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Welcome to the latest GGLO news.5/21/2012Bill Gaylord at the 49th International Making Cities Livable Conference
The five-day conference aims to examine the built environment and focus on solutions and ideas to reshape current cities and influence future planning to increase overall well-being for future generations. For more information and a list of keynote speakers and presenters, see Making Cities Livable's website. 5/16/2012Bertschi School awarded Merit Award for Landscape Architecture Having won the 2012 What Makes It Green Award in April, this has been a rewarding month for Bertschi School and the Restorative Design Collective team. Congratulations to all!
The Restorative Design Collective team consists of the following members:
5/15/2012Sustainable Senior Renovation achieves LEED Silver Atria Valley View, an assisted living community located in the hills of Walnut Creek, CA, received LEED® Silver certification from the USGBC in April 2012. This certification marks the second award for the second year in a row that an Atria Senior Living project has received Silver certification, the first being Atria Tamalpais Creek in Novato, California.
Atria Valley View Senior Living has completed a full renovation the existing 2-story residential care facility with 125 apartments. The 2011 renovation work includes reconfiguration of some existing uses, expansion and remodeling of the central community areas, and comprehensive updates of the site and landscape features to enhance outdoor living. The existing building exteriors are updated to incorporate new windows, to remove an outdated mansard roofline, the repair of failing balconies, and new siding, trim, and masonry accents.
The design concept is a redevelopment of the existing site and building to be reminiscent of a Northern California Lodge. One of the primary design ideas is to create a strong indoor-outdoor connections. The primary characteristics of the building concept are the use of natural materials and the introduction of details rich with earth tone colors and textures. Fundamental to the design is the acknowledgement that Atria Valley View is a community for seniors and their families as well as the facility staff. To this end the design is welcoming, accessible and safe.
GGLO provided architectural, interior and landscape design services for Atria Valley View, as well as conducting LEED® administration. Achieving LEED Silver certification demonstrates Atria Senior Living’s commitment to the health and comfort of residents and staff. This latest accomplishment expands our large and rapidly growing list of projects that have achieved green building benchmarking standards, updated in December 2011, total combined unit count and gross building areas are summarized below:
5/11/2012Urban Intervention Exhibit On Display "This design intervention envisions Seattle Center in 2062 as a hyper-productive, hyper-participatory, hyper-flexible, and hyper-aware environment—host to a new global entity: the Global Balance Lab (GBL), where public space becomes the proving ground for collaborative projects that rapidly advance and implement improvements in socio-economic equity and ecological resilience across scales and across boundaries from Wallingford to Brasilia."For more information on Finding Balance and a preview of the other entries, click here.
5/02/2012GGLO Landscape Architecture achieves Excellence Award The Water Court, part of the award winning park, was completed in 2010, and is a collaboration between site artists Haddad|Drugan and GGLO. The Water Court is a portion of the one acre park, located within a newly developed area of Anaheim. Though not a spray park, the Water Court showcases water and encourages interaction with the various water elements of the park. The design team was inspired by on-site orange groves as well as by the historic irrigation map of Anaheim. This map is represented on the Water Court with colored concrete streets, fields, and irrigation lines that sometimes occur as water runnels, shallow pools or water sheet. Colony Park has a large play area for multiple age groups, an informal grassy play field area and picnic shelters to complement the Water Court.
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