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TZU CHI BOSTON CENTER
NEWTON, MA
2012

GV worked with a diverse client group, dozens of community members and a number of city agencies to develop a master plan for this half-acre site. The design connects gardens, woodlands, a wetland, a lawn terrace and a small playground through a broad grading and circulation strategy that makes the entire site universally accessible. The newly planted woodland is shown above in winter.

architect: Craig Buttner

YUMA COURTHOUSE PLAZA
YUMA, AZ
2011

As the landscape architecture consultant on an invited GSA Design Excellence competition for a new courthouse, GV designed a public plaza that echoes the atmosphere of the surrounding desert and consumes only a third of the water required to maintain a lawn. Seating elements act as security barriers, together with a system of swales, runnels and microbasins that carry rainwater directly to the plants.

American Institute of Architects, Western Mountain Region, Citation Award

architect: Westlake Reed Leskosky (Jonathan Kurtz)

DESIGN BIENNIAL BOSTON
BOSTON, MA
2013

GV participated in the 2012 Design Biennial Boston — chosen by the jury as one of four practices among the “most significant design leaders among Greater Boston’s early-career, independent professional talent.” Our accompanying installation acts as a puzzle — a geometric satisfiability problem. Twelve stones were cut from a single piece of granite; nine were arranged in the gallery. The missing stones were disguised as stone dust on the floor or as triptych reflections in an interior glass curtain wall.

Animation
archive: Design Biennial Boston
curator: Over,Under
stone quarrying and milling: Fletcher Granite