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CarePartners Senior Living community, Covington. Walking into the courtyard of a CarePartners Senior Living memory care community feels more like entering a botanical garden than a typical care facility. With locations throughout Washington state, CarePartners brings deliberately designed outdoor spaces…
Fieldstone Assisted and Independent Living Community in Olympia, Washington. When the Fieldstone Assisted and Independent Living Community project landed on Jeff Glander’s desk, he had no idea his father-in-law would one day be a resident at the center. As SCJ…
The outdoors has become a refuge for many as the pandemic wears on. From reducing cabin fever to treating Zoom fatigue, spacious parks and beaches provide options for socially distanced picnics, and campgrounds at reduced capacity are giving families space…
A horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) has taken center stage in the design of an assisted living and memory care center project in Covington, Washington. Lovingly referred to as Horsey by the project design team, the nearly 50-year-old tree stands at…
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…
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