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Enthusiasm reigns high. RELM celebrates the promotion of Xinxin Shen to Associate (left) and David Christensen to Design Principal (right) as well as professional licensure by Hana Georg (center). Each meaningfully contributes to RELM's design acumen and culture. Congratulations to all! Photos by @alfred_zcj? #RELM_LA #landscapearchitect #landscapearchitecture #promotion

Creating a Pedestrian-Focused Health Sciences Community Led by Wexford Science & Technology, the UC San Diego Science Research Park is a public-private partnership that will create a 23-acre life science and technology research campus integrating office and ancillary retail. Importantly, it will provide an armature for public-facing events and programs through a diverse series of outdoor gathering spaces. From the outset, RELM established a cruciform structure to organize site circulation along two central axes: Innovation Walk and the Campus Mews. Innovation Walk connects the SRP to the existing Health Science Campus to the north, and the growing student housing neighborhood, Mesa Housing, to the south. The Campus Mews draws San Diego’s prized canyon landscape into the site, establishing a strong east-west backbone, and anchoring the SRP's primary address at Regents Boulevard. The axes establish a pedestrian precinct, decanting vehicles to the perimeter, and providing a framework from which each new building draws its address. Moreover, this structure allows the natural landscape for which San Diego is renown to be the defining character and connective tissue of the campus, linking building and open space programming cohesively. UC San Diego ZGF Architects #wexfordscienceandtechnology #RELM_LA #landscapearchitecture #urbangreenspace #campusdesign

RELM collaborated on the master plan and completed the first site programming of the former KorPine Milling site in Bend, OR. The 33-acre campus looks to establish a vibrant, pedestrian focused community that links to surrounding neighborhoods and the river. The first phase of the development is a boutique hotel that seeks to leverage its prominent location and establish itself as a civic destination – as much through its ground floor program, as well as expansive new public spaces. The plaza, embodying the unique experience of a clearing in the woods will establish itself as the heart of the district, fostering all manner of events, gatherings and celebration. Guest amenities draw inspiration from mountain hot springs, redefining the hotel pool deck experience. . . @10sb_architects #RELM_LA #landscapearchitecture #urbanism #urbanplanning #bendoregon #civicdesign #hospitalitydesign #kennedywilsonproperties

Resolving nested bus and pedestrian traffic is essential if a major redevelopment at the MARTA Dunwoody station in Northern Atlanta is to occur. RELM, in collaboration with @hksarchitects, @hraadvisors, @perimeter_atl, and @atlantamarta, studied the station and its surrounding neighborhood, investigating the feasibly of turning the transit hub into a civic-centered, mixed-use development. RELM was charged with creating a compelling open space program to support such use. By resolving circulation into and around the site, we transformed a vehicular-focused transit plaza into an expansive public open space flexible to support year-round programming. We also re-envisioned a storm event spillway into a terraced greenspace, accessible to the surrounding neighborhood.?? ? RELM Founding Principal Scott D. Baker presents our master plan proposal for Dunwoody Station this Monday, September 16th in a panel discussion entitled, Centering the Edge: Suburbia Redefined at the @aspireexperience in Asheville, NC.?? ? ? #RELM_LA? #landscapearchitecture? #transitorienteddevelopment? #urbangreenspace? #mixeduse? #atlanta ?

8850 Sunset Boulevard, a mixed-used project at the intersection of Sunset and San Vincente Boulevards, was approved by West Hollywood’s City Council Monday night.?Sitting at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains and perched above the LA Basin below, the project celebrates the vista condition, offering commanding views of the city and ocean alike. Importantly the project design includes a fully-accessible, public garden off Sunset. The storied boulevard is known for frontages, not gathering spaces, and this immersive garden invites all to enjoy West Hollywood’s iconic hillside terraces.?? Underpinning RELM’s design celebrating hillside topography are demonstration habitats that educate the public on the role native soils play in slope stabilization and regenerative ecologies. Observation decks are directly inserted to the habitat gardens that terrace down San Vincente, educating educate users about soil, plant, and food ecosystems through physical and digital interactive signage.?? ? @arquitectonicaGEO? @mgmtpartners? @8850sunset? @officeuntitled? @theviperroom? #silvercreekdevelopment? #RELM_LA? #landscape architecture? #urbangreenspace? #mixeduse? #westhollywood?

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RELM welcomes our 2024 summer intern, Shuying Rong. A master’s student from the University of Pennsylvania, Shuying enjoys researching how topography, history, demographics, and social need create guiding design perimeters. They imbue a design response with meaning. Welcome, Shuying. . . #RELM_LA #landscapearchitecture #internship #urbanism #internship2024

Community placemaking is at the heart of RELM’s design for the recently opened May Lee State Office Complex in Sacramento. The largest undertaking by @DGSCALIF to date—designed for 5,000 government employees—is envisioned to spur economic development in Sacramento’s River District. Consisting of four high-performance office towers and a parking structure, the 17-acre open space extends into the surrounding urban fabric: it’s not an island unto itself. The central plaza feels welcoming to one individual or a 1,000 gathered for a community event. The design accommodates a range of users and programmatic uses. Importantly, the landscape is highly performative. Our riparian planting design will offset heat island and treat onsite storm water while still being seasonally vibrant year-round. We look forward to watching planting grow in. May Lee will be RELM’s first SITES accredited project and is the largest all-electric, zero-carbon building complex in the U.S. . #RELM_LA #landscapearchitecture #urbannature #mayleestateofficecomplex

Are you looking for a dynamic and hands-on summer internship working on decidedly urban commissions from a studio in downtown Los Angeles? Intern at RELM and work on decidedly urban commissions, coast to coast. Check relmstudio.com for program details and instructions. Applications due Friday, March 1.