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This year, Sasaki leaders were selected to participate in panels at the 2024 American Society of Landscape Architects National Conference, taking place from October 6-9th in Washington, DC. Panel topics include the carbon potential of soils, climate action, equity, and more. Learn more about the speaker schedules and presentation topics: https://lnkd.in/eRrc8PZ2 We look forward to seeing you at #ASLA2024! 🌱

Seven years ago, we began an incredible journey of planning and design for Greenwood Community Park and BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo. Now, we are thrilled to announce the grand opening of Phase 1 this Saturday, October 5th, 2024! Partnering with BREC, the city, and the community, we’re proud to have brought this space to life—guided by the vision of over 5,000 community inputs. This park is a testament to collective imagination and features key attractions like: 🌳 A scenic bayou promenade 🧸 A Louisiana-themed adventure playground (complete with giant black bear sculptures!) 🐾 A revitalized zoo Beyond its beauty, the park is designed to lower the 100-year flood elevation, expand the tree canopy by 200%, and restore ecological health. Now, we invite everyone to join us for a day of fun and celebration. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this dream a reality. Let’s celebrate this milestone together! Find out more: https://lnkd.in/dKUH25gU #GreenwoodCommunityPark #BatonRougeZoo #BREC #AdventurePlayground #ParkDesign #Sasaki

We’re excited to announce that Sasaki’s very own Alison Nash, Sustainability Coordinator, is running for First Vice President/2025 President of the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) this fall! 🎉🌱 Alison’s leadership at Sasaki has been characterized by her deep passion for integrating sustainability and resilience across our design practice. She’s a true change agent, inspiring our interdisciplinary teams to deliver positive environmental outcomes and contributing to tools like our Carbon Conscience platform. Her vision for the future of the BSA focuses on fostering deeper connections between design professionals and the communities we serve, with a strong emphasis on equity, health, and low-carbon design solutions. Join us in supporting Alison’s candidacy as she continues to push boundaries in the architecture world and advocate for a regenerative, inclusive future! Find out more: https://lnkd.in/dxVzNuYS #Sustainability #ArchitectureLeadership #BSAPresidentElect #BSA #CarbonConscience

🏅 Shaping Campus Experiences Through Sport Facility Design 🏅 When working with academic institutions on the design of athletics, recreation and wellness facilities, we are often faced with the challenge of knitting large spaces into sensitive campus contexts. Through creative organization of building programs, contextually-responsive massing and material selection, and thoughtful landscape interventions, we are able to meet the dimensional requirements of these spaces while also reducing their perceived scale and impact on campus. For Deerfield Academy, we addressed a complex series of site constraints by stacking the program on three levels to take advantage of the topography and maximize views to the hills. The building form and material choices draw from the vernacular architecture of the surrounding historic village. At Middlebury College, the competition level of the field house sits eight feet below grade which mitigates the scale of the large volume facing the campus core while also allowing pedestrian level views into the venue from an exterior campus walk. The Racquet Center at Princeton University, which is nearing construction completion, inserts a sensitively-scaled bar of the program in front of a larger competition volume to create a gradual transition from the campus to the project’s indoor and outdoor competition venues. #SasakiDesign #SportsFacilityDesign #AthleticsAndWellness #CampusDesign #SustainableDesign

Feast your eyes on this recent office transformation. Seeking to relocate their growing high-energy team, Toast came to Sasaki to design their future office headquarters. Sasaki's interior design team transformed the subleased existing office space into an environment that features a variety of flexible work areas, meeting rooms, and a café that showcase the Toast brand and support their teams. The new 125,000 sf space creates destinations to promote movement, activity, and community across the seven floors. To make the space uniquely Toast and celebrate their brand, Sasaki’s environmental graphic designers developed graphic interventions tailored to intended uses of different spaces. See more of the project here: https://lnkd.in/ecw7YXXY

At Sasaki, remediation is both a tool for restoring damaged landscapes and reimagining stronger, more vibrant futures for the communities they serve. How can neglected industrial landscapes encourage us to think creatively about managing industrial waste and creating new opportunities for recreation and learning? Read more about our work at Bonnet Springs Park and The Ellinikon–two park projects that harness remediation as a tool for communal and ecological regeneration: https://lnkd.in/eBDn9qpc 🖊 by Nanase Shirokawa

Now in the fourth year at our 110 Chauncy studio, we are reflecting on our design decisions following the office renovation, recognizing that every project is an opportunity to address climate change and build resilience in our communities. Sasaki's new studio is a holistically designed space that supports our firm’s interdisciplinary and sustainable practice through its site selection, mechanical systems, use of low-carbon materials, and daily operations. The project was recently recognized by the IIDA New England design awards as a winning workspace. By choosing an existing building in Downtown Boston, we maximize opportunities for public transit and active commuting. Renovating the stairs and elevators, and incorporating the lowest-carbon materials while reusing existing furniture, we demonstrated a significant reduction in embodied carbon in the interior fit out compared with standard class A office spaces. Additionally, 110 Chauncy is now among the first high-rise existing building renovations in the city to install all-electric systems. Read more about sustainability stories at 110 Chauncy: https://ow.ly/5Zfr50TrVRH

"We have a responsibility to create landscapes that not only inspire, but actively contribute to the health of our planet," says Michael Grove, FASLA. Sasaki joins the world's most influential landscape architecture firms to achieve the goals laid out in the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan, most notably a commitment to a zero-emissions profession by 2040. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ei3uGmiG

The proposal to build Hudson Yards West by Related Companies and Wynn Resorts represents a once-in-a-generation commitment to provide significant quality of life improvements for the neighborhood and enormous economic opportunity for the entire city. The centerpiece of the development is Hudson Green, designed by Sasaki and Hollander Design Landscape Architects, the new public garden park atop the Western Rail Yards will include a mix of open lawns, gardens, playscapes, and shaded groves, while Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is leading the master plan. Hudson Green takes inspiration from New York’s great legacy of dynamic parks and public open spaces. Reimagining a village green, the design creates shared open areas revealed through immersive landscapes. A series of gardens and open spaces create a vibrant park for the surrounding neighborhoods, an oasis for visitors to the city and for all New Yorkers. “The history and vibrancy of New York is most readily felt on the city’s streets, on the ground that connects us,” explains Philip Dugdale, Sasaki landscape architect and Associate Principal. “It’s this everyday surface that we often overlook. Hudson Green builds a new common ground, a richly layered landscape that brings us together, surprises us, and creates moments of rest and wonder.” 📷: ATCHAIN, Brick Visual, and Binyan Studios

Today we celebrate the opening of the new South Campus Residence Hall and Dining Center at the University of Connecticut! This is the first capital project born out of Sasaki’s 2019 Campus Housing Plan. Bringing together architecture, landscape, and interiors, our integrated design creates new outdoor spaces for recreation and relaxation, as well as a new hub for student life.