The designs of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol express the sculptural qualities of site-specific, contextual landscape. Their multi-disciplinary work studies and strengthens each site's identity of culture, nature, history, and function.

GGN offers special experience in designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban contexts. Our work involves substantial collaboration with other disciplines. On rooftops, over freeways, between buildings, or suspended in the air, GGN's unusual landscapes are designed as sensuous, connected settings for diverse and ever-changing activities.

GGN recognizes the practice of landscape architecture as a careful and inspired consideration of both the spaces and the systems which link us together as cultures, ecologies, and a shared planet. GGN strives to integrate and improve the existing conditions and functions of a site, including clean air, clean water, energy, and shade. These improvements are measured as a part of the larger systems to which a site belongs.

Into boldly sculpted forms, GGN integrates the intricacies of human experience, natural functions, and the vicissitude of landscape. This produces award-winning, contemporary landscapes that feel comfortable at all times, whether bustling with crowds, offering moments of contemplation, or doing both at once. As author Jane Amidon describes, GGN's "gentle warping and cutting (or cupping and canting) of land form in both plan and section allows a flexible perception of spatial volume, enabling the site to be 'empty when full, full when empty.'"

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, in Seattle, and Gustafson Porter, in London, work throughout the world. Founded in Seattle by partners Kathryn Gustafson, Jennifer Guthrie, and Shannon Nichol, GGN applies site-responsive design methods in the Americas and Asia. GGN is a full-service landscape architectural firm, providing conceptual design, construction documents, technical specifications, and construction administration. Our multi-disciplinary group of designers carry backgrounds in landscape design, architecture, engineering, graphics, ecology, and other sciences.

GGN's recent project awards include the ASLA National Design Excellence Award, the Tucker Architectural Award, and multiple WASLA Honor and Merit awards for Design.