Contact us today Great ideas and skilled hands create extraordinary landscapes. Each interior space relates directly to a dedicated private exterior space, while the house and gardens benefit from and add to the wider landscape beyond the site”. Greenbank provides landscape design, construction, and maintenance services for extraordinary landscapes in Seattle and greater Puget Sound. Of this project, with George Suyama of Suyama Peterson Deguchi, the jury said” we found everything to admire in this design, most specifically the integration of the interior and exterior spaces, the placement of house in the landscape, and the selection and detailing of materials. In 2005, an AIA Jury for Washington Architecture, gave the Schuchart Residence its only honor award. Annual AIA Seattle Honor Awards Program, architect Shigeru Ban of Tokyo and architect Brigette Shin of Toronto said of the Leschi Residence, with Eric Cobb, “Through an elegant landscape design by Bruce Hinckley, Alchemie, the street elevation of this surprising house generously presents itself to passerby while still retaining the privacy of life inside,” and of the Fauntleroy residence with architects Suyama, Peterson, Deguchi, “ The Fauntleroy Residence stands out as an instance of masterful design, an achievement of international stature… (it) engages its context and site at every level… a deeply, personal, world-class achievement.” Bruce and Mario frequently explore wild landscapes in remote corners of the West while engaging in a long-standing dialog about design and ways of living with nature.ĭuring the 52nd. Brought up in a family of artists and designers, and educated at Rhode Island School of Design and Art Center College of Design, Mario brings a passion for design excellence and a love of the natural world to each project. Mario Laky joined Alchemie in 2006, bringing a fresh perspective and additional technical skills.
Hinckley received the first Design Achievement Award presented to a landscape architect by Seattle Homes & Lifestyles Magazine and the Seattle Design Center In October 2003, and was listed as one of the Seattle 100: the People, Places, and Things that define Seattle Design, in the February 2006 issue of that magazine. Having developed a quiet reputation as a designer’s designer, Bruce Hinckley has had the privilege of working with many of the finest architects in the region on their own homes, including AIA National Award winner Tom Kundig, AIA Citation Award winner Eric Cobb, and AIA Honor Award winner George Suyama. Hinckley travels regularly in wilderness areas for inspiration and has design studios in Ketchum, Idaho and Seattle, Washington. Whether working on a six-thousand-acre master plan or a tiny rooftop courtyard, the extension of architecture into landscape is a guiding principle. These plans have continued to serve as an armature for campus expansion with the introduction of new greens, gardens, courtyards, buildings, and wetlands.Alchemie was founded in 1981 by Landscape Architect Bruce D. Four radial axes including Memorial Way, the Liberal Arts Quadrangle, the Olympic Vista, and the Rainer Vista extend from the core connecting the plaza. Red Square serves as the institution’s academic core. Today, the campus reflects both the Olmsted and Regents Plans. In 1961 the high-spouting Drumheller Fountain replaced Geyser Basin at the head of the Rainer Vista. The Regents Plan placed a library plaza, named the Central Plaza, at the convergence of the quadrangles. That plan was rejected in favor of a design known as the Regents Plan, by architect Carl Gould, that reduced the scale of the Olmsted Brothers’ quadrangles while maintaining the principal axes and views. In 1911 the Olmsted Brothers created a campus plan that integrated the exposition grounds.
Iconic, open vistas provide views of Mount Rainer, Lake Washington, and Lake Union. The design’s centerpiece, the Geyser Basin, anchors the Science Quadrangle. John Charles Olmsted and James Dawson created a system of avenues that linked circular courtyards and lush gardens to frame the Neoclassical buildings planned under John Galen Howard, architect for the exposition. In 1906 the state chose this campus as the site of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The firm redesigned the oval as the Arts Quadrangle (now the Liberal Arts Quadrangle) and installed the Science Quadrangle to the south. In 1903 the university hired the Olmsted Brothers firm to create a new plan. Fuller implemented a campus plan in 1900 by arranging buildings in a simple oval facing a central lawn. In 1893 the university regents purchased 160 acres in Union Bay for the development of a new campus. This university was founded in 1861 in downtown Seattle.