Tag Archive: Environmental Design

Railroad Switch Fencing Animates the Path at the Hagerstown Cultural Trail

The Hagerstown Cultural Trail features a linear park bordering a light industrial area. Vicki Scuri SiteWorks designed screening fences that run along the trail separating the park from warehouse buildings and work yards.… Continue reading

“MEDIC / Response” Honors and Uplifts

On March 21, we attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new MEDIC Headquarters in Charlotte, NC. Hosted by Mecklenburg County, this opening allowed us to see inside the state of the art… Continue reading

“MEDIC / Response” Design Development

Our project at the new Mecklenburg EMS Agency MEDIC Headquarters building in Charlotte, NC, began as an opportunity to enhance seventeen monolithic concrete security barriers placed between the building and busy Wilkinson Boulevard,… Continue reading

South Bellevue Station: Final Designs

The South Bellevue Station’s Public Art Enhancements include a pattern strip on the facade of the guideway acoustic panels and large graphic images wrapping the columns below the platform. The imagery for these… Continue reading

South Bellevue Station: Site Inspiration

The South Bellevue Station is part of Sound Transit’s East Link Light Rail Extension. This line starts in Seattle, crosses Lake Washington, turns north through Bellevue, ending in Redmond, home of the headquarters of Microsoft. This corridor… Continue reading

Part 2: Kellogg: Webb Road Redesign

Part 1 of this series on our Kellogg project, in Wichita, KS, explained the initial conceptual design inspirations for the project and demonstrated how these inspirations influenced our primary design work. After these… Continue reading

Part I: Kellogg: Initial Design Inspirations

Our Kellogg project, in Wichita KS, will soon begin construction. The concepts presented in this post document our initial work. The project started in 2007 and has changed significantly over those eight years.… Continue reading

Part I: Airway Turbine Sculpture Fabrication and Installation Site Review

In the spring of 2013, we started the redesign of the Airway Aesthetic Improvement Project, introducing light sculptures and functional turbines with armatures to promote a gateway aesthetic at I-10 and Airway. Airway… Continue reading

Tulsa I-244 Pedestrian Bridge: MSE Formliner Patterns

The pedestrian bridge crossing the Arkansas River in Tulsa has a series of concrete retaining walls associated with it. These walls are made of MSE precast panels. These panels have surface relief patterns… Continue reading

Evolution of Process, Part 3: Future Goals

Even though our digital process now lets us give valuable visuals of our designs to our clients, they are not true real world representations. This can lead to models seeming too perfect or… Continue reading