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BERT AND JUDY’S GARDEN
OBERLIN COLLEGE CONSERVATORY
OBERLIN, OH
2010

A component of GV’s landscape for the Conservatory, the two-thousand square foot garden terrace sits atop the third floor of the school’s new Kohl Building. GV designed the roof deck and seating stage as a venue for events and as a flexible, everyday space. Grass textures persist into winter and a wash of bulbs arrives in March before giving way to June’s intense bloom.

Boston Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award

architect: Westlake Reed Leskosky (Jonathan Kurtz)
photograph: Nic Lehoux

PARK ON PEARL sTREET
SOMERVILLE, MA
2016

GV designed a new public park in East Somerville to mediate grades between the site’s corners. The Park’s paths and terraces string together these two fully accessibility entries across a matrix of perennials.

CHUCKIE HARRIS PARK
SOMERVILLE, MA
2014

By angling the fence, ten-degrees, at the Park’s main entry and café seating area, GV created space for a table and four chairs directly on the sidewalk. Passersby, dog walkers, and park visitors wanting some separation from kids, gravitate to this space. Roberto De Oliveira Castro and Ryan Pinkham of Over,Under designed custom furniture to fit a variety of spaces throughout the park.

Boston Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award

furniture design: Over,Under

CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER
CLEVELAND, OH
2011

GV developed a design for the 3-acre site of the Cleveland Sight Center. The Sight Center provides preventative, educational, and rehabilitative services for the blind or visually impaired. To compose a landscape of scents and textures and to describe it to members of the Sight Center steering committee, GV bottled the material palette in custom braille labeled jars.

architect: Westlake Reed Leskosky (Jonathan Kurtz)

TZU CHI BOSTON CENTER
NEWTON, MA
2012

As an initial, low-cost phase of GV’s landscape master plan, in April 2011, we guided a large scale volunteer tree planting. Volunteers planted 187 trees, including oaks, maples, hackberries, tulip trees and serviceberry trees, injecting the site with biological life and framing spaces for several landscape installations that are planned for the future.

architect: Craig Buttner