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Hospital Campus Plan & Sculpture Park

ChangeIsGood — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 06:34:50 +0000

Landscape Architecture

Our landscape architects begin with a deep respect for nature, culture and history. Drawing from these elements, our designs seek to welcome, delight, inform, inspire and enlarge our lives.

Hospital Campus Plan & Sculpture Park

Lehigh Valley Hospital

Collaborative VP of Design Kaye Lynn Johnson designed a campus plan and sculpture park for the 120-acre Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA, a regional acute care facility with over 14,000 daily visitors. Thirty-two major pieces of art were selected and sited in settings across the campus, creating outdoor spaces that interpreted the landform, the area’s cultural history and aesthetic qualities of the sculptures themselves.

This sculpture garden is listed in “Sculpture Magazine” in their directory of sculpture gardens with the following short description: “Philip and Muriel Berman Sculpture Park: The Nation’s largest display of outdoor art in a healthcare setting with 28 works by Cassidy, Garofalo, Gordon, Hide, Hock, Isherwood, Kainz, Macklin, Shaw, Sternal, and Zweygardt.”

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Abernathy Greenway

ChangeIsGood — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 06:30:47 +0000

Landscape Architecture

Our landscape architects begin with a deep respect for nature, culture and history. Drawing from these elements, our designs seek to welcome, delight, inform, inspire and enlarge our lives.

Abernathy Greenway

City of Sandy Springs, GA

The Collaborative’s John Cheek created the original concept design for the highly used Abernathy Greenway. The Greenway includes a parkway and adjoining linear park that both buffers and serves neighborhoods along Johnson Ferry Road and Abernathy Road in the City of Sandy Springs, GA. Firm designers later coordinated the project’s final design and construction. Services included concept design, design details for signs, neighbor property screening, and the placement of playable art commissioned by a local non-profit. Each of the six art pieces required the design of a safety surfacing zone, adjustment of site grading and the redesign of plant beds. The Collaborative directed the installation of 20,000 plants. For the implementation of the Greenway’s trail network, the Collaborative oversaw the installation of paving using a pervious paver system.

The 6.6 acre linear park opened July 2014. Atlanta Magazine named The Playable Art Park a “Best of Atlanta 2014” park. In the true spirit of collaboration, a community group, consisting of neighborhood representatives, worked with the city throughout the planning and construction phases, helping guide the vision.

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Riverside Drive Roundabouts

ChangeIsGood — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 06:26:25 +0000

Landscape Architecture

Our landscape architects begin with a deep respect for nature, culture and history. Drawing from these elements, our designs seek to welcome, delight, inform, inspire and enlarge our lives.

Riverside Drive Roundabouts

Georgia Department of Transportation

In 2016, the Collaborative took on a unique challenge in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Two new roundabouts at the interchange of I-285 and Riverside Drive were in need of landscaping to capture the salient qualities of the nearby Chattahoochee River. The Collaborative created a design that successfully mirrored the best features of the 434-mile-long Chattahoochee River which rises high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia and flows southwesterly toward the Alabama state line. The Chattahoochee River Basin is inhabited by about 24 species of freshwater aquatic turtles, about 37 species of salamanders and sirens, about 30 species of frogs and toads, and the American alligator. It is also home to 9 state threatened or endangered plant species.

Low blue metal panels and grey-blue fescue grass recall the flowing river. Brown stones, along with green shrubs and trees mark the shoreline. Street pavers and stone walls visually connect the flowing course of the river across both circles.

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Bartram’s Garden Master Plan

ChangeIsGood — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 09:35:13 +0000

Landscape Architecture

Our landscape architects begin with a deep respect for nature, culture and history. Drawing from these elements, our designs seek to welcome, delight, inform, inspire and enlarge our lives.

Bartram's Garden Master Plan

City of Philadelphia, PA

Kaye Lynn Johnson, Collaborative VP for Design, completed the master plan and design for the 47-acre Bartram's Garden along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA. The Garden, encompassing John Bartram's original early 1700s farm, is considered to be the first botanical garden in the United States. The master plan, currently being implemented, interweaves elements of the garden's history with modern needs and functions. These elements include re-planting a garden and orchard where John Bartram cultivated plants that he gathered from each of the original 13 colonies and re-establishing the waterside entrance to the Garden with a path that extends the Garden's riverfront.

The master plan also expands the Bartram's Urban Farm and Community Supported Agriculture program and includes a walking path that interprets the first compromise in the making of the U.S. Constitution. Also included are an outdoor amphitheater, retreat center, outdoor classrooms, recreational boating center, a natural sciences education center and a conference facility.

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