan, and we report against it annually. That means gallons retained, acres under stewardship, survival rates at year three — numbers a board can read.
It also means we find out when something is not working while there is still time to fix it. Establishment is the part of a landscape most studios are not there for.
2.4M
Gallons of stormwater retained on site each year
310
Acres restored or under active stewardship
14
Years of establishment monitoring on record
96%
Native plant survival at year three
“Working with Landscape was like finally hearing our own argument said back to us clearly. We had been talking about this site for four years. It took one section drawing to end the conversation.”
“They told us which parts of our brief were wrong before they told us what they would draw. That is worth more than a nice render.”
“The committee approved it because it looked like the campus. It works because it does not behave like the campus used to.”
“We assumed people wanted the lawn. They wanted the shade. Landscape worked that out in the first week of interviews.”
“They gave us less programme than we asked for and more room than we knew what to do with. That was the right call.”
