October 23, 2023 - Pacific Horticulture announced this past week that Seattle Residence: Native Gardens has won the Design Futurist Top Prize. For the inaugural year of this award, the jury was seeking projects that exemplify climate-resilient garden design and embody values such as biodiversity, sustainability, and finding joy in nature.
We're honored to hear the jury found this space "dreamy" and "stunning" and that "It had all the wildness that you could ever want, just cheerfully tamed. Everything felt like it had migrated into its place and was happy there.”
October 1, 2023 - GGN has launched a new initiative: Meadowshop.
We believe that everyone should be able to live immersed in authentic, local nature that tells the true story of their home. We formed Meadowshop to make this site-specific, local landscape more accessible to people who live in our home region of the Pacific Northwest.
At the same time as offering all-native residential garden services, Meadowshop is a community of much-needed demonstration and testing plots across the city and region. Together, many small plots can collectively grow our region’s knowledge of best practices with these under-utilized but garden-worthy plants.
GGN is excited to work with homeowners in the Pacific Northwest who long to transform their outdoor space into an all-native garden that is exuberant and intriguing throughout the seasons, supporting local insect, bird, and wildlife populations, and richly instructive as an example of the plants that have long called this region home.
September 28, 2023 - San Antonio’s new 7-acre Hemisfair Civic Park will open to the public this Saturday, September 30, 2023. GGN led the project alongside the City of San Antonio and Hemisfair Park Area Redevelopment Corporation (HPARC) in collaboration with the contractor Skanska and the larger design team. Saturday’s celebration marks the Phase 1 opening, and the park will be completed with Phase 2 in late 2024.
Located within the 1968 “HemisFair” International Exposition grounds, Hemisfair Civic Park is adjacent to the world-famous River Walk and surrounded by several vibrant and growing neighborhoods. The park design introduces public plazas and courtyards, an event lawn and stage, intimate gardens with springs, and a promenade that connects spaces within and beyond the park. Designed as a “place that fits” San Antonio’s life, character, and vision, the Civic Park’s design is rooted in the history of this place while also looking to its future.
“Hemisfair is all about building connections to the amazing regional landscape, the city’s unique fabric, and most of all to the lives of San Antonians,” said David Malda, Design Principal at GGN. “Civic Park is a key piece of the larger urban transformation of a former World’s Fair site into a more livable and welcoming place.”
