Civic Gallery

Conversion of a 19th Century cemetery to an urban park for passive enjoyment by repairing gravestones, planting, adding benches, and identifying the graves of notable citizens from Trenton's past. A favorite gathering place at lunchtime for nearby office workers.

Conversion of a 19th Century cemetery to an urban park for passive enjoyment by repairing gravestones, planting, adding benches, and identifying the graves of notable citizens from Trenton's past. A favorite gathering place at lunchtime for nearby office workers.

An urban streets-cape and plaza in downtown Atlanta with trees, water, sculpture and seating connected to the city with a colonnade of winged elm street trees.

The landscape design creates a 25-acre roof garden on four levels with public plazas, park spaces and streetscape. The building structure is extended on shaded decks with trees, water, paving and vines.

The landscape design creates a 25-acre roof garden on four levels with public plazas, park spaces and streetscape. The building structure is extended on shaded decks with trees, water, paving and vines.

The landscape design creates a 25-acre roof garden on four levels with public plazas, park spaces and streetscape. The building structure is extended on shaded decks with trees, water, paving and vines.

Urban plaza executed at street level above a sunken fountain/plaza space and on two other levels as roof gardens. Street trees shade and cool the busy space while the quiet, secret gardens on the roof provide a respite from the active street life below.

This award winning Pier A Park, recently voted one of the 10 best urban parks in the United States by the Urban Land Institute, contains 5 acres of recreational public open space, as part of the 26-acre waterfront park. It is an unparalleled example of sustainable urban tree planting technology.

This award winning Pier A Park, recently voted one of the 10 best urban parks in the United States by the Urban Land Institute, contains 5 acres of recreational public open space, as part of the 26-acre waterfront park. It is an unparalleled example of sustainable urban tree planting technology.

This award winning Pier A Park, recently voted one of the 10 best urban parks in the United States by the Urban Land Institute, contains 5 acres of recreational public open space, as part of the 26-acre waterfront park. It is an unparalleled example of sustainable urban tree planting technology.

This award winning Pier A Park, recently voted one of the 10 best urban parks in the United States by the Urban Land Institute, contains 5 acres of recreational public open space, as part of the 26-acre waterfront park. It is an unparalleled example of sustainable urban tree planting technology.

A public park on the Raritan River incorporating the historic D & R Canal Outlet Locks and the Rutgers boathouse with paths, bosques, open space and concessions buildings. The parks system of pedestrian and bicycle paths connects to a 46-mile recreational path.

A 40-acre park on the National Mall, north of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, composed of gently contoured meadows, a seven-acre lake, a spreading irregular canopy of trees, and sinuous paths. A collaborative design with SOM.

A 40-acre park on the National Mall, north of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, composed of gently contoured meadows, a seven-acre lake, a spreading irregular canopy of trees, and sinuous paths. A collaborative design with SOM.

Plantings are the linking elements defining a continuous experience for the visitor in a sequential arrangement ending in a circular grove of clipped trees.

Plantings are the linking elements defining a continuous experience for the visitor in a sequential arrangement ending in a circular grove of clipped trees.

Plantings are the linking elements defining a continuous experience for the visitor in a sequential arrangement ending in a circular grove of clipped trees. Rodinesque soldiers by Frank Gaylord

Served as landscape architectural consultant on the design team to integrate the memorial into the topography and tree pattern of the Constitution Gardens. Receives over one million visitors per year.

An artwork collaboration with Maya Lin located at the entrance to the Hornets stadium. The sloping median suggested a giant whimsical game board.

An artwork collaboration with Maya Lin located at the entrance to the Hornets stadium. The sloping median suggested a giant whimsical game board.

In the center of an eight block urban office park, civic spaces are linked by pedestrian streets. The central Commons is a venue for public art, performances and daily casual gatherings.

In the center of an eight block urban office park, civic spaces are linked by pedestrian streets. The central Commons is a venue for public art, performances and daily casual gatherings.

In the center of an eight block urban office park, civic spaces are linked by pedestrian streets. The central Commons is a venue for public art, performances and daily casual gatherings.

A public park on the Raritan River incorporating the historic D & R Canal Outlet Locks and the Rutgers boathouse with paths, bosques, open space and concessions buildings. The parks system of pedestrian and bicycle paths connects to a 46-mile recreational path.

Songdo Landmark City, Districts 6 & 8, is a comprehensive 1500-acre multi-use new city master plan along the sea. The vision reduces vehicular dependency while weaving together communities, parks, open-space, pedestrian and bikeway circulation with green corridors.

Songdo Landmark City, Districts 6 & 8, is a comprehensive 1500-acre multi-use new city master plan along the sea. The vision reduces vehicular dependency while weaving together communities, parks, open-space, pedestrian and bikeway circulation with green corridors.

In collaboration with the New Jersey 9/11 memorial designers Jessica Jamroz and Frederic Schwartz, a rise of earth was created sliced by the memorial walls oriented toward the Trade Center Tower site from Liberty State Park. Trees were used as framing elements underscored through an entry tree bosque juxtaposing the monumental memorial walls.

In collaboration with the New Jersey 9/11 memorial designers Jessica Jamroz and Frederic Schwartz, a rise of earth was created sliced by the memorial walls oriented toward the Trade Center Tower site from Liberty State Park. Trees were used as framing elements underscored through an entry tree bosque juxtaposing the monumental memorial walls.

Sheltered within the Hoboken 9/11 Living Memorial tree grove, a previous Arnold Associates design, this quiet memorial provides a tangible remembrance of the 56 Hoboken citizen victims of the September 11 attacks. In collaboration with Demetri Sarantitis architect, this design aligns the Living Memorial trees and World Trade Center site with silently standing glass pillars as sentinels within layered with landscape.

Working with limited structural loads, an intensive 4-acre roof design was created over the Statehouse Parking Garage. Special design of soils for reduced weight were created and placed to permit sustained growth of shade tree groves in this downtown roof park space adjacent to the statehouse.

Eight acres of extensive roof gardens with underlying landscaped terraces down to the street landscape make up this 3 million SF mixed-use commercial, residential, office and hotel complex designed by John Portman and Associates.

An international ideas competition for the revisioning the Mall around the Washington Monument, Arcs of Shade was one of six finalist designs to be recognized. The proposal pays homage to the formal L'Enfant and McMillan Plan visions while modernizing uses, reforesting around the monument providing shade with formal and informal spaces for various activities such as sitting, talking, jogging, eating, walking and laying about. Water steps extend the Lincoln Reflecting Pool up toward the monument encouraging aeration and cycling of the Reflecting Pool water.

Arnold Associates was one of four invited designers to improve visitor circulation and security protection of of the Washington Monument. Preserving the prairie lawn around the memorial, a low "Ha-Ha" wall was nestled around the monument within the landscape integrated with pedestrian walks. Collaborating with Tsao and McKnown Architects, a below ground visitor center reduced the visual impact but maintained connecting monument views through oculus skylights.