Ranking #4 Among MA's Largest Landscape Architecture Firms
The Boston Business Journal has released their 2024 list of the largest Landscape Architecture firms in Massachusetts, ranked by in-state project revenue. We are proud to have our practice rank as the fourth largest in the Commonwealth.
Our practice, led by Vice President Bob Uhlig, FASLA, incorporates a passionate, creative team of landscape architects and designers, working collaboratively across our lines of service to deliver thoughtful and sustainable open spaces.
Our recent award-winning landscape architecture projects include:
Bristol County Agricultural High School
The renovations to the 270-acre campus, led by HMFH Architects, were supported by extensive landscape design work by Halvorson | Tighe & Bond Studio which thoughtfully integrated both existing and new buildings within the school’s setting as a working farm.
The transformation of the campus included several new buildings on North Campus, including the Center for Science and the Environment, Dairy Barn, and Student Commons. South Campus also received an extensive redesign, with new landscaped features and an Arbor/Landscape workshop. The campus landscape connects North and South Campuses with an accessible pedestrian corridor, while promoting outdoor interaction and education with new plazas, a lawn amphitheater, and hands-on growing areas.
Huntington Shopping Center
The shopping center was transformed from a strip mall into an upscale retail destination that stands out as a unique shopping experience intended for everyday needs. We served as landscape architecture consultant, designing new ornamental planting beds to separate shopping areas from adjacent driveways, seating areas with decorative fountains, and other sculptural elements that create welcome surprises in the landscape. Shoppers are welcomed to the plaza with a cluster of Ginkgo trees and a prominent sign feature, creating a one-of-a-kind feel for this retail center.
Thomson Place Plaza
The design for Thomson Place thoughtfully incorporates features reflecting the industrial heritage of the neighborhood, from original timber beams salvaged from the buildings’ renovations, which were transformed into seating for the new pedestrian plaza, to new metal stanchions that recall the nearby Summer Street Bridge spanning Fort Point Channel. Halvorson designed the new plaza, with plantings, paving, catenary lighting and a custom wooden screen.
Public Dock Planned for Boston's Herter Park
Restoring Boston Public Garden's Historic Fountains
Quincy Dedicates New Park to City's Naval History
Bristol Aggie Landscape Redesign Wins BSLA Award
Huntington Shopping Center Receives Long Island Business News Award
Lewiston Riverfront Master Plan Featured in High-Profile Magazine
Bristol Aggie CSE Wins Learning by Design’s Grand Prize Award
Planning for Resiliency Along Boston Harbor
Wharf District Resiliency Plan: A District-Wide, Adaptable Plan for Boston Harbor
The Wharf District Council Conceptual District Protection & Resiliency Masterplan, released in June of 2023, details a shared vision of a district, long-term, flood resilience strategy for the Boston harbor based on a years-long engagement of residents, business and property owners, institutions, and other stakeholders. Building on past planning studies by the City of Boston, as well as property owners’ own engineering studies, the plan evaluated potential solutions to design a flood-mitigation system that preserves the character and function of the waterfront while expanding opportunity and access across the site.
Our team served as landscape architecture and urban design consultants for the Master Plan, partnering with a project team that included Wharf District Council and prime consultants Arup. Our consultant team was brought in to assess the spatial and social impacts of resilient engineering and design solutions and to visualize the planning recommendations through compelling graphics that engaged stakeholders and the community and that realized the shared district-scale resiliency plan.
Thorough investigations began with stakeholder and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) partner engagement, with collecting flood hazard insights, and with aligning to prior planning initiatives. A due-diligence assessment was conducted to review prior planning, technical, and regulatory information, as well as access and usage considerations.
The final resiliency plan created a raised contiguous Harborwalk experience that unifies and expands recreational, social, cultural, and economic opportunities while providing long-term flood mitigation and infrastructural systems like new outfall storage cisterns, pump stations, and redundant fail-safe systems to create a flexible, segmented sub-district strategy that facilitates a phased construction.
The City of Boston’s Climate Ready Boston and Coastal Resilience Solutions reports provide guidelines for district-scale flood resiliency projects, including Design Flood Elevations (DFEs), Alignments, Evaluation Criteria, and Strategies. The Wharf District resiliency plan built off these prior planning efforts by using these guidelines and incorporating updated flood models prepared for MassDOT. The report recommends designing improvements to meet the City’s existing “Target DFEs”, then raising protection systems over time to meet the newer “Strategic DFEs” while seeking opportunities to improve the Harborwalk experience and connectivity.