GGN works to express hidden histories and repair connections in the landscape.

 
 

Seattle

1932 1st Ave, Suite 700
Seattle, WA 98101
206 903 6802
 

Washington, DC

1300 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20036
202 338 0014

GGN is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle. Our firm’s 45 employees have backgrounds in landscape design, architecture, art, engineering, and ecology. GGN offers extensive experience in designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban contexts.  

GGN is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award and the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture in 2011. The firm’s project awards include ASLA National Awards of Excellence, ASLA and AIA Honor Awards for Design, Tucker Design Awards, Society for Campus and University Planning Awards, and Great Places Awards from the Environmental Design Research Association.  

For new work inquiries, please contact Cheryl dos Remedios.

 

Mission

 

GGN is a diverse community of humbly curious, creative, and collaborative designers and specialists. We enjoy continuous learning and solving problems through a combination of open-minded listening, rigorous research, and hands-on trial and error. We readily say, “I don’t know,” and “I will figure it out.” We openly share testing and learning outcomes with each other, our teams, our clients, and our communities.

GGN believes that landscape architecture is an intuitive, creative, and beautiful fusion of art, function, service, science, and equity. We believe that our work should be generously beautiful in ways that excite and inspire others while creatively expressing the respective communities and ecologies of each project. We have a culture of open, critical design dialogue around subjective and objective design qualities, including conceptual clarity, spatial composition, aesthetics, harmony, variety, expression, language, and design form rationale as connected to concept and expression.

Each member of GGN brings a distinct background and unique set of skills; however, we share a core set of values, aspirations, and traits that guide our way of working together: 

  • We have a passion for connecting people to the authentic nature and the true, rich cultural stories of each local place.

  • We believe that connecting people to their local landscape also connects people to each other.

  • We see, respect, and share the unique qualities that exist on and around a site and local place before introducing new notions.

  • We repair and empower historic ecologies, natural systems, and vernacular patterns in the landscape before replacing or displacing them.

  • We design as humble partners with the community members of each place, with a special focus on partnering with and foregrounding historically underrepresented and/or vulnerable members of the community.