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We are focused on the design of contemporary landscapes, which we see fundamentally intertwined with architecture, urban infrastructure and natural systems.

05/18/2024

We are pleased to share that La Fénix at 1950 has achieved an Honor Award in Community Impact from .norcal!

La Fénix at 1950 provides 157 affordable homes for families in the Mission, as well as a permanent home for nonprofit service providers. The ground level courtyard, or the Zócalo, links amenities to encourage social interaction. The Paseo de Artistas is a mid-block passage with commissioned murals, and art studios and classrooms operated by the Youth Art Exchange. The Jardin de las Familias on the 6th floor is planted with natives and southwest plants, providing a play area, family gathering spaces, and panoramic city views. A partnership with community organizations led the engagement process, which allowed the design to be guided by long-term neighborhood constituents.

Team:
Developers: BRIDGE Housing and
Architect:
Associate Architect/MNC Childcare Architect: Cervantes Design Associates, Inc.
Community Outreach: .sf
Photos: , Chloe Peterson

12/01/2023

88 Park, the first phase of Midway Village in Daly City, is close to completion! Carefully phased to avoid displacement of current residents, this project revitalizes the aging homes at Midway Village, and will be the largest affordable housing development in San Mateo County’s history.

Phase 1 consists of 147 affordable homes, surrounded by a network of new open spaces including parkway, playground for residents and aftercare, trellis, pedestrian-oriented streets and other communal spaces.

Team:

11/17/2023

As part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco, President Biden hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping and other international leaders last night at the at Piers 15 and 17. This momentous occasion comes on the heels of the Exploratorium’s historic achievement of Net Zero Energy operations, making it the largest museum in the United States, if not the world, to generate as much or more energy than it uses on an annual basis.

“As a global leader in science learning, we’re proud to model the innovation and resiliency needed to create a more sustainable world,” said Lindsay Bierman, the Exploratorium’s Executive Director and CEO.

We are proud to have been part of the innovative team that converted two crumbling piers on the Embarcadero into a flexible and adaptable facility that is “an exhibit in and of itself,” creating maximum opportunities for improvisation, change and adaptability, and empowering visitors to care for our planet.

Design partners:

10/21/2023

GLS has received a 2023 ASLA National Honor Award in the Residential Design Category for Sister Lillian Community in San Francisco, completed with and .

Dedicated to Sister Lillian Murphy, 's pioneer in affordable housing who discovered, through her work in public health, a direct connection between physical health, mental health and housing, this community of 152 affordable homes in San Francisco’s Mission Bay is organized around its expansive, verdant open space.

From the jury:
“A purposeful and thoughtful design with the potential to greatly enhance the lives of a typically underserved population. This project demonstrates that a tight budget doesn't always have to be a downer. The designers have created a strong framework for social infrastructure!"

10/20/2023

Join the project team of the Christie Avenue Sites Housing and Park Expansion .housing this Saturday in Emeryville’s Christie Park!

We will be sharing the latest concepts of the proposed Christie Park expansion, and collecting ideas for the naming of the future housing development.

Project renderings by David Baker Architects; previous Community Meeting photos by GLS .land.arch

10/07/2023

The Monterey Conference Center Portola Plaza has won a 2023 Urban Design Award form AIA California!

The renovation of Portola Plaza, completed in conjunction with the renovation of the 40-year-old Monterey Conference Center by , reinvigorates an important economic driver for Monterey. The Plaza is the civic gateway and living room of the city, terminating an important retail street, activated on all sides by important uses and serving as a connector between the downtown and the historic cannery waterfront.

From the jury: "The Conference Center addition creates a transparent and compelling backdrop–to a curbless public realm–that appropriately preferences the pedestrian as much as the car, despite the obvious need for a vehicular dropoff. The geometries of the space simultaneously allow for flexibility while centering the composition. Lighting, landscaping, and artistic ground plane treatments work together to reinforce a distinctive environment."

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05/20/2023

Sister Lillian Murphy Community, designed by and with GLS, has been awarded a 2023 Housing Award in the category of Excellence in Affordable Housing.

Organized around an expansive, verdant open space, this community of 152 affordable homes in San Francisco’s Mission Bay is dedicated to Sister Lillian Murphy, former CEO and a local pioneer who discovered, through her work in public health, a direct connection between physical health, mental health and housing. A ground level music school and childcare center open onto a giant timber bamboo forest that meanders through multi-level courtyards, connecting homes and community services through open air circulation. The project's outdoor spaces provide a rare opportunity for intergenerational mixing, creative play, and interaction with neighbors.

04/11/2023

Spring is in full display at the New Stanford Hospital. The 12-acre medical campus is designed with a strong landscape narrative that prioritizes the connection to nature as central to its mission of healing for patients and families, while providing a healthy workplace for faculty and staff. This landscape centered model reduces operational costs by addressing psychological, social and physical needs of the entire healthcare community.

04/01/2023

The Orchard of Medicinal trees serves as a gateway to the New Stanford Hospital reminding patients, families and staff that the roots of modern medicine have their origins in therapeutic plants. The orchard also provides temporary parking and a respite in a garden setting for those who visit the emergency room.

10/29/2022

HOPE SF: Rebuild Potrero has won the American Society of Landscape Architects National Award of Excellence in the Urban Design category!

The jury praised the urban design as a “masterful integration of affordable housing into intense topography that defines new hierarchies of public space.”

Rebuild Potrero is reinventing public housing while providing vulnerable citizens a refuge from displacement. 606 units of aging public housing are being replaced by a denser and more diverse mix of housing types. The 38-acre neighborhood will have a unique open space network of terraces, sloping parks, community services and streets linked together by landscaped staircases carved from the south-facing serpentine slopes of Potrero Hill.

A crucial component of the project is the commitment to maintain community. By carefully phasing construction, current residents will not be relocated off site at any time during the process. The first phase of housing has been built and was occupied in Spring 2019.

Team: Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP, , Carlile Macy, HKIT Architects, BRIDGE Housing,

https://www.asla.org/2022awards/

10/19/2022

We are pleased to share that GLS has won two National Awards of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects! HOPE SF: Rebuild Potrero, a 38-acre redevelopment of aging public housing that reconnects an isolated neighborhood while protecting residents from displacement, has won the Award of Excellence in the Urban Design Category, and Edwin M. Lee Apartments, the first combined veteran and low-income family housing project in San Francisco, has won the Award of Excellence in the Residential Design category. What these two projects have in common is a vision for expanding the role of landscape as a tool for building equitable communities. We will be delving further into each project in our upcoming posts.⁣
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The full list of winners is in the link in our bio.⁣
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Congratulations to our project partners and to our fellow award winners!⁣
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Edwin M. Lee Apartments: , , , , , ⁣
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HOPE SF: Rebuild Potrero: , .a.studio, , , , , ⁣
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06/04/2022

Congregation Kol Emeth, completed with Field Architecture and EID Architects, is the nation's first LEED Platinum synagogue, and has received a Merit Award from .

"The jury praised the innovative and provocative use of recycled wood on the exterior. The building sits beautifully in its landscape – featuring a native planting garden with rainwater catchment – and the delicacy of movement from inside to out is uncommon for an institutional project, encouraging community with the diverse ways that spaces can be used and experienced. This is an evocative, beautiful project that transforms the synagogue."

Congratulations to , , and the entire project team!

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