Located along the I-95 corridor, just south of the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Embrey Mill is a master-planned community, which includes approximately 2,000 residential units on 831 acres. Embrey Mill has a natural character indicative of Virginia’s Piedmont region with rolling hills and stream valleys, forested areas, historic cemeteries and a cabin that dates back to the civil war. Embrey Mill offers a ten-mile trail system, a public regional park that includes eight active recreation fields, two community centers with swimming pools, multiple community spaces, and public pocket parks with a variety of recreational opportunities. Annapolis Landscape Architects leads the amenity design effort while working closely with the project team.
Client: Newland Communities Architect: Embrey House – Looney Ricks Kiss Engineer: The Kniseley GroupCommercial
Chesapeake Grove at Bembe Beach
Annapolis Landscape Architects worked closely with the design team and the City of Annapolis to develop alternative layouts for this planned unit development. This Chesapeake Bay oriented enclave of townhomes focuses on the viewshed to the Bay while preserving the maximum number of interior trees feasible. The Grove is comprised of key specimen trees centrally located in the primary open space of the community. This project includes a 100’ Critical Area Buffer Management Plan which prescribes native planting along the shoreline. Water access is provided.
Client: A&R Companies Architect: Hammond Wilson Engineer: Bay EngineeringVillage at Crystal Spring Annapolis
Annapolis Landscape Architects provided landscape architectural services for Crystal Spring Annapolis, a fully integrated 111-acre community including a continuing care retirement community, a performing arts center, office space, grocery, inn, retail and residential uses. Tree save areas adjacent to surrounding tree stands and the Critical Areas form the central core of the site while development is focused on the Forest Drive corridor and existing open space. Pedestrian trails are woven through the tree preservation areas and connect the retirement community with the retail areas. Throughout the site natural resources have been preserved and highlighted as part of the design. As an example, the village green, a three-acre central public park space, integrates existing mature trees into the design to create a sense of scale and permanence to the green.
Client: National Lutheran Communities & Services, Affirmative Hillspoint Architect: Perkins Eastman Engineer: J A Chisholm PE LLCMalone Family Memorial Playspace
The Malone Family Memorial Playspace located in Baltimore, Maryland at City Neighbors Charter School was designed to honor the six Malone children who lost their lives in a home fire on January 12, 2017. Upon reaching the one year anniversary of the tragic fire The City Neighbors Foundation launched a design build effort to bring hope and peace to their community by creating a healing garden dedicated to the lost children in the form of a nature inspired playspace. JP MorganChase generously donated the land next to the charter school’s current playspace for the creation of the new playspace.
The design effort brought together students, teachers, families and design professionals to create a space that honors the lives of the Malone Children.
With a theme of ‘Magic in Nature’, the space offered the school and community a green space of learning, exploring, gathering, and healing. The space features a winding pathway around the entire area, climbing equipment, a zipline, slides, swings, interactive educational and natural play materials, musical instruments, and science experiments. At the very heart and at the highest elevation of the playground is the memorial garden, a circle of six cherry trees that serve as a place of remembrance and peace.
Groundbreaking Video: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/children-break-ground-on-playground-to-pay-tribute-to-classmates-lost-to-fire/21100412
Client: City Neighbors Charter School
Architect: Isackson Design Group
Foundation: City Neighbors Foundation
Play Equipment: Landscape Structures; Bears Playground
News
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-malone-playground-20180606-story.html
Race Track Park at Embrey Mill
Located in the community of Embrey Mill, the Race Track Park is the first of a dozen parks to open its gates to the community. Three schematic designs were created for this space, each designed with children of all developmental stages in mind. It was important to create a space that encouraged movement, imagination and at the same time was flexible and visually whimsical. The Race Track Park was chosen for its regional ties to the NASCAR sport and for the fun factor. Annapolis Landscape Architects’ Partner, Sara Thiel led the design and implementation phases of work.
International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC)
Annapolis Landscape Architects (ALA), working with Charles P. Johnson and Associates (CPJ), led the design and construction phases of The International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) Member Memorial Garden. Construction of the memorial was completed in the fall of 2019 at the IUEC headquarters in Columbia, Maryland. The memorial honors over 300 IUEC members who lost their lives in elevator construction related accidents. The IUEC is over 25,000 members strong as of 2020.
Three garden rooms are set within the memorial providing distinct settings for memorial walls which memorialize each person lost. Situated in these garden rooms are five life-sized bronze sculptures by Brodin Studio, which is located in Minnesota. The sculptures are situated in the spaces to interpret both the loss of life of elevator constructors and the impact on their families. Two sculptures of children accentuate the impact on the community when lives are lost. Together the five bronze figures are the focus of the garden creating a sanctuary of reflection for mourners.
ALA considered views from the building into the memorial garden rooms and the sequence of spaces experienced by visitors. The main entry feature is reminiscent of an elevator cab with elevator floor selection buttons engraved on the custom granite piers capped with gas lanterns which flame on a 24/7 basis. These extraordinary piers frame the garden rooms leading visitor through the garden, enhancing the meditative qualities and experience for the visitor.
ALA carefully selected materials to craft the memorial garden. The Mesabi Black Granite walls, piers, and accent paving were supplied by Coldspring, fabricated in Cold Spring, Minnesota. The black granite is complemented by the slate grey modernist precast concrete twist and custom benches by QCP, shipped from California, providing a symbolic gesture alluding to the impact of loss of life. Donor inscribed clay brick pavers supplied by Whitacre Greer are set in an intricately laid out paving pattern. The ornamental iron is designed to reference the scissor elevator cab enclosure doors which were traditionally used around the world and were custom fabricated by G. Krug & Son Ironworks. Krug is an historic iron works located in Baltimore, Maryland founded in 1810 and is recognized as the oldest continuously operating blacksmith shop in the United States.
IUEC Memorial Dedication Video: youtu.be/EwkvDDjTwh4
Client: IUEC Engineer: Charles P. Johnson and AssociatesSculptor: Brodin Studio Sculpture
Photography by Jennifer Shure
Precast Concrete: QCP-corp.com
Ornamental Iron: gkrugandson.com/
Acton’s Landing
This award-winning adaptive infill project is a five-acre site located within the Annapolis Historic District. Annapolis Landscape Architects’ partner, Debby Smith worked on the site design and Annapolis Historic District submission process for this project. The previous Anne Arundel County Medical Center site was redeveloped to include a medium-density residential development, extensive streetscape, and a new waterfront park. This project was officially recognized as a successful example of the State Initiative for Smart Growth. The proposed redevelopment decreases the existing impervious surface significantly. Run-off is managed by a system of best management practice facilities.
Client: Madison Homes Architect: Lessard Architectural Group Engineer: McCrone EngineeringAwards:
- 2010 The International Awards for Liveable Communities, Environmentally Sustainable Projects Award – Gold Award
- 2006 Monument Awards, Maryland-National Capital Industry Association & Northern Virginia Building Industry Association Winner, Innovative Infill Land Planning, 4 to 5 acres
- 2003 Delta Associates Annual Awards for Excellence in the Mid-Atlantic Apartment & Condominium Industries, Best Adaptive Re-use Condominium Project in Baltimore Metro Area