SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC

For decades, Bruce Beach in Pensacola, Florida, has been a key site for coastal recreation, with a rich history of use by the city’s Black community. As part of Bruce Beach's redesign, SCAPE developed a series of five double-sided signs, collaborating with local historians and community advisors to identify priorities and curate content for the signs.   The interpretive signage details the site's marshy beginnings, its industrial history, its evolution as a recreational hub, and its reopening today. The signs also explore the origin and lasting significance of Bruce Beach for Black, Indigenous, and Creole members of the Pensacola community. The signage lines the park's main promenade, inviting visitors to engage with the history of the site as they approach the water's edge.   Congratulations to the team, our client, and collaborators for wrapping Phase 1 of Bruce Beach construction!   🔗Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e6Zddx9t   —   Client: City of Pensacola, Florida   Collaborators: University of West Florida Historic Trust: Dr. Jamin Wells, Joe Vinson Community Advisory Group: Councilwoman Teniadé Broughton, Pastor C. Marcel Davis, Michelle Lowe, Tony McCray, Jr., Robin Reshard, Marilyn Wiggins, Dr. Marion Williams HDR

SCAPE is currently seeking a Landscape Designer and an Associate Landscape Architect to join us in our New York office. Landscape Designer: https://lnkd.in/eRd94ZKs We’re seeking a well-rounded junior Landscape Designer or Landscape Architect. Ideal candidates will have 1-3 three years of experience in the landscape architecture field, with an emphasis on technical documentation. Associate Landscape Architect: https://lnkd.in/eYzqSc42 We’re seeking a mid- to senior-level Landscape Architect/Project Manager. Ideal candidates should have 7-10 years of experience in the landscape architecture field with an emphasis on project management, technical documentation, landscape construction, and ecological design. ⏰ Applications are due by July 26, 2024.

Earlier this summer, Bruce Beach—a new 11-acre park in Pensacola, Florida—opened to the public! The Bruce Beach site has a rich history of use by Pensacola's Black community, home to the city's only Black beach during segregation. Through community activism during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, a safer swimming facility was built to serve Black Pensacolans. Opening in 1957, Bruce Pool was "the place to be" in the summers until its closure in 1975. In 2018, SCAPE created a framework plan for the downtown waterfront of Pensacola, including design concepts for two catalytic projects that reconnect Pensacolans with the water's edge. Bruce Beach is the first of these projects to be implemented, where waterfront access is particularly important because of the community's longstanding advocacy for a publicly accessible waterfront. SCAPE developed the concept design for the park, shown here, facilitated community engagement, and provided design review of the final project. Local partner HDR led the park design through construction. Phase 1 of Bruce Beach is now open for public use with Phase 2 completion expected in fall of 2024. Congratulations to Mayor Reeves for bringing the public back to Bruce Beach! 🔗Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gUWJJUZv 📷: Ribbon cutting photos via City of Pensacola Government — Bruce Beach Client: City of Pensacola, Florida Collaborators: HDR, Angela Kyle, James Lima Planning + Development Pensacola Waterfront Framework Plan Client: Quint and Rushy Studer, City of Pensacola, Florida Collaborators: James Lima Planning + Development

Now open to the public, the 12-acre Ohio Creek Watershed Resilience Park stands poised to help residents adapt to flooding and sea-level rise threatening the coastline of Norfolk, Virginia.   Norfolk has one of the highest rates of sea-level rise on the East Coast. Through extensive engagement with two of the highest flood-risk neighborhoods nearest the site, Grandy Village and Chesterfield Heights, SCAPE designed a resilience park that ties into existing programming while restoring historic native ecosystems throughout the site.   The resilience park is part of the larger Ohio Creek Watershed Project by the City of Norfolk, which celebrated completion in June of 2023.   🔗Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g5KWxwFh   📷: Glenn Bashaw   — CLIENT City of Norfolk, Virginia – Office of Resilience   COLLABORATORS Arcadis Waggonner & Ball Moffatt & Nichol VHB

Join us in celebrating our client, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy (GCC), for their recognition as this year's American Society of Landscape Architects Olmsted Medal recipient! The GCC was honored for their outstanding environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship. Starting as a smaller organization in 2006, the GCC has grown its reach, uniting developers, city planners, and agency stakeholders around a bold positive vision for the canal and its community. Working closely with GCC on the Gowanus Lowlands Master Plan, SCAPE has witnessed their commitment to advocacy beyond the built product into the realm of stewardship and maintenance. We're proud to partner with GCC on their impactful work. Congratulations! 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eS2dMQh9

Join us in celebrating our client, Carol Coletta, who has been honored as this year's recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architects LaGasse Medal! Carol Coletta, President and CEO of Memphis River Parks Partnership, is recognized for her exemplary contributions to the management and conservation of natural resources and public landscapes. Carol is a revered figure in the world of parks and civic open space and an indefatigable advocate for a vibrant, connected, and equitable public realm. She spearheaded the community engagement, public-private coalition building, and communication around the 31-acre Tom Lee Park, designed by SCAPE and Studio Gang, which reopened to the Memphis community to great fanfare and emotion in 2023. We're proud to collaborate with Carol and Memphis River Parks Partnership to advance their mission. Congratulations! 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eS2dMQh9 📷: Memphis River Parks Partnership (1), Alex Shanksy & Memphis Tourism (2), Tom Harris (3)

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts recently celebrated their one-year anniversary of reopening to the public! Since its redesign, we've had the opportunity to see the stormwater management system in action—a true synthesis of landscape and architecture by SCAPE and Studio Gang.   The petal-shaped stormwater gardens at the museum's southern entrance extend its architectural language outdoors, stretching out into garden-like gathering spaces. These petals capture, dissipate, and direct stormwater that runs off the iconic folded-plate roof.   The stormwater gardens are planted with native water-tolerant perennials, shrubs, and trees that support habitat for pollinators and migratory birds. Throughout the site, surface runoff is captured in bioswales and filtered through lush, vegetated areas.   The museum was also recently honored with a 2024 AIA Architecture Award! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dadaZGHA   📷: Video by Studio Gang    — Client: Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts   Collaborators: Studio Gang Polk Stanley Wilcox Nabholz Corporation Pepper Construction Group Doyne Construction Rotolo Consultants, Inc.  

In Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland, New Zealand), the regenerative Te Ara Tukutuku project is in full swing. Over the next decade, the former petroleum storage site will be converted into a 25-acre mixed-use development and waterfront park that is deeply rooted in the cultural identity of Mana Whenua, local Māori tribes.   In recent months, the design team has organized on-the-ground efforts informed by indigenous knowledge that aim to restore the urban marine ecosystem surrounding the site.   In April, Goat Island Marine Discovery Centre hosted three scientist-led marine education days at Wynyard Quarter. These interactive events engaged tamariki (youth) through touch tanks and 3D printed rockpool modules which emulate natural coastline formations and organisms. These rockpool structures are being tested at the Westhaven Seawall, located adjacent to Te Ara Tukutuku’s site on the western side, to help inform the project’s coastal edge design.   🔗 Head to our website to learn more! — 📷: Ethan Reid, Tama Whiting   Client: Eke Panuku Development Auckland Collaborators: LandLAB_ WARREN AND MAHONEY Mott MacDonald (supported by DONE) Stellar Projects Beca Fresh Concept

Last Friday was the BSLA/Boston Society of Landscape Architects Fieldday conference! SCAPE's Director of Landscape Planning Laura Marett, RLA presented Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll with a design award certificate on behalf of BSLA for SCAPE's project, "Resilient Together: El Punto." The "Resilient Together: El Punto" project outlines a multifaceted resilience plan for The Point neighborhood in Salem, an environmental justice community. As the former mayor of Salem, Driscoll highlighted SCAPE's El Punto efforts as an example of the important role of landscape architects in climate adaptation during her opening remarks at the conference. The plan, produced with Woods Hole Group, Inc. as prime, was this year's only recipient of an Excellence Award in the BSLA Design Awards.   🔗 Learn more about the project here! https://lnkd.in/e3fa_gZT

Applications for our Fall 2024 Internship program are now open! Our interns are fully integrated into our project teams and assist in all aspects of SCAPE’s work—from research, design, and engagement, to drafting, 3D modelling, and rendering. ⏰ Deadline: July 15, 2024 (11:59pm PT).