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SCJ Studio, our landscape architecture group in Ballard, teamed with Seattle’s ARC Architects to design a civic center for the city of Union Gap, Washington. Centered around a new city hall and police station, the design transforms what was once…
What’s your favorite outdoor place? A park or playground? The shore of a river or lake? Maybe a hiking or biking trail? Your own backyard? When we think about these places, we anticipate the joy they bring. Moments of respite…
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…
You can almost hear the whistle from the old Westerns. You expect to see a tumbleweed roll by. There really is a brown, wooden bar with a sign on the top that reads, “Branding Iron Saloon.” In Twisp, Wash., it’s…
The existing landscape of this Queen Anne backyard in Seattle contained a series of cramped, disconnected spaces on multiple levels with little space to spread out or entertain. SCJ's landscape architecture team of out of Seattle, SCJ Studio, designed a…
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…
Congratulations to Hailey Mackay for publishing her master’s thesis. “The thesis proposes the use of plants to remove hazardous wastes from soil and water, a process known as phytoremediation, as a promising alternative to traditional methods of toxics clean-up. This project focuses…
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…
A determined mom pushing a double stroller, her ponytail swaying from side to side. A cross-country team from the local high school getting in their afternoon run. Golfers, sunburned and sore, ribbing each other over a game well-fought and an…