Civita Central Park is an award-winning urban infill project that transforms a former sand and gravel quarry into a sustainable urban village in the Mission Valley neighborhood of San Diego, California. Schmidt Design Group provided landscape architectural services for nearly | Read More
Logged in the 1800s, this 40-acre hillside tract of land in Healdsburg, California was disfigured by flat-pad grading to create work and stockpile areas and crisscrossed with service trails. The site was filled with non-native, invasive and fire-prone plants, | Read More
How do you take advantage of a long narrow San Francisco lot perched on the side of a hill? Stack the house and its terraces to celebrate every possible view on all levels, and then tumble it down into the | Read More
The Magical Bridge Playground in Palo Alto, California is one of the nation’s most innovative inclusive playgrounds — allowing every child and every parent the opportunity to play. Children can move through the trees on an elevated walk and swing, | Read More
Baseball veterans, including a participant from the final game played, were on hand to throw out a ceremonial first pitch for the recent grand opening of San Diego’s Lane Field Park, created by Civitas. The park was placed on the | Read More
Napa Valley Winery Site Inspired by Japanese Aesthetic Kenzo Winery, located in the hilltops of southern Napa Valley in California, is a high-end private winery nestled within a larger, 4,000-acre estate. The ecological framework of Napa Valley focuses on maintaining | Read More
ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career recently produced a video Day in the Life: Landscape Architect. The video allows us to see a typical work day of Janice Nicol, landscape architect at The Office of Cheryl Barton. A great video that | Read More
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The owners desired a modern aesthetic to symbolize a break from their past and to signify a new beginning in their lives. The resulting modern beach house and gardens integrated these needs employing the California tradition of contemporary indoor – | Read More
Isabelle Duvivier (architect/environmentalist), of Duvivier Architects, purchased a dilapidated 100-year-old home in a long established, low-income neighborhood on Brooks Ave. in Venice, California in July 2009. She wanted to blend into the neighborhood by keeping the feel of the craftsman house, but | Read More
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