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The Oregon chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will hold its 2017 design awards this Friday night. SCJ Principal Landscape Architect Mark S. Garff is one of the five jurors. Mark said, “It was an honor to…
Photography: Doug Walker (walkerphoto.com) During the wettest rainy season in Puget Sound history, a whole team of little girls had dry shin guards. The U9 soccer team out of Lacey, Wash. practiced at a few fields around town, but strongly…
Located in the City of Lake Forest Park, the new and improved Eagle Scout Park is now officially open to the public! Originally a grassy area populated with defunct outdoor exercise equipment and aging birch trees, SCJ's Seattle landscape architecture…
After nearly two decades as a landscape designer, Jill McFarland is now a landscape architect. “Most people already thought I was one,” she laughed. “Even my kids!” Jill went to architecture school at the University of Minnesota and earned her master’s in landscape…
The tiny town of Yarrow Point, population 1,010, is surrounded on three sides by water. It’s nestled along the eastern shore of Lake Washington, a stone’s throw from big-city neighbor, Bellevue, located just a few miles south. Nearly three quarters…
The morning bell rings at 8:10 for elementary students in Chehalis, Wash. The journey to get there may have been smooth, rainy, bumpy, sunny or all of the above. Maybe the school bus picked them up right on schedule and…
At some homes in the Pacific Northwest, yard space is an afterthought. Nine months of gray casts a shadow on the idea of outdoor living, and homeowners shift their focus inside. At others, it’s the main attraction. The team at…
Better sleep. Reduced aggression. Shorter hospital stays. Reduced need for pain medication. An 84 percent drop in hip fractures! These may sound like the promises of a drug company or an overeager fitness nut, but one thing that has been…
The creative minds at Project Groundwork, a residential landscape architecture studio in our Seattle office, find no greater satisfaction than successfully integrating a client’s vision and needs into a well-thought-out plan that is site sensitive, allows for outdoor living, provides four…
For the Mazagan Beach Resort in Morocco, SCJ Landscape Architect Miranda Estes was the project manager from master planning through construction. From private residences in Martha’s Vineyard to resorts in places like Dubai and China, Landscape Architect Miranda Estes has…
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