September 2025 Focus Section: Landscape

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Outdoor Spaces Through regular online stories and our Outdoor Spaces newsletter and virtual events, AN covers the latest projects, topics, and products in landscape architecture.

In this section, read about MVVA’s transformative Biidaasige Park in Toronto that redirects the Don River, among other timely case studies about urban forestry and Midwestern landscape architecture practices. Check out recommended products, gathered for your awareness and inspiration. At the end of the section, don’t miss our indepth resource directory, with recommended companies assembled from our coverage, events, and awards.

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To the River!

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates takes on Toronto’s multidecade, multidisciplinary effort to restore the Don River’s mouth and improve climate resilience.

“The second that construction fences went down, people were swarming in,” said Emily Mueller De Celis, partner at the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA). And that’s how it felt when the bus dropped me and other park-goers off east of the newly naturalized mouth of the Don River in Toronto. For many, the project to restore the Don River is synonymous with the Task Force to Bring Back the Don—a citizen advocacy group whose 1991 report outlined the aspirations for what would become a monumental, once-in-a-generation climate resiliency undertaking on the Canadian city’s shore.

The opening of Biidaasige Park on July 18 marked the first encounter Torontonians had with the Port Lands Flood Protection (PLFP)

project—the decades-long effort to renaturalize the mouth of the Don River, deliver flood protection, and provide spaces for living and recreation, at an overall cost of about $1 billion USD. But for those arriving later in the afternoon, as I did, one could be forgiven for thinking that it had long been part of our city. I entered the park through its northern edge, just south of Commissioners Street, to find that people were making it their own: Kids were climbing the already famous Snowy Owl Theatre and sliding down zip lines; others were busy in the many designated fishing areas; and a small crowd gathered by a paddleboat launch location.

Along with the cohort that had exited the bus, I joined dozens of others on foot and bicycle bound for the Commissioners Street

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Bridge—the main eastern connecting point between the mainland and the new island (Ookwemin Minising) formed by the extended river valley. At the foot of the bridge, people slowed and looked: Here was their city as they’d never seen it before, set behind a freely flowing Don. The river had once been more like this— before the city’s port and industry grew and its path to Lake Ontario became increasingly constricted. “The river came down the valley to a hard, 90-degree turn—and water does not want to flow that way,” explained Mueller De Celis. “It became such a flood-prone area.”

Ahead of the Storm Th e 9 8- a c re O o k we m i n M i n i s i n g i s l a n d , meaning “place of the black cherry trees” in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwemowin, is at the heart of the PLFP project. Biidaasige Park, meaning “sunlight shining toward us” in Anishinaabemowin, occupies 49 acres within it and integrates Indigenous placekeeping through native plantings, interpretive signage (NVision Insight Group), Indigenous trail tree markers (Two Row Architect), teaching signifiers (Solomon King and Brook McIlroy), and a shade structure (Tawaw Architecture Collective), among other spaces and installations to be

completed this year. In addition to the newly inaugurated park, the island will be home to the under-construction Promontory Park and a mixeduse development with 9,000 new homes.

MVVA, which joined the project after winning the 2007 Waterfront Toronto competition, has led its design and execution with a mandate to deliver flood protection, naturalization, and placemaking. “The beauty of the project is that so many hands have contributed to making it the way that it is today,” said Laura Solano, partner at MVVA. The large-scale, multidisciplinary effort has brought together fields ranging from marine and coastal engineering (GEI Consultants) to heritage conservation (ERA Architects). “[The project] is first and foremost flood protection infrastructure,” said Jennifer Bonnell, historian and author of Reclaiming the Don. “Over the course of its development, I was lucky enough to be able to tour the site, and you really got a sense of what a constructed landscape this is—how they built the bed of a new river channel and constructed it in ways that would direct floodwater in the event of a large century flood.”

The scale and complexity of the undertaking is especially apparent on foot. Moving through the vast under-construction stretches along Cherry Street and Commissioners Street—and

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Sebastián López Cardozo is an architectural designer and writer based in Toronto. He is a founding editor of Architecture Writing Workshop and a coeditor of Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico (Park Books, 2022).

Opposite page: Biidaasige Park

LIGHTING DESIGN: Domingo Gonzalez Associates

98-acre Ookwemin Minising island

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WETLAND AND MEADOW CONSULTANT: Dougan Ecology

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WAYFINDING AND SIGNAGE: Entro Communications

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HERITAGE CONSERVATION ARCHITECT: ERA Architects OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE: ETM Associates

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many recreational amenities the

SOIL SCIENTIST: Olsson

PLAY CODE CONSULTANT: Reliable Reporting

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park’s biophilic qualities.

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PLAY STRUCTURES: MONSTRUM, WholeTrees Strutures, Richter

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BENCHES: Landscape Forms, Streetlife

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From the beginning, the PLFP project embraced a deeply public, participatory process. “An important part of the design process—to make sure that we were making a park for everyone in Toronto—was to work with the community,” said Mueller De Celis. “We had open houses, pop-up consultations at different events...and

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we closely collaborated with an Indigenous design adviser [MinoKamik Collective] to identify plant species that have cultural significance for the regional Indigenous communities.”

Besides human visitors, nonhuman species have found their place too: Bees and butterflies are busy pollinating, and the occasional blue jay and northern cardinal can be spotted. The data shows this as well: The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Bonnell told me, is already monitoring aquatic species and seeing what they were hoping to see in terms of numbers and diversity.

From its inception, Bonnell said, one of the main objectives of the Task Force to Bring Back the Don was to encourage people to come to the river, and to get them to love this space so that they would then be motivated to protect it.

“You need the access to build the public will and the public connection with the space in order to have generations of people who care for it and want to protect it,” said Bonnell. “I think a similar idea went into this project.”

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the intermingled remnants of port and industry— one feels small. All manner of earthmoving equipment can be heard and seen, sometimes perched atop mountains of dirt. A bike trip some weeks later took me farther than my legs alone could, to the southern and eastern edges of Ookwemin Minising. Here, planting is ongoing, and I was greeted by a surreal and hopeful sight: With the big city skyline as a backdrop—engulfed in the ever-present wildfire smoke that blows from the prairies—smiling faces under big sun hats looked and waved before returning to their work on the plants.

“Planting and then caring for the native plants on that scale is a massive achievement,” said Bonnell. “They employed tons and tons of human labor to weed all of those plants and to make sure that they had a fighting chance against invasive species.”

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PORT LANDS FLOOD PROTECTION & ENABLING INFRASTRUCTURE - IFC (Full Vision) Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc, Landscape Architects

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Designed to be durable, stackable, and timeless, this dining chair features all-weather rattan and a double-sided cane pattern that make it a highly functional and timeless option.

Lagrasse is a collection that includes a dining chair, a lounge chair, and a two-seater sofa, all of which are formed by a simple powder-coated aluminum frame, perfect for small outdoor areas.

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Rippled stainless steel forms a lounge chair, designed by Lise Vester, whose sculptural curves are both stylish and comfortable.

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Designed by Francesco Maccapani Missoni, this outdoor collection brings to life Missoni’s passion for color and weaving, turning chairs and loungers into collages of multihued rope.

Reef, designed by Emmanuel Gallina, is a collection of concrete coffee tables whose softened contours are inspired by the ways the sea shapes rocks.

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Tree Equity Reed Hilderbrand’s Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan puts time-tested climate science into practice.

In 2019, Reed Hildberbrand released an urban forest master plan for Cambridge, Massachusetts. Four years later, the Biden administration allocated $1.5 billion to Urban and Community Forestry Grants as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Urban forests have massive benefits—they help combat heat-island effect and aid stormwater capture and runoff, to name just a couple. In New York City, trees remove 1,100 tons of air pollution each year. But despite the social, ecological, and financial merits of urban forests, tree coverage in the U.S. is shrinking. The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, lost on average 16 acres of urban tree canopy coverage per year between 2009 and 2018, according to a 2019 report. This was largely because of new building construction, increased paving, landscape renewal projects, and lack of adequate tree protection.

But Cambridge is not alone. Nationwide, about 175,000 acres were lost annually from 2009 to 2014, or about 1 percent of the country’s urban canopy over five years, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Now, architecture firms and government offices are working to reverse this trend. “For public health in the 21st century, we have to have cooling, and we have to

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have air quality, and that’s what trees do,” said Eric Kramer, principal at the Cambridge-based landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand.

K ra m e r i s p a r t o f a t e a m t h a t l e a d s t h e Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan, a project that aims to cultivate a healthy urban forest across the city.

Reed Hilderbrand’s urban forest master plan is part of a larger effort in Cambridge to restore ecological balance in the city of 121,000 residents. Similar projects there include Stoss Landscape Urbanism’s Triangle Park, a recently completed green space in Kendall Square.

Shade is Social Justice, a program funded by an Accelerating Climate Resilience grant from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, supports the construction of shading devices all throughout Cambridge, some designed by architects Gabriel Cira and Matthew Okazaki. SHADE, a local Cambridge nonprofit led by Jeff Goldenson, enables local high schoolers to design and build shading devices in their communities.

Expanding Canopy Coverage Similar urban forest plans have in recent years come out of cities across the U.S: In 2023, Philadelphia released the Philly Tree Plan, a road map by Hinge Collective to grow its urban canopy over the next decade. Urban forest plans are also underway in Boston, New York City, Austin, and San Francisco. Like those other programs, Reed Hilderbrand’s Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan is not just about planting more trees—it also prioritizes retaining those that already exist. Seeds planted today won’t grow large canopies for many years, so limiting tree removal and providing solutions for the “in-between” period necessary for newly planted trees to grow tall is essential for a sustainable and healthy urban forest to take hold.

“You have to act at all scales,” said Kramer, who also teaches in the landscape programs at Harvard GSD and ETH Zurich, where he explores the future of urban forestry with students. “You have to think about the individual condition. The tree itself is living, and you have to care for that tree. It takes human intervention in most urban environments to care for a tree.

But that tree is not isolated. It’s growing in a community, and that community is both ecological, cultural, and social.” Kramer and his team rely heavily on data to track progress and establish target interventions. Largely due to 20th century redlining, low-income, minority communities like in the nearby Boston neighborhood of Roxbury have less canopy coverage compared with wealthier areas. Thus, Reed Hilderbrand’s plan prioritizes areas of Cambridge with populations at greater risk of extreme heat.

Paradigm Shift In 2023, the Biden administration allocated $1.5 billion to Urban and Community Forestry Grants as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. That same year, California received over $100 million in such grant funding, the most of any state.

Today, among local officials, there is “emphasis on thinking about equitable distribution, mitigating heat, and we’re really working on ways that we can target communities in need,” said Dr. Max Robert Louis Piana, researcher, ecologist, and lecturer at Harvard GSD. A crucial element to this work is developing deeper civic interest and engagement. Trees don’t just impact one person—even a fruit tree in someone’s front yard can provide shade for passersby. So it’s in everyone’s best interest to care for urban forests, Kramer said. That’s why community engagement is a core component of the Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan.

“We need to have this connection to natural areas if we’re to nurture a greater global stewardship to address climate change,” Dr. Piana said. “Otherwise, it becomes distant and removed. It’s hard to wrap your head around the challenges that we face in terms of the climate crisis without experiencing biodiversity in natural areas.”

Kramer said he envisions future cities that, from ten thousand feet, will look primarily green with buildings dotting the landscape, rather than what cities are today: seas of gray with speckles of green. “I don’t think that’s impossible,” Kramer added. “Certainly, in cities we have bigger buildings and there’s going to be breaks in the forest for those buildings, but we have the capacity, both through techniques of planting and, if the investment is right, through the capacity of our city agencies and private actors to create continuous canopy in the rest of the open space.

That’s what the city should look like.”

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Eric Newstrom is a journalist in New York City. He writes primarily about climate change and sustainability.

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Public & Contract Furniture

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The following turn parks and streetscapes into spaces for community-making through conscientious and considered design. KP

Montara | Tournesol tournesol.com Featuring scalable benches, planters, and water features, the Montara Collection interprets organic forms into rounded hardwood and concrete pieces for lounging and gathering.

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As now seen in New York’s Meatpacking District, Parklets 2.0 are designed to turn streets into third spaces, featuring urban flooring that activates unused parking spots and integrates a range of seating options.

These scaled-down pieces of furniture, including Maglin classics like the 400 Series Bench, offer safe, fun furnishings for young ones to ensure inclusive outdoor spaces.

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Don’t Call It the Breadbasket

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How are Midwest landscape architecture practices transforming sites of extraction into spaces of ecological and social cohesion?

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Strips of earth running north–south where long ago glaciers carved their paths in limestone cliffs; flatland prairies that have been burned for regrowth; vast stretches of cultivated farmland; swamps built into cities; and more: These are the landscapes that make up the American Midwest, a place that has been shaped by human agents and natural factors for millennia. Much of this contouring has colored this area as the nation’s “breadbasket,” ripe for picking, whether it be for food or fuel.

For landscape architects working in this region, this shaping is both physical and metaphorical, and it continually informs their practices, whether they’re working in Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, or the eastern edges of the American Rust Belt. But instead of replicating extractive practices, they’re tapping into working-class histories and regenerative strategies that lay a path to a future where climate, labor, and natural resources become central to everyday life.

Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh When Chris Merritt and Nina Chase opened their landscape architecture firm, Merritt Chase, eight years ago, the two founders, who met while working in Sasaki’s Boston office, wanted to focus specifically on the Midwest. They located their two headquarters in Indianapolis and Pittsburgh to “redefine what contemporary middle American landscape architecture is and could be,” Chase told AN. With many commissions in Rust Belt areas, their projects, Merritt said, tell “comeback” stories. “We’re often participating in projects in rebounding downtowns, redeveloping urban districts from an economic lens, and thinking about trying to retain or recruit talent back to cities.”

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From an ecological viewpoint, however, they recognize that many residents have familial or ancestral connections to the land itself; they’re also prompting residents to “come back” to that history. Many Midwesterners, he says, “grew up with a connection to a creek or river or forest or farm or field, and [we’re] capturing that from a material standpoint, so that local identity is authentically represented in these places that, otherwise, are cast under a broad stroke of the flyover state.”

Many of Merritt Chase’s commissions are located in swing states like Ohio. In Cleveland, they’re doing two projects: 1 Canal Basin Park, which will bring visitors back to the city’s industrial riverfront, where a canal and railroad supported the area’s economic history; and The Midline, an existing railway that will include a greenway and industrial development. In these projects Merritt Chase tries to instill pride in place.

This could mean celebrating an area’s industrial or working-class history and generating the political will to make people-and-ecologycentric projects happen.

Wong said. “A lot of times, [these residents] are still working seven days a week, so being outdoors is a luxury.”

S i te’s 2 Ping Tom Memorial Park i s emblematic of the office’s ethos. Completed in 2013 and located in Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood, which lacked green space for decades, the park, designed by site, delivered a space that asserts Chinatown was, is, and will continue to be inhabited by Chinese families. Chicago’s Chinatown is one of the few Chinatowns in the U.S. whose Chinese population is still growing. The park celebrates the area’s industrial past by inviting residents back to the once-polluted Chicago River and frames views of former railways, cantilevered bridges, and factories.

“I think that had we designed that park not along the Chicago River, it would not be as popular as it is now,” Wong explained. “I think that those qualities of the river and the railroads make that park what it is. It’s not necessarily the park space itself, but the things that are around it.”

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Ernest Wong and his firm, site design group, have spent 35 years working across priorities that change with each mayoral administration in the Windy City. Though civic leaders don’t need much convincing about the benefits of things like climate resilience or outdoor space, site has built a reputation on delivering these types of landscape projects to those who most need them by focusing its attention on working-class people and, importantly, their futures.

“Historically, the city has been a very workingclass city and a working-class immigrant city,”

Minneapolis-based 3 Coen+Partners (CP) principal McKenzie Wilhelm speaks of Midwestern landscape practices as “regenerative,” meaning not only do they reaffirm the region’s working-class history and ethos but they are also spearheading the movement to change our relationship to the land itself. This attention might be expressed through caring for soil health or water quality, she said, especially as climate change’s effects ripple across the region. But it also means discovering what allows people to thrive, even in difficult climate conditions.

The Midwest, notes CP director Laura Kamin-Lyndgaard, is primed for this type of thinking. “The words that come to mind are incredibly hardworking, the sense of grit and perseverance, of not only weathering the harsh climates but embracing them,” she stated.

With this attitude in mind, practitioners are now seeing land as part of maintaining human livelihoods through physical and cultural resource stewardship.

For Wilhelm, this might mean acknowledging that the Midwest nickname “America’s breadbasket” no longer fits. What feels more appropriate today is “an understanding of what a more reciprocal version of land stewardship looks like,” she said. “Land isn’t necessarily seen as just an asset that’s going to make you money, but also something that requires care and understanding at the systems level.”

The Forest and the Trees Part of the work is acknowledging that the region’s economy has relinquished its share of the cash-crop/export economy that powered its original growth. Now, cultural and ecological assets are greater sources of growth and economic revitalization. While landscape architects certainly play a role in that effort, the region’s potential for positive reinvention must come with other political and architectural investments in its housing and sustainable sectors.

Across the plains, forests, and urban environs, landscape architects, trained to analyze, design, and maintain natural environments, stand ready to lend a helping hand.

Anjulie Rao is a journalist and critic covering the built environment.

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Outdoor Lighting

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Whether for parks, hotels, streets, or other outdoor sites, these sleek and precise lighting solutions cater to various typologies. KP

Fanalet | Bover bover.es/us Bover reinterprets the classic lantern with clean, linear lines and a more precise control of light, enabling a collection of pendants, wall lamps, and streetlamps.

WedgeCove | Inter-lux inter-lux.com

Lodes OUTDOORS | Lodes lodes.com/en

This cove system can be mounted on a continuous wall, ceiling, or mullion in an “uplight/downlight” or wash position for versatile and precise control of outdoor illumination.

Lodes’s entry into outdoor lighting includes a collection of sleek luminaires, such as the slim, mushroom-shaped bollard, KINNO, and the projector inspired by photography, FOCUS.

Valenza | Cyclone Lighting cyclonelighting.com Seen at an angle, the slender lines of the Valenza luminaire seem to disappear, but viewed head-on, the light’s distinct V shape becomes apparent, a symbol of its modern illumination.

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This design by Sebastian Herkner merges a rounded, fluted glass and a regal metal frame for an elegant lighting collection, available as a sconce, floor lamp, or bollard.

Named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hennepin’s inaugural outdoor lighting uses hand-pressed glass to create a textured sconce with a quiet elegance.

FLANEUR: MADE FOR AMERICA. As public space continues to shed its rigidity and embrace the comfort of domestic life, Flaneur steps confidently into view. Designed by mmcité as a thoughtful response to this cultural shift, Flaneur is a collection of movable chairs, stools, and tables that brings interior calm to exterior settings. It is street furniture that embraces its urban origin, yet gently dissolves the line between public and private, communal and personal.

First glance At first glance, the Flaneur line appears simple and understated.

Beneath that quiet elegance lies remarkable strength. A lightweight galvanized steel structure, finished with a durable powder coating, supports either warm wooden slats or finely detailed steel rounds.

Each element is crafted for ergonomic comfort, resilience, and mobility. It is stackable, portable, and easily repositioned within parks, plazas, cafés, or cultural venues.

America first Flaneur was born with America in mind. In cities like New York, trust is placed in the hands of the public. Bryant Park, for instance, has 4,000 movable chairs and 1,000 movable tables. Not fixed in place, but loose and liberated. Here, the arrangement of furniture becomes

a kind of urban dance. Strangers shift a table toward the sun.

Friends gather in circles under trees. Solitary thinkers angle their chairs just so. The space is never static, always alive. This is more than convenience. This is democracy made visible. As the American Planning Association notes, movable furniture empowers people to shape their surroundings. And remarkably, only a few pieces go missing each year. In return, the park gains something priceless: spontaneity, interaction, and a sense of shared ownership.

In early 2025, mmcité introduced Flaneur in the United States, reflecting the values of flexibility, empowerment, and inclusivity.

It is more than a product line; it is a philosophy of urban ease.

As cities become softer, more welcoming, and more expressive, Flaneur offers an architectural tool that shapes public space not through permanence, but through possibility. Flaneur is made for America.

Made in America – soon As Flaneur continues to shape more human-centered public spaces across the country, we’re taking the next step in its journey. We are bringing production closer to home. In response to growing demand and a deepening commitment to the communities we serve, we are actively working toward manufacturing Flaneur in the United States.

This evolution reinforces our belief that great design should move with ease and integrity across spaces, across cities, and now, across the sea into American production. Soon, Flaneur won’t just be made for America, it will be Made in America.

FLANEUR, SOON MADE IN AMERICA.

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Reprogramming the Land

September 2025

dwg. creates a biodiverse landscape for an office building designed by Gensler on a former brownfield site in East Austin.

In any city, building atop a floodplain is a challenge. In Austin, where a five-hundred-year rainfall is now considered a one-hundred-year rainfall, the project becomes almost unimaginably difficult. On a property situated on a now-remediated brownfield site with heavy, alluvial clay soils, a developer seeking to build a sprawling office campus dared to take on an even more complex task. Gensler and local landscape architecture firm dwg. worked together to transform a 30-acre site dubbed Springdale Green at 1011 Springdale Road in East Austin for the Jay Paul Company. In addition to two office buildings and a parking garage, the campus boasts a verdant landscape programmed for recreation and wellness, as well as flood mitigation.

Gensler sited the two office buildings to the north, placing them outside of the FEMA floodplain, which left room on the rest of the site for dwg. to design a regenerative hydrology system, an elevated boardwalk, and acres of land planted with native species.

“From a landscape perspective, it was a 20-acre challenge of epic proportion,” Daniel Woodroffe, president and founder of dwg., told AN. He added that his job entailed thinking about how to “leverage the land to tell a meaningful story, not just of cleaning up and removing invasive species, but about the modern trends in workplace and how people want to work [and have] access to the outdoors and natural light.”

An elevated 0.62-mile wooden boardwalk, circuitously routed through the campus, became a linchpin for delivering this vision.

“The boardwalk is a very surgical, lighttouch element but at the same time immersive, because it goes from 18 inches above the meadows all the way up into the canopy of the trees and then back down again,” Woodroffe described.

The walkway begins at the campus amphitheater and event lawn, located outside of the ground-floor gym facilities. Follow its meandering path, and one comes across programming also designed for office work and leisure. Among these activations are hammocks, a pavilion, and a bird blind. The architects and designers imagined the pavilion as if it had always been there, envisioning that nature had grown around it, and not the other way around. The small openair building is equipped with modern amenities like internet access and restrooms. Workers can convene under the shade of its wood canopy for meetings, to host a happy hour, take a phone call, or take in nature.

“The pavilion is an abstract of the elements of the building: the concrete corners, the wood soffits, the use of the D’Hanis terra-cotta block to create a temple in the woods,” Woodroffe said.

Just up the path, the bird blind posits a similar environment. A curved canopy structure was lined with wood slats facing the pathway and a screen of stainless-steel black mesh on its other side. Furnishings inside the open-air volume face out toward woodlands. This location was chosen for a number of reasons: It’s the highest point of boardwalk; it had the largest grove of elm trees and the largest concentration of red cardinal birds.

“We call it the bird blind because it is up in the canopy of the trees,” Woodroffe added. “It is

almost imperceptible that you’re seeing through that mesh out into the canopy of the trees.”

Deciding what trees to leave and what vegetation to plant was informed by the area’s geology and Austin’s heritage tree ordinance. Two large live oaks—one of which is three hundred years old—were transplanted, and more than four thousand new trees were added to the site.

The site’s ecology combines Blackland Prairie— prominent in the area but shrinking from urban sprawl—with that of riparian wetlands. Woodroffe and dwg. worked with an ecologist and a soil scientist to select plants for the property.

Shielded from sight but essential to the narrative of Springdale Green’s transformation is water. A 650,000-gallon cistern stores rainwater and HVAC condensate for 100 percent of the site’s irrigation needs. The water is released slowly over time as needed. As a result, the campus’s new bio-retention basins and rain gardens are nearly superfluous. Prior to this project, the neighborhood had a serious flooding issue. An interbasin transfer, negotiated with the neighbors, now means water from the north of the site gets directed through a swale and into the campus’s floodplain meadows for storage.

At Springdale Green, dwg.’s “light-touch” approach has managed to change the trajectory for a maligned site, restoring its ecology amid increasing flood risk and urban expansion. KK

BRIAN KIT TS

DESIGN ARCHITECT: Gensler

ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Gensler LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: dwg.

INTERIOR DESIGN: Gensler

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING: IMEG ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: EEA

CIVIL ENGINEERING: Kimley-Horn LIGHTING DESIGN: Tillotson

BRIAN KIT TS

SIGNAGE/WAYFINDING: Gensler

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Level 10 Construction LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR: Clean Scapes

LANDSCAPE CARPENTRY: Duffin Architectural CLIENT REPRESENTATIVE: Jay Paul Company LANDSCAPE PRODUCTS: Landscape Forms,

Blu Dot, LOLL, Kettal, Cuero, Vestre, Atelier Vierkant WOOD DECKING AND CUSTOM FURNITURE: Kebony CONCRETE UNIT PAVERS: Keystone Hardscapes, Concrete Collaborative

Top: More than 4,000 new trees were added to the site, where landscaping is both for recreation and flood mitigation. A 650,000-gallon cistern stores rainwater and HVAC condensate and then releases stored rainwater gradually.

Middle: Office workers have access to furnished terraces with restorative views into the landscape.

Bottom: The elevated boardwalk is decked in Kebony and runs 0.62 miles through the campus.

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Outdoor Textiles

September 2025

Tactility, durability, functionality, and, of course, style inform the following new textile selections available for outdoor use. KP

ANNE DEPPE

Alfresco | James Dunlop Textiles jamesdunloptextiles.com

Racetrack | Designtex designtex.com

Kravet × BROWN JORDAN | Kravet kravet.com

Made from solution-dyed olefin and recycled yarns, with FibreGuard stain resistance, this line of earth tones and neutrals is especially suited for high-traffic environments and sun exposure.

Defined by stripes, checkered patterns, and contrast, the new offering from Designtex evokes the quintessential beach towel with bold panache.

BROWN JORDAN has partnered with Kravet on a line of outdoor textiles that reinterpret classic patterns with rich, sophisticated twists.

ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE RESPECTIVE MANUFACTURERS E XCEPT WHERE NOTED

Belize and Riviera | HON x Mayer Fabrics mayerfabrics.com

Cognition | Luum Textiles luumtextiles.com

Savannah Collection | Revolution revolutionfabrics.com

HON collaborated with Mayer Fabrics in a collection that includes two woven textiles, Belize and Riviera, offering texture and depth to classic styles.

Cognition warms the space with soft hues and earthy textures that lend themselves to easy cleanability, including with bleach.

Spanning 15 patterns and 40 SKUs, this versatile collection riffs on signature designs with attention to versatility, softness, and contemporary details.

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Pavers

September 2025

From luxury settings to modern rooftops and high-traffic areas, these outdoor surfaces offer strong visual identities as well as functionality. KP

Grey Smoke Flamed | ABC Stone abcworldwidestone.com

Eco Urbana | Belgard belgard.com

Wood Pavers | ORCA orcaliving.com

This granite with a monochromatic gray color palette is particularly suited for frosty and thaw-prone regions with a recommended thickness minimum of 2.5 centimeters.

This three-piece modular permeable system offers the look and feel of vintage cut stone while improving stormwater runoff.

Crafted from black locust, these permeable pavers are milled to reveal the rings and story of each tree while providing the feel of unfinished wood for a tactile experience underfoot.

SkyView Roof Deck System | Unilock unilock.com Designed to meet the demands of modern rooftop construction, this system features solutions to support high-wind uplift applications, a wide range of surfacing options, and intuitive installation.

ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE RESPECTIVE MANUFACTURERS E XCEPT WHERE NOTED

Roof Ballast Pavers | Hanover Architectural Products hanoverpavers.com

Haddonstone | Daltile daltile.com

Ocean Reef | TileBar tilebar.com

Produced with 100-percent recycled aggregate, these natural diamond pavers come in a range of sizes and provide durable walkways that protect the roof system.

Translating the look of English Portland limestone to a porcelain format, the Haddonstone collection offers spa-like and biophilic designs for both residential and commercial settings.

Glittering with fragments of fossils and seashells, this limestone paver mesmerizes with its shimmering texture and swirling pattern.

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Landscape Resources

September 2025

This listing combines outdoor companies and products featured in our coverage, case studies, product highlights, and awards. By Arlo Freedman

Consultants Arup

arup.com

This global consultancy powerhouse provides advisory services for firms and organizations whose business is the built environment, including landscape architecture.

Atelier Ten

atelierten.com

Atelier Ten is a global sustainability-minded environmental design consultant with lighting design and engineering capabilities, offering services including carbon strategy and energy analysis.

Biohabitats

biohabitats.com

Biohabitats is a consultant specializing in projects centered in ecological restoration, conservation, and climate resilience, with experience across the United States.

Brightworks Sustainability brightworks.net

Brightworks is a consultancy firm guiding projects toward environmental sustainability for residential, commercial, and governmental sectors.

Brookwater

brookwater.com

Brookwater, specializing in irrigation consulting and design, assists with water management for parks, transportation, and residential projects for a wide range of clients.

Climate Positive Design

climatepositivedesign.org

Climate Positive Design is a consultant offering guidance in greenhouse gas reduction for the exterior built environment and supporting biodiversity in landscaping.

DataBased+

databasedplus.com

DataBased+ is an innovative building systems design firm offering sustainable planning services and climate analysis.

Fluidity Design Consultants fluidity-design.com

Fluidity features a multidisciplinary team of architects, designers, engineers, and technologists devoted to fountain and water design for many types of projects.

Footprint Consulting

footprintconsulting.green/ en

Footprint Consulting provides consulting services to quantify and reduce greenhouse gas emissions for climate-conscious architectural projects.

GEI Consultants

Urban Canopy Works

Novara

B-K Lighting

Qu Lighting

GEI provides geotechnical, environmental, and civil design consulting for clients across the United States and Ontario.

Urban Canopy Works is a firm dedicated to the advancement of the tree canopy in the urban environment, providing forestry consultant services.

Novara is an outdoor kitchen supply company with bespoke and customization capabilities.

B-K Lighting provides high-quality sustainable lighting fixtures and power supplies for the outdoors.

Qu Lighting is an Italian outdoor bespoke lighting designer with an array of sleek exterior lighting products.

geiconsultants.com

Irrigation Consulting

irrigationconsulting.com

Irrigation Consulting provides sustainable irrigation design counseling for landscape and outdoor recreational projects, with offices in New Hampshire and North Carolina.

Phyto Studio

phytostudio.com

Phyto Studio is a nature-based design studio with landscape architecture and ecological horticulture consulting services.

Pine & Swallow Environmental

pineandswallow.com

Pine & Swallow Environmental provides horticultural soil consulting to public and private clients for the construction of landscape development projects.

Plántica

plantica.mx

Plántica specializes in consultancy for landscape architectural projects, vertical gardens, and green roofs.

Regenerative Environmental Design redbeyondgreen.com

RED partners with project teams to protect healthy ecosystems a n d re s to re d e g ra d e d l a n d scapes, providing robust regenerative solutions.

RWDI

rwdi.com

RWDI is a global consultancy with climate and environmental engineering services for landscaping projects.

Stanley Consultants

stanleyconsultants.com

urbancanopyworks.com

Vectorworks

vectorworks.net

This design software company provides architects with intuitive, powerful tools to create whatever designs they can imagine.

Outdoor Kitchens & Baths Arhaus

arhaus.com

Arhaus is a sustainably sourced furniture and decor company with outdoor kitchen and furniture lines.

Belgard

belgard.com

Belgard is a California-based outdoor products company with a large outdoor kitchen collection.

BlueStar

bluestarcooking.com

BlueStar is a 140-year-old Pennsylvania-based kitchen appliance company with design-forward products, including many in customizable colors.

Dacor

dacor.com

Dacor provides high-performing kitchen and refrigeration appliances for indoor and outdoor spaces.

Danver

danver.com

Danver is an outdoor stainlesssteel cabinet and kitchen manufacturer based in Connecticut.

Duravit USA

Stanley Consultants is a global consulting engineering firm rooted in sustainable and energyefficient solutions for diverse markets.

duravit.com

Stok

Fisher & Paykel

Stok is a consulting team with a range of services in decarbonization for the built environment, including energy engineering and sustainability consulting.

Fisher & Paykel is a luxury kitchen appliance company with a large product line of outdoor grills.

stok.com

Studio Ludo

studioludo.org

Studio Ludo is a nonprofit playground design consultant firm based in Philadelphia, with expertise in playground safety solutions and risk-benefit assessment.

Duravit makes high-quality bathroom ceramics and furniture, working with well-known designers and expert manufacturers.

fisherpaykel.com

Neolith

neolith.com

Neolith is a leading sintered stone surface manufacturer featuring kitchen and bathroom products suited for the outdoors.

novara.es

Rbrohant

bklighting.com

Cerno

rbrohant.com

cernogroup.com

Rbrohant is a bathroom product manufacturer designing premium outdoor baths and showers.

Cerno designs decorative exterior architectural lighting systems with a focus on sustainability.

Room & Board

Cyclone Lighting

The mo dern and c ontemp o rary furniture retailer features a diverse range of outdoor kitchen furniture.

Cyclone designs, develops, and manufactures high-performance, durable outdoor luminaires and accessories.

Talenti Outdoor Living

Diabla

Talenti is a recognized Italian outdoor furniture company designing kitchens for commercial and residential projects.

Diabla is an avant-garde Spanish outdoor furniture company with a range of lamp products.

roomandboard.com

talentispa.com

TOTO

toto.com/en

TOTO creates spa-inspired outdoor bathroom appliances for hotels and resorts.

Watrline

watrline.com

Watrline is a designer and manufacturer of outdoor showers for residential and hospitality projects.

Outdoor Lighting

cyclonelighting.com

diablaoutdoor.com

ERCO

erco.com

ERCO is an international specialist in architectural lighting with LED technology.

Flos

flos.com

Flos is a European company designing luxury furnishing and lighting for interiors and exteriors.

Inter-lux

inter-lux.com

Inter-lux provides a curated collection of exterior lighting products and tools.

Acuity Brands

Landscape Forms

Acuity Brands provides a wide range of sustainable outdoor lighting solutions.

Landscape Forms crafts artful furniture and lighting fixtures for commercial exteriors.

Ambientec

Lebello

Ambientec is a Japanese lighting design brand specializing in portable, rechargeable, waterproof LED lamps.

Lebello is a designer and manufacturer of colorful outdoor furniture and lighting, primarily for restaurants, hospitality, and retail.

AMEICO

Luminii

AMEICO provides high-performing, environmentally sound exterior lighting fixtures.

Luminii manufactures highly modifiable, made-to-order linear LED luminaires for indoor and outdoor applications.

acuitybrands.com

ambientec.co.jp

ameico.com

Amerlux

amerlux.com

landscapeforms.com

lebello.com

luminii.com

Luminis

Amerlux manufactures lighting fixtures for the commercial sector with product lines for both indoors and outdoors.

luminis.com

Artemide

Modern Forms

Artemide is an illumination brand with products for architectural lightscapes in public and private outdoor spaces.

Modern Forms offers outdoor luminaires featuring lamp, flush mount, and step light collections.

artemide.com

Luminis creates functional and modern luminaires for diverse applications.

modernforms.com

qu-lighting.com

RBW

rbw.com

RBW is a New York–based independent design and manufacturing company utilizing sustainable energy in its exterior lighting product line.

Selux

selux.us

Selux designs timeless lighting fixtures for exterior settings, with modular design allowing for smart functions.

Stickbulb

stickbulb.com

Stickbulb manufactures architectural and custom outdoor luminaires and repurposes salvaged pin-oak from the NYC urban forest in its TREELINE collection.

Tala

talalighting.com

Tala is a London-based company that creates low- carbon and design-forward sustainable exterior light fixtures.

Targetti

targettiusa.com

Targetti specializes in elegant architectural lighting for interior and exterior environments.

Vibia

vibia.com

Vibia creates outdoor lighting products that utilize low-voltage LEDs for efficient energy consumption and well-being.

Outdoor Textiles Bernhardt

bernhardt.com

Bernhardt offers a large catalog of high-performance and high-design outdoor fabrics for residential outdoor living spaces.

Brentano

brentanofabrics.com

Brentano Design Studio creates sophisticated fabrics and wallcoverings for indoor and outdoor spaces, with stain-resistant and easy-clean finish options.

Carnegie

carnegiefabrics.com

Carnegie manufactures environmentally friendly textile, wallcovering, and acoustic solutions for outdoor applications.

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CF Stinson

Kvadrat

Stinson Studio provides commercial textile solutions, including a large collection of weatherproof textiles for outdoor environments.

S candinavian textile brand Kva d ra t o f fe r s q u a l i t y c o n temporary textiles and textilerelated, including products for the outdoors.

cfstinson.com

Chilewich

chilewich.com

Chilewich is a textile design company creating woven textiles, and boasts an everexpanding catalog of products for indoor and outdoor application.

kvadrat.dk/en

Link Outdoor

linkoutdoor.com

Link Outdoor designs fabrics, trim, and rugs resistant to fading and stains for lively indoor and outdoor spaces.

Designtex

Luum

Designtex manufactures applied materials for the built environment and textiles for exterior settings.

Luum is a textile designer and manufacturer offering products suitable for the outdoor built environment.

Gan

Momentum Textiles

designtex.com

gan-rugs.com

Gan is a Spanish textile company creating unique residential indoor and outdoor rugs, carpets, and accessories.

HBF Textiles

hbftextiles.com

HBF Textiles provides a large inventory of textile products, including water-repellent and weatherproof textiles in multiple finishes and a new line, Layered

by Mark Grattan.

Kravet

kravet.com

Kravet is a fabric, carpet, and wallcovering manufacturer offering durability to outdoor living spaces.

luumtextiles.com

momentumtextilesandwalls .com

Momentum Textiles provides performance-driven textiles in a wide variety of styles for commercial interior and exteriors.

Sunbrella

sunbrella.com

Sunbrella is a trusted designer and manufacturer of outdoor upholstery and shade fabrics, with bespoke capabilities.

Pavers & Decking

Florim

Keystone Hardscapes

Millboard

Florim is an Italian company offering porcelain stoneware surfaces for outdoor flooring and cladding.

abcworldwidestone.com

Keystone Hardscapes manufactures durable pavers and specialty permeable pavers that deliver water runoff reduction.

Gardenia Orchidea

Millboard is a composite deck and siding company with products made of oak, built to maintain enhanced durability and to ensure fire resistance.

ABC Stone

ABC Stone is an exterior stone company offering paving in a variety of designs and composite materials.

Alaplana Ceramica nuevaalaplana.es

Alaplana Ceramica possesses a large catalog of paving materials and finishes.

Artistic Tile

artistictile.com

Artistic Tile provides quality, sustainably sourced tile for exterior application in porcelain, natural stone, and terrazzo.

Bison Innovative Products bisonip.com

Bison Innovative Products manufactures pedestals, pavers, and site furnishings for commercial, governmental, and residential sectors, as well as modular deck systems.

Duradek

duradek.com

This 50-year-old company is a pioneer in the vinyl decking industry, providing sheet vinyl waterproofing solutions for all sorts of decks, and a wide network of distributors and applicators.

florim.com

gardenia.it/en

Gardenia Orchidea is a tile manufacturer with ceramic flooring products for outdoor purposes.

Glen-Gery

glengery.com

Glen-Gery is a manufacturer offering a large collection of porcelain and brick pavers for architectural landscaping projects.

Hanover Architectural Products hanoverpavers.com

Hanover Architectural Products presents a wide range of innovative pavers for diverse architectural outdoor spaces.

Invisible Structures

invisiblestructures.com

Invisible Structures provides glass and gravel porous paving solutions for sustainable landscaping.

Kebony

kebony.com

Kebony is a modified-wood brand with an innovative, patented technology that enhances traditional timber, allowing it to take on characteristics comparable to those of tropical hardwoods.

keystonehardscapes.com

La Nova Tile

lanovatile.com

La Nova Tile is a Texas-based slab and tile company delivering contemporary tiling solutions from Spain and Italy to the Houston architecture and design industry.

LiLi Tile

lilitile.com

LiLi Tile designs and manufactures colorful cement tiling for the North American landscaping and exterior architecture market.

Marble Systems

marblesystems.com

Marble Systems manufactures tiles and slabs for exterior settings in a range of materials, finishes, and designs.

Matter Surfaces

mattersurfaces.com

Matter Surfaces offers commercially rated, slip-resistant matting and flooring solutions engineered to withstand weather for high-traffic outdoor spaces.

millboard.com

Monocibec

monocibec.it/en

Monocibec is an Italian stoneware company providing quality ceramic flooring for outdoor settings.

Nicolock

nicolock.com

Nicolock is a manufacturer of retaining walls, pavers, and other concrete outdoor flooring products for residential projects.

ORCA

orcaliving.com

ORCA is a landscape design firm that also offers a large collection of specialty pavers, tiles, and outdoor accessories.

Pioneer Landscape Centers pioneerco.com

Pioneer Landscape Centers, now part of SiteOne Stone Center, is a landscape and hardscape supply company with an extensive product selection from top national brands.

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Landscape Resources continued

September 2025

Shildan

OMNI Ecosystems

Cre8Play

Amop

Miramondo

Barlow Tyrie

S h i l d a n p rov i d e s U V- a n d frost-resistant terra-cotta deck and pavers for commercial and educational facilities.

OMNI delivers complete soil ecosystems for green roofs and planters, and other landscaping services.

Cre8Play designs and fabricates creative playground apparatus and custom equipment for the parks and recreation industry.

Founded in 1973, the Amop Synergies Group develops precast concrete and stone composites for cladding and street furniture.

Miramondo designs unique contract furnishing lines in various styles and materials, with calculated CO2e values for ease in sustainability evaluation.

Barlow Tyrie produces practical and contemporary outdoor furniture crafted with British teakwood, steel, and aluminum materials.

Unilock

Peat & Son

Earthscape

BEGA

Unilock is an architectural hardscape product manufacturer o f fe r i n g p a v e r s , s l a b s , a n d roof decking products for the outdoors.

Peat & Son Nursery is located in Westhampton, New York, and carries a wide range of plants and hard goods for landscaping needs, with regional delivery capabilities.

Earthscape designs and builds custom playground sculptures and structures made of natural materials.

BEGA is a vertically integrated manufacturing company crafting modular furniture systems for civic spaces.

Goric

Dedon

Goric is a playground equipment company, crafting European play structures made of stainless steel, timber, and rubber for landscape designers and architects.

Dedon crafts contract furniture for diverse environmental settings, with specialties in beach and dining furniture.

shildan.com

commercial.unilock.com

Wausau

wausautile.com

Wausau Tile manufactures premier tile and architectural pavers available in a variety of textures and looks.

Plant Nurseries & Suppliers Bailey Nurseries

baileynurseries.com

Bailey Nurseries is a plant breeder and nursery assisting retailers, growers, and landscapers to create sustainable horticulture.

Cactus Store

cactusstore.com

Cactus store offers cacti, succulents, and desert plants, as well as a range of seeds including wildflowers, trees, shrubs, and grasses.

Chelsea Garden Center

chelseagardencenter.com

Chelsea Garden C enter is a Brooklyn-based gardening business and online shop offering a wide inventory of houseplants, nursery plants, containers, and supplies.

Ernst Conservation Seeds ernstseed.com

Ernst Conservation Seeds grows, processes, and sells hundreds of species of native seeds and live plant materials for ecological restoration and sustainable landscaping.

Intrinsic Perennial Gardens intrinsicperennialgardens .com

Intrinsic Perennial Gardens is a Midwest breeder of perennials and North American native plants.

Iseli Nursery

iselinursery.com

Iseli Nursery is a wholesale landscape plant grower, specializing in conifers, Japanese maples, and ornamental trees and shrubs.

Moss Greenhouses

mossgreenhouses.com

Moss Greenhouses is a fourthgeneration-run bedding plant producer and wholesale distributor located in Idaho.

omniecosystems.com

peatnson.com

Plants of the Wild

plantsofthewild.com

Plants of the Wild’s inventory includes native grasses, forbs, shrubs, and trees, deliverable to landscapers in the inland Pacific Northwest.

Proven Winners ColorChoice provenwinnerscolorchoice. com

Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs specializes in hydrangeas native to North America, which are distributed nationally.

Read Custom Soils

readcustomsoils.com

Read Custom Soils provides precision soil for a diverse range of landscaping projects in New England.

Soil Retention

soilretention.com

Soil Retention offers plantable concrete pavement systems and drivable grass for commercial and retail landscaping applications.

Walla Walla Nursery Co. wallawallanursery.com

Walla Walla Nursery is a Washington-based wholesale grower with a broad selection of plants shipping nationally to landscapers and retail garden centers.

Play & Recreation BCI Burke

bciburke.com

BCI Burke designs and manufactures commercial playgrounds, outdoor fitness and recreation equipment, and accompanying site amenities.

Berliner

berliner-playequipment .com/us

Berliner is a 160-year-old international creative playground equipment company, manufacturing play structures suitable for educational, urban, and landscape settings.

Columbia Cascade

columbia-cascade.com

Columbia Cascade is a playground equipment, fitness systems, and site furnishings manufacturer specializing in wooden play structures.

cre8play.com

earthscapeplay.com

goric.com

Greenfields Outdoor Fitness gfoutdoorfitness.com

grupoamop.com

bega-us.com

dedon.de

Durbanis

durbanis.com

Greenfields Outdoor Fitness is a provider of inclusive and durable outdoor exercise equipment serving a diverse range of communities.

Durbanis creates contempo rary street and outdoor furniture for public spaces, with products made of recycled and recyclable materials.

Kompan

Extremis

Kompan manufactures commercial playground equipment and outdoor fitness solutions, offering colorful playgrounds made of 95-percent recycled material.

Belgian-based furniture company Extremis designs a wide variety of sleek contract furniture.

kompan.com

Landscape Structures playlsi.com

Landscape Structures is a commercial play manufacturer with an extensive catalog of play equipment for residential, educational, and commercial clients.

Lappset

lappset.com

Lappset is a Finnish playground and outdoor fitness fabricator, with custom design and installation services.

MONSTRUM monstrum.dk

MONSTRUM is an international company crafting accessible custom-designed playgrounds with artistic and architectural focus.

PlayCore

playcore.com

PlayCore designs, manufactures, and builds turnkey play, recreation, and outdoor spaces with a wide selection of products, programs, and services.

Richter Spielgeräte

richter-spielgeraete.de/en/

Richter Spielgeräte designs and manufactures unique play spaces made of wood from sustainably managed forests.

Public & Contract Furniture

extremis.com

Forms+Surfaces

forms-surfaces.com

Forms+Surfaces manufactures site-specific furniture for public outdoor space crafted with a range of durable materials.

Green Furniture Concept greenfc.com

GFC creates sustainable furnishings for healthcare, airport, education, and exterior public settings.

Heller

hellerfurniture.com

Modern design company Heller crafts affordable chairs and benches suited for outdoor public areas.

Kornegay

kornegaydesign.com

Kornegay Design creates design-forward sculptural planters and furnishings for the public outdoors.

Landscape Forms

landscapeforms.com

Founded by landscape architect John Chimpan, Sr. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Landscape Forms has evolved to manufacture products with an emphasis on design, culture, and craft, including outdoor furniture and accessories.

Maglin

maglin.com

Maglin Site Furniture is a public and contract furniture company offering furnishings with customizable, UV-resistant finishes.

3form

MDT-Tex

3form is a material design studio that provides resin panels that are durable, impact-resistant, and suitable for outdoor use.

MDT-Tex creates individual, largescale designer weather and sun protection systems for public spaces.

3-form.com

mdt-tex.com

miramondo.com

Mizetto

mizetto.se/en

Mizetto is a Scandinavian furniture company with an outdoor site furniture collection, including modular planting systems and dining fixtures fit for parks and schoolyards.

mmcité

mmcite.com/us

mmcité creates quality furniture for urban public areas with a vast product library fit for all street furnishing needs.

Nola

nola.se

Sweden-based Nola collaborates with architects and designers to manufacture unique site furnishings for city streets and parks.

QCP

qcp-corp.com

QCP manufactures an extensive line of precast concrete, steel, and wood architectural amenities and site furnishings, and offers a variety of concrete color and texture combinations for unique public spaces.

Streetlife

streetlife.nl

Streetlife is a sustainable, customizable street furniture company with products made of modular wood and timber building blocks.

Tournesol

tournesol.com

Named for the French word for sunflower, Tournesol is a manufacturer of pots, planters, and site furnishings manufactured in North America. The company also offers high-quality green facade solutions for the architecture and design trades.

Vestre

vestre.com/us

Vestre crafts sustainable public furniture with a lifetime antirust warranty, with customizable accessories like LED lighting and game surfaces.

Victor Stanley

victorstanley.com

Victor Stanley engineers and manufactures standard site furnishings for public spaces, distributed across North America and Canada.

teak.com

Blu Dot

bludot.com

Blu Dot is a Minneapolis-based furniture designer producing modern outdoor seating, tables, and decor for residential patios and decks.

Bosquet

bosquet.us

Bosquet builds unique and durable outdoor furnishings from sustainably sourced North American wood.

Carl Hansen & Søn carlhansen.com

Carl Hansen & Søn is a Danish company crafting outdoor furniture for daily life and maintaining traditional Scandinavian design.

Cassina

cassina.com

Italian outdoor furniture company Cassina possesses a vast product range designed to satisfy a broad spectrum of styles for residential and hospitality settings.

de Sede

desede.ch/en

de Sede’s Swiss-made outdoor sofas and armchairs are suitable for residential terraces, hotels, and restaurants seeking comfort and class.

Division Twelve division12.com

Divisions Twelve’s outdoor furniture collection includes colorful, durable chairs made of weatherproof bent metal.

Emeco

emeco.net

Emeco is a chair designer and manufacturer creating timeless outdoor seating crafted from recycled materials and sustainable resources.

Fermob

fermob.com

Fermob is a French furniture company designing colorful and creative outdoor lighting and furnishings for garden and poolside spaces.

Fritz Hansen

fritzhansen.com

Danish company Fritz Hansen creates contemporary outdoor furniture made of certified wood and durable materials.

Residential GANDIABLASCO & Hospitality Furniture

gandiablasco.com

Andreu World

andreuworld.com

Andreu World is a seating and table furniture company creating high-end outdoor furnishings for residential and hospitality settings.

GANDIABLASCO manufactures bohemian outdoor furniture available through retail stores and online.

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Greenscreen

Trueform Concrete

ArborStakes

Greenspoke

Most Dependable Fountains

Shade Systems

Tournesol’s Greenscreen line includes tables, benches, and planters for commercial and residential outdoor use.

Trueform manufactures prefabricated and custom concrete tables, benches, and mantels for the outdoors.

A r b o r S t a k e s c ra f t s e l e g a n t below-ground tree stake solutions, constructed from U.S.sourced wood and equipped with locks made of plant-based resin.

Greenspoke designs and fabricates bike parking and bike repair stations for parks and communities, and outdoor bike storage rooms for residential projects.

Most Dependable Fountains is a manufacturer that specializes in outdoor drinking fountains and bottle fillers.

Shade Systems is a fabric shade and canopy manufacturer that provides design, engineering, and installation services.

Knoll

Tuuci

Delta Fountains

ICON Shelter Systems

Olev

Thermory

Knoll creates sculptural furnishings for residential exteriors, with both midcentury modern and contemporary collections built to withstand climate.

Tuuci designs outdoor lifestyle furnishing and shade products for exterior commercial, hospitality, and residential environments.

Olev is an Italian lamp designer utilizing smart LED lighting systems in its indoor and outdoor lighting products.

Thermory’s decking, cladding, porch flooring, and sauna systems are distributed to landscapers across the U.S.

Ortal

Timberlab

Ortal is a designer and builder of contemporary frameless gas fireplaces for residential interiors and exteriors; it also manufactures traditional outdoor fireplaces.

Timberlab constructs and designs environmentally conscious mass timber projects for the U.S. commercial market.

tournesol.com

trueformconcrete.com

knoll.com

tuuci.com

Vaarnii

Loll Designs

vaarnii.com

lolldesigns.com

Loll designs and manufactures weatherproof outdoor lounge, dining, and planting furniture made from durable HDPE.

Vaarnii is a furniture company designing objects from Finnish pine, with an outdoor collection featuring sophisticated wooden seating and dining tables.

Pavilion Furniture

Vondom

Inspired by South Florida’s vibrant outdoor-living culture, Pavilion Furniture crafts contemporary exterior furnishing for hospitality, contract, and residential markets.

Vondom is an avant-garde indoor and outdoor furniture company that partners with designers to create unique pieces for hospitality, workplace, and residential spaces.

pavilion-furniture.com

vondom.com

Poliform

poliform.it

Poliform is an international furniture company crafting modern appliances for residential exteriors, including seating and dining furniture, textiles, and outdoor kitchens.

Specialty Anova

anovafurnishings.com

Anova creates outdoor contract furniture installations made of recycled materials to help customers achieve their goals in sustainability and LEED certification.

arborstakes.com

gogreenspoke.com

deltafountains.com

mostdependable.com

olevlight.com

iconshelters.com

Delta Fountains partners with clients to design, manufacture, and install outdoor water feature displays across the United States.

ICON Shelter Systems manufactures industry-standard shelters, gazebos, and transit/bus shelters for public spaces.

Fancy Fence East

Infinity Drain

fancyfenceeast.com

Fancy Fence East provides standard and custom gate configurations made with an exclusive, patented system, working with installation partners to offer gates for design and security.

infinitydrain.com

Infinity Drain is a shower drain manufacturer with linear outdoor drain products that can be used for a diverse range of applications, ranging from outdoor showers to storm drainage.

Fountain People provides clients with high-quality equipment and design services for water features in outdoor commercial, recreational, and residential settings.

LAB23 crafts specialty, sustainability-oriented street furniture for the urban environment, working with both public and private clientele

globaldraintech.com

Global Drain Technologies is a manufacturer of drainage system products and drainage solutions for the outdoors to effectively manage water runoff.

timberlab.com

Watertronics

Parasoleil

watertronics.com

parasoleil.com

LAB23

Global Drain Technologies

thermoryusa.com

ortalheat.com

Fountain People

fountainpeople.com

shadesystemsinc.com

lab23.it/en

Parasoleil is an architectural products company with a collection of shade and screen systems for outdoor spaces.

magnusongroup.com

Magnuson Group manufactures contract furniture for commercial facilities, with an extensive collection of outdoor accessories and furniture in its product line.

Weltevree

weltevree.eu

Platipus Landscape Solutions platipus.us

Magnuson Group

Watertronics develops and maintains landscape and agricultural water-pumping systems.

Platipus provides underground tree-anchoring systems designed for landscaping, rooftop, and over-structure applications.

Weltevree is a Dutch design brand manufacturing specialty outdoor furniture, cooking appliances, baths, and lighting for residential and commercial markets.

yanou

yanou.studio

Royal Botania

royalbotania.com

Royal Botania designs and constructs luxury outdoor lighting, furnishing, and planters for the residential and hospitality markets.

Yanou crafts nature-inspired, handmade planters and select furnishings for hospitality, residential, and commercial outdoor spaces.

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