SZABO Landscape Architecture, 1000 NW Wall Street Suite 205, Bend, OR (2026)

05/26/2026

Brasada Ranch’s pool complex is all about framing our big Central Oregon sky while keeping the experience grounded, comfortable, and fun for every age. SZABO Landscape Architecture worked within the resort’s established ranch aesthetic with warm materials and a high-desert palette to shape terraces, seating edges, and planted bands that step gently with the topography.

Shade structures, generous lounging zones, and carefully scaled walls and planters carve the larger pool area into intuitive “zones” for play, relaxation, and quiet escape. Planting leans on drought-tolerant, regionally appropriate species that can handle sun, splash, and wind while softening rockwork and pool edges, reinforcing Brasada’s commitment to sustainability and that feeling of “vacation every day” on the high desert flank of Powell Butte.

Photographer: Cheryl McIntosh Quanta Collectiv

05/19/2026

CORE3 is envisioned as the physical backbone of Central Oregon’s emergency readiness. Its landscape and site framework support coordinated training in ordinary times and decisive action when disaster strikes. Located at the regional “hub” near Redmond and the airport, the campus will function as a multi‑agency training ground most days and a coordination center during Cascadia‑scale events, so the landscape is organized around clarity, legibility, and resilience.

SZABO Landscape Architecture structures the site with a clear hierarchy of movement and open space, separating secure operational zones from shared training grounds and more public‑facing areas while maintaining intuitive wayfinding across a large footprint. Durable materials, flexible spaces, and firewise planning manage Central Oregon’s sun, wind, and dust while creating readable outdoor “rooms” for drills, staging, debriefing, and reset between high‑intensity exercises.

Visually and experientially, the landscape ties a highly technical program back to its high‑desert context, using form, texture, and views to connect the campus to the broader Central Oregon landscape it is designed to protect. The result is a site that feels ordered, robust, and ready.

Architect: Hennebery Eddy Architects
Builder: Pence and Cummings Group

05/12/2026

The Lonza campus shows how an R&D environment can feel both high-performance and deeply human. SZABO Landscape Architecture organized the site as a clear outdoor framework with walkable paths, legible entries, and a network of plazas and courtyards that support movement and collaboration.

Layered planting, trees, and integrated green infrastructure soften the campus's technical character, manage stormwater visibly and responsibly, and create more comfortable microclimates at building edges and in outdoor amenity spaces. The result is a landscape that behaves like an industrial complex within a connected, park-like environment.

Durable, low-maintenance plant palettes still deliver seasonal interest and a recognizable campus identity, tying multiple buildings and phases together into one coherent setting. It is a landscape that quietly reflects Lonza’s investment in its people and its commitment to long-term environmental stewardship. 🌿

Architect: BCA
Photographer: Cheryl McIntosh Quanta Collectiv

05/05/2026

A compact front yard can still live big. At the Panama Street Residence, SZABO Landscape Architecture reimagined a tight urban frontage as a series of connected outdoor rooms, giving this family dedicated spaces for dining, lounging by the fire, and a small, flexible lawn for everyday play and impromptu games.

Clean, rectilinear paving, simple planting palettes, and low, unobtrusive edges extend the home’s modern architecture into the landscape so house and yard read as one cohesive setting. Within the compact footprint, careful attention to circulation, furniture placement, and sightlines ensures each zone feels comfortably scaled and purposeful while maintaining an overall sense of openness and calm.

Architect: BCA Architects
Photographer: Cheryl McIntosh Quanta Collectiv

04/14/2026

Towerview Residence is a mountain modern retreat that stages a slow reveal of Mt. Jefferson, with views carefully framed from the moment of entry through the main living spaces and out across layered terraces. A dedicated motor court separates guest arrival from everyday garage use, while a water feature and stone bridge choreograph the approach and establish a calm, welcoming tone.

Across the rear of the home, SZABO Landscape Architecture designed a sequence of stepped terraces to organize outdoor living into distinct “rooms,” including a fire pit lounge, outdoor kitchen and dining terrace, and a lower pool level for long summer evenings. Raised planters, seatwalls, and low divider walls define each space, creating intimacy and clarity of use while preserving panoramic mountain views.

A generous lawn offers flexible play space for a growing family and softens the transition between hardscape and the broader site. Mostly native plantings stitch the residence back into the Central Oregon landscape, while a calibrated mix of natural stone and manufactured pavers provides textural contrast, durable circulation, and crisp edges between terraces and use areas.

Architect: John Muir
Builder: Hayden Homes
Landscape Contractor: LandEffects
Photographer: Cheryl McIntosh Quanta Collectiv

03/24/2026

SZABO Landscape Architecture designed the Forest Edge residence as a sequence of indoor and outdoor rooms that foreground sweeping Cascade views while grounding the home in its volcanic high desert setting. Working closely with the architecture, the landscape choreographs the experience from the arrival sequence through to the west-facing entertaining terrace.

A long, winding drive threads through existing ponderosa pines before opening to a terraced entry courtyard, where acid-washed concrete steps, basalt-clad walls, ornamental grasses, and low lighting create a quiet sense of arrival. Carefully aligned views extend through the house toward the native high desert beyond.

On the west side, the landscape opens dramatically to the mountains. A generous elevated terrace flows directly from the main living spaces and includes an infinity-edge spa and plunge pool, covered dining pavilion, fireplace, built-in seating, and a full outdoor kitchen. Each zone is positioned to capture a distinct aspect of the Cascade panorama while remaining visually and functionally cohesive.

Secondary terraces and decomposed granite paths step through the rocky site to more intimate moments, including a dog run, a small lawn near the yoga studio, and a simple overlook perch tucked among existing rock outcrops. Restrained, regionally appropriate planting softens the edges, strategically emphasizing the site's drama at the focal points.

Architect: Karen Smuland Architect, LLC
Builder: Dennis Staines Construction
Photographer: Cheryl McIntosh | Quanta Collectiv

03/18/2026

The Range Apartments step up the slope above Discovery Park, where new homes meet established trails, foothill views, and open space. Thoughtful grading tucks parking and services out of sight so residents experience a walkable, park‑oriented community from the front door to the trailhead.

Terraced walks, stairs, and planted forecourts turn a challenging grade into an active landscape, stitching buildings to the park with “stoop‑scale” spaces for everyday neighborly encounters. Layered, drought‑tolerant planting mirrors the high‑desert meadow and pine woodland, framing views while offering privacy through elevation and softness instead of fences.

Targeting Earth Advantage Gold, The Range pairs efficient buildings with water‑wise, high‑efficiency irrigation tuned to slope, aspect, and plant needs. The result is a higher‑density community with cool microclimates, four‑season color, and daily, car‑free access to nature right outside your door.

Architect: LEVER Architecture
Builder: Walsh Construction Co.
Landscape Contractor: Aspen Landscape Development
Photographer: Cheryl McIntosh Quanta Collectiv

Discovery West Bend

03/10/2026

Perched on a Central Oregon hillside, the Mountain Modern residence is carefully sited to capture long views while allowing the home to settle naturally into the existing topography. From the earliest stages, the design team aligned building placement, circulation, and view corridors with the contours of the land so that interior spaces and outdoor rooms open directly toward distant mountains and meadows rather than the roadway, creating a continuous, intentional experience as you move through house and landscape.

A clear entry sequence guides visitors from the street, up through subtle elevation changes, and into an enclosed courtyard that introduces the home’s modern material palette and turns the grade shift into a calm, processional approach. Terraces and hardscape are tuned to existing grades to minimize retaining and keep views open, while low board‑formed concrete planters, about six inches high, define outdoor rooms without interrupting sightlines from seating areas to the horizon.

On the primary patio, a composition of different‑sized modern pavers and banding reinforces the architecture’s clean lines and visually elongates the outdoor living spaces along the view axis. Together, these quiet but precise moves create a series of outdoor rooms tailored to daily living that keep the mountains and high‑desert landscape as the true focal point, so architecture and site are experienced as one continuous, carefully crafted environment.

Architect: Neal Huston
Builder: SunWest Builders
Landscape Contractor: Botanical Developments
Photographer: Cheryl McIntosh Quanta Collectiv

03/03/2026

Light, landscape, and shared outdoor rooms shape the Ellen Browning project into a calm, urban retreat on SE Division Street. Located along one of Portland’s most walkable commercial corridors, the site is framed by shops, restaurants, and neighborhood services, so residents can step out into the city or retreat upstairs to a quieter, more intimate realm.

At the street edge, SZABO crafted a sequence of pedestrian-friendly spaces with coordinated paving, planting, and furnishings that slow the pace, create small gathering niches, and gently transition from active sidewalk to front door. A series of terraced patios wraps the upper levels, giving every residence direct outdoor access and layered views back to the city, while painted steel tube-and-rod frames support climbing star jasmine that will grow into leafy privacy screens and a living green façade.

On the fourth floor, a communal rooftop terrace brings together shared amenities—cooking, dining, lounging, and flexible recreation—into a generous social hub for this close-knit community. Planting, screens, and scaled seating areas organize the roof into larger gathering zones and quieter nooks, encouraging casual encounters, shared meals, and everyday outdoor rituals within a durable, restful landscape that will mature alongside the resident community.

Architect: Hacker Architects
GC: Truebeck Construction
Landscape Contractor: Tueful Landscape
Photographer: Jeremy Bitterman (Image 4: Mike Szabo)

02/25/2026

Northpointe Park is a 2.7‑acre neighborhood park in northeast Bend, serving the growing Northpointe community at the edge of Juniper Ridge. SZABO collaborated with Bend Park & Rec and neighbors to balance new amenities with preserved rock outcrops and mature junipers so the park feels rooted in its high‑desert setting.

Community input called for a generous open lawn, shaded play, and spaces welcoming to all ages, leading to a plan organized around a central lawn bowl framed by activity zones and native areas. A canopy‑shaded playground, small skate area, and nature play zone blends modern amenities with boulders, logs, salvaged juniper trunks, and a dry creek bed that also manages on‑site drainage.

Topography shapes key moments, from a rock outcrop that buffers nearby homes to an overlook bench with views across the park to the distant Cascades. A welcoming seating plaza, resilient, colorful planting, and soft‑surface trails through preserved open space give neighbors choices of sun or shade, active play, or quiet retreat.

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Landscape Contractor: Greenthumb Landscaping
Civil: Hickman Williams Associates
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Photography: Cheryl McIntosh

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