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Weisman Design Group is a Seattle-based landscape architecture firm that offers a broad range of design and planning services.

05/13/2024

This week’s A4LE Washington Chapter Tour features Hilltop Heritage Elementary in the Renton School District. Featuring a mass timber system, Hilltop Heritage Elementary is a part of the school district’s effort to encourage sustainable construction strategies while providing beneficial learning environments that utilize natural daylight and materials to reduce stress and improve performance. Fora provided the full campus design including structured and nature-based play areas, courtyards, circulation, interpretive signage, and parking. The north side of the school campus is dedicated to play facilities, including a separate outdoor exploration area that includes a woodland trail, natural seating elements with logs and boulders, and native plantings. A courtyard between the north and south classroom wings is designed to enable outdoor learning opportunities and look onto preserved trees and the adjacent existing wetland area.

Project Team:
Client: Renton School District
Architect: Hutteball + Oremus Architecture, Inc.
Landscape Architect: Fora Landscape Architects
Civil: LPD Engineering
Structural: Coughlin Porter Lundeen
Mechanical: Metrix Engineers
Electrical: Hargis Engineers
GC/CM: Cornerstone General Contractors, Inc.

05/03/2024

Spectra Marymoor recently received the 2024 Washington American Society of Landscape Architects (WASLA) Award of Honor in the Residential Design category.

Spectra Marymoor is the first transit-oriented development to emerge from the newly created Marymoor Arts District in Redmond, WA. Located adjacent to the new light rail extension station into Redmond, vibrant existing retail, and great linkages to regional trail systems, the Spectra project serves as a gateway into an increasingly in-demand residential center. Fora designed every inch of the landscape surrounding the building with amenities to enhance the development’s intent as an urban village anchor blurring the line between public and private. Lushly planted courtyards with open air lounges invite residents into the landscape, while the central public promenades encourage community flow and converge at a seating and meeting area with a large sculptural art piece. The design team incorporated multiple community gardens which have promulgated a sense of community with shared stewardship. An early learning center with sensory gardens and interactive playgrounds occupies the site’s southeast corner while garden terraces, vibrantly planted with large trees, and a roof terrace further the reason for families to enthusiastically call this emerging neighborhood home.

Photography Credit: Meghan Montgomery

Client: Quarterra Multifamily Communities
General Contractor: Quarterra Multifamily Builders
Landscape Contractor: Teufel Landscape
Architect: Encore Architects
LA: Fora Landscape Architects
Civil: KPFF
Structural: Carter Quinn Norlin
Interior Designer: Vida Design

04/26/2024

Smokey Point Community Park broke ground recently, and Phase 1 is taking shape with the west plaza concrete formwork in progress. Located adjacent two historical sites of interest – Rex’s Corner and the Smokey Point Café for which the local community is named, the park will serve as a community/civic center and will provide 1.8 acres of recreation to the community, with the overarching vision of creating a community space where concerts, vendor fairs, and opportunities for community events can be held and bring the community together. Phase 1 of the project will provide a community plaza space with sculptural art elements, lighting, stage, exercise track and great lawn, parking, and bathrooms. Phase 2 of the project will provide a shelter and playground.

Owner: City of Arlington, Washington - Government
Project Management: Rock Project Management Services, LLC
LA: Fora Landscape Architects
Civil: Jacobson Consulting Engineers
Architect: Dykeman
Structural: Seattle Structural PS, Inc
MEP: Metrix Engineers
Council Members: Mayor Barb Tolbert, Heather Logan, Don Vanney, Debora Nelson, Michele Blythe, Marilyn Oertle, Jan Schuette, Yvonne Gallardo

04/23/2024

As Earth Day comes to an end (it never really ends for us at Fora if we’re being honest), we’ve been reflecting on all the ways we as landscape architects can be better stewards of the earth. Whether it’s learning how to start conversations with industry partners, assessing our carbon impact, or realigning our values towards climate positive design, we are on it!!
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Pictured above: collages made from repurposed trash collected from our office. When we’re not turning trash into art, we use Ridwell to recycle it.

04/19/2024

Congratulations to all the 2024 WASLA Award winners! Tonight Fora brought home the Honor Award in the Residential Design category for Spectra Marymoor. Big thank you to all the sponsors and Washington Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects (WASLA) for bringing the LA community together for this event.

04/18/2024

Thank you Paul and Liz at Fieldworks Custom Concrete for coming in and sharing your expertise with us about concrete top casting, mixes, formwork, joints, and so much more!

04/06/2024

Field Trip Friday! Fora took a trip to Ember Lynnwood to see its progress today, led by Andy and Leo. Located a few blocks from the Lynnwood City Center Light Rail Station opening in the fall, Ember is a mixed-use residential project that will serve as a cornerstone in the growing City Center area. We toured the park-like roof terrace that includes outdoor lounge spaces nestled in sloped green roof mounded with grasses and a winding path that leads to the CLT amenity lounge and fitness center. A large amenity courtyard, retail patio, sport court and midblock trail connections are provided below.

Clark Barnes
WG Clark Construction
One Trent Development Group

04/02/2024

We are pleased to share that the Fora Team has grown! Our beloved KC Hermsen and Fan Lan have been promoted to Associate and Designer II, respectively, and we thrilled to see their careers progress. We are also excited to announce the addition of two new designers, Isa Lewis and Aleece Mount. So glad to have you on board! To learn more about our team, check out our website at fora.land!

03/28/2024

Envisioned as a multicultural hub and neighborhood asset, the Olympic View K-8 project was informed by a series of community meetings to address potential inequities that may affect a sense of belonging, health, wellbeing and learning. Site goals included creating an outdoor community hub that was park-like in nature and accessible to all ages and generations of families, and continuing the school's strong tradition of gardening and outdoor learning. The school opened last fall in 2023.

Photography Credit: Arthur Ross

McGranahan Architects
Federal Way Public Schools
FORMA Construction
Jacobson Consulting Engineers

03/25/2024

The Costco Issaquah Headquarters Addition is today's DJC Project of the Week. The new office building opened at its 30-acre Issaquah Headquarters last summer. Sited adjacent to the Issaquah Creek Trail, the campus addition provides connections to the network of trails surrounding the campus and embraces its forested surroundings. Pictured is the auditorium with an outdoor terrace, terraced seating and grove that provides a variety of seating opportunities for the campus and views into the wetland and Issaquah Creek.

https://www.djc.com/news/co/12162861.html

Aerial Photo Credit: Anton Benedikt Photography

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Costco
Jackson Dean Construction

03/24/2024

The pre-existing magnolia tree the team designed around at James Baldwin Elementary is now in bloom. James Baldwin ES will be one of the A4LE Spring Bus Tour stops this year, remember to sign up!

NAC
Seattle Public Schools
Association for Learning Environments
Lydig Construction

03/22/2024

The curving forms at the Newport High School courtyard are starting to take shape, carving out spaces for students to sit and socialize as well as planting beds with trees that will provide an overhead canopy. Construction for the Newport High School Addition and Modernization project began in June 2022 and is scheduled to be completed in 2026.

NAC
Bellevue School District
Cornerstone General Contractors, Inc.

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1430 NE 65th Street
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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
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Thursday	8am - 5pm
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Firm Overview

Our passion lies in shaping ideas, giving form to vision, and creating an enduring connection to landscape. Participating in the public and private sectors, the firm consistently produces exciting, innovative projects and satisfied clients. We emphasize connecting our design work to the natural environment. We take pride in our ability to listen to our Client’s goals and objectives and translate them in to a responsive design showing exceptional attention to detail and follow through.

A good measure of the firm’s first rate reputation and ability to consistently provide a superior level of service is the large percentage of Clients who repeatedly use our firm. A great deal of our new work comes to us via referrals and new projects from current satisfied Clients.

While oriented towards quality and innovation, the firm enjoys an excellent record of implementation and cost control. We are realistic and practical about the way we approach projects, and take into account all the factors that make a project successful, including the long-term costs of maintenance and repair, use patterns, safety, and flexibility. In addition to our design and planning capability, we are particularly strong in technical issues and site observation during construction to ensure a well-built project.