Ayers Saint Gross team members were honored to serve among the many volunteers who helped plant marsh grasses and coastal shrubs for the National Aquarium’s new Harbor Wetlands exhibit. Featuring a learning dock and a network of floating islands, this wetland exhibit is designed to reintroduce a salt marsh ecosystem back into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and is scheduled to open later this year. Ayers Saint Gross landscape architects have been working with the National Aquarium on the design for the exhibit since 2018, as an expansion of our sustainable floating wetland prototype designed with Biohabitats, McLaren Engineering Group, and Kovacs, Whitney & Associates in continuation of Studio Gang’s EcoSlip concept.
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