HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES FIRM PROFILE
Hargreaves Associates is a professional consulting firm comprised of landscape architects and planners with offices in San Francisco, California, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City. The firm is a California corporation employing eight principals, eight senior associates, ten associates, and twenty eight other full-time professionals. The work includes a wide range of urban design, waterfronts, public parks, academic, corporate, institutional, and residential planning and design projects, and the staff’s extensive range of expertise reflects the firm’s wide rage of project types. Since its founding in 1983, the firm has developed particular expertise in two areas: campus master planning and open space design; and reclamation of neglected or abandoned sites for public occupation, often on waterfronts or in urban cores. In all projects the firm’s work centers on planning and design that is specific to a site including its historical context, its natural processes and the uses aspired to for that site. The firm’s work embodies a commitment to ‘civic’ vitality and creative solutions that meld cultural desires, functional needs and site. Hargreaves Associates is an established international leader in the design of public open spaces. Hargreaves Associates has received 27 American Society of Landscape Architecture awards over the past 23 years. The firm has enjoyed particular success in unifying disparate building types and disconnected or abused open spaces within a cohesive civic identity, incorporating and celebrating layers of site history, regional character, environmental processes, and unique programming needs of the respective projects. We offer unsurpassed experience in open space projects addressing civic growth, the establishment of a strong overall image, the creation of places for play, gathering, learning and exchange, phasing strategies, and the resolution of functional issues related to community connections and circulation. The firm’s organization centers on projects. The principals and associates assigned to a project remain committed throughout that project’s life. Hargreaves Associates’ projects encompass a wide range of scales and locations, both national and international. Several significant projects include: participation on the winning team for the World Trade Center Site Competition in New York City; the Olympics 2000 in Sydney, Australia; the Native American Museum in Oklahoma City; the Louisville Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky; University Commons and Campus Green at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio; Guadalupe River Park in San Jose, California; Crissy Field in San Francisco;