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This massive expanse of roof gardens (featured on home page) at Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, provides an expansive and immersive landscape. See below for more:
M-Land Works
Facebook Campus
Large-scale, sustainable office buildings at Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, designed by architect Frank Gehry to promote collaboration and employee well-being. They feature expansive rooftop gardens, open workspaces, and are known for their LEED Platinum certification and innovative”start-up” industrial style architecture
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Role: Landscape Design, Planting Design, DD-CD
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Team: with CMG Landscape Architecture, Gehry Partners, LLP, Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc, Kier + Wright, & Level10 Construction
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Location: Menlo Park, California
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Year: 2015 - 2018
Willie 'Woo Woo' Wong Playground
A renovated, multi-level recreational space in San Francisco’s Chinatown named after a local Chinese-American basketball legend, Willie 'Woo Woo' Wong. Opened in 1927 and renovated in 2021, it features a unique, modern, dragon-and-phoenix-themed, multi-level layout packed into a small area, including a rooftop basketball court, tennis & volleyball courts, and sand-floor play areas.
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Role: Landscape Design, SD-CD
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Team: with CMG Landscape Architecture, Jensen Architects, Urban Design Consulting Engineers & Earthscape Play, Inc., & CLW Builders
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Location: Chinatown, San Francisco
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Year: 2018-2021
Storehouse Plaza
A multi-phase 750-acre project transforming a former Navy base in San Francisco into a new waterfront community. It features over 12,000 homes (including affordable housing), 3 million square feet of commercial space, and 170 acres of parks.
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Role: Landscape Design, SD-CD
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Team: with CMG Landscape Architecture
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Location: Hunters Point, San Francisco
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Year: 2018
Forman Arts Initiative
A Philadelphia-based arts organization to support local artists and cultural organizations through grants (Art Works), residencies (Public Works), and a new 100,000-square-foot arts campus in Kensington opening by 2027. Taking inspiration from the resilience of local ecology, the planting approach will replace invasive species with low maintenance native plantings.
Seasonality is a major driver of the campus experience at FAI. Planting was selected to amplify the experience of these small spaces.
For example the entry garden, planned for the image below will replicate a woodland taking advantage of historic industrial structure casting shade and shadow.
Furthermore, the site will feature a lawn and large pavilion surrounded by a meadow with year-round seasonal interest. Lastly a pocket forest installation and planted courtyard will also be included.
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Role: Landscape Design, SD-CA
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Team: with DIGSAU Architects, Verdantas, ISDG & Intech
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Year: 2025 - 2027
Field Works Beer Garden at Bay Meadows
Bay Meadows in San Mateo is an 80-acre, transit-oriented and mixed-use development that replaced a former horse racetrack with a modern ‘village’. Located next to the Hillsdale Caltrain station, it features over 1,000 residential units, 1.4 million square feet of office/retail space, 18+ acres of parks, and walkable, sustainable amenities
This interim park and beer garden was built partially on structure and was planted with hops and native planting which also adorned the structures and asphalt paving
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Role: Landscape Design, SD-CD
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Team: with CMG Landscape Architecture, RadLab Architects
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Location: San Mato, San Francisco
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Growing from the Root & Agroecology Manual
Philadelphia’s first comprehensive, 10-year urban agriculture plan, released in April 2023 to secure, sustain, and expand community farming which has been essential to immigrant and working class communities throughout the city. Beginning in 2019, it focuses on racial and economic justice, land access for food growers, and policy changes to protect, rather than displace, urban gardens. With the City's zoning codes formally recognizing Urban Agriculture (Community Garden, Market Farm, Animal Husbandry, and Horticulture Nurseries) this unique plan highlights the threat of garden loss and mismanagement as Philadelphia densifies with infill housing.
Work from the plan led to the creation of the Agroecology Manual as written by food ways activists at Soil Generation. M Land Studio helped with the graphic design and production of this political growers guide.
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Role: Urban Planner, Graphic Designer
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Team: with Soil Generation, the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development, & Interface, LLC
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Year: 2019-2023
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Campus Quad: Schematic Design for SCH's campus quad between the historic Inn and the newly renovated exercise and dinning facility. The quad takes advantage of the campus's tradition of using stone materials for seating and retaining edges with a monumental proposal for a stone porch which doubles as an outdoor classroom. Additionally, the Quad's design accommodates loading and storage for operations as well as donor opportunities for parents and alumni.
The Rec [Theater Entry]: Currently under construction, the entrance to this Black Box theater in a renovated historic horse stables features additional stone seating along for a small outdoor amphitheater and parking. Given the site's location in a woodland and at the bottom of a ravine, the planting design takes advantage of the mature canopy with beautiful understory plantings for a peaceful sitting area when not utilized for construction.
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Role: Landscape Design, SD - CD
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Team: with WRT Planning & Design
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Year: 2024 - 2026
M-Land Services
Public Art
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Site Planning & Analysis: Conducting site investigations, feasibility studies, and master planning to determine the best use of land
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Full Service (SD - CA)
Urban Design
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Site Planning & Analysis: Conducting site investigations, feasibility studies, and master planning to determine the best use of land
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Full Service (SD - CA)
Landscape Architecture
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Site Planning & Analysis: Conducting site investigations, feasibility studies, and master planning to determine the best use of land
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Full Service (SD - CA)