August 31, 2016 – Shannon Nichol and Piet Oudolf led tours of the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park. Shannon's tour offered insight into the history and making of the garden as well as the inspiration for the Lurie Garden's iconic design elements.
Read MoreAugust 31, 2016 –The Lurie Garden hosted a design team panel discussion at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion Stage in Millennium Park. Panelists included (from left to right) Laura Ekasetya, Lurie Garden Head Horticulturist; Piet Ouldolf of Hummelo, the Netherlands; Shannon Nichol of GGN; Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farms; and moderator Scott Stewart, Ph.D., Acting Executive Director, Millennium Park Foundation and Director, Lurie Garden.
"The Lurie Garden team is excited to begin implementing the next evolutions of the garden based on this week's conversations with Piet Oudolf and Shannon Nichol." - Scott Stewart, Ph.D., Acting Executive Director, Millennium Park Foundation and Director, Lurie Garden
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July 11, 2016 - In today’s article “Frost Bank Tower Design Signals a 21st Century San Antonio,” the Rivard Report announced GGN’s role as landscape architect. Reporter Iris Dimmick explains that “as dramatic as the tower promises to be . . . the most transformative elements of the site plan are closer to the ground and on the street level surrounding the tower.”
“. . .The landscape design softens the lines between casual and commercial uses of the sidewalks and promenade. ’It embraces the landscape,’ GGN Founding Principal Kathryn Gustafson said. ‘Landscape architecture is everything that doesn’t have a roof on it. That’s a huge part of your life.’ ”
The 400,000 sq. ft. tower is designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli for Weston Urban and its development partner KDC.
Read MoreJune 3, 2016 - As a key GGN design team member for the New Burke Museum, Rebecca Fuchs’ keen interest in native plants resulted in a six-week internship at Oxbow Farm & Conversation Center this spring, growing native plants from seed for the New Burke project. Oxbow’s native plant nursery aims to grow the highest quality native plants, using ecologically sound practices and local plant material, and to become a facility fostering research and education that contributes to the restoration, landscape, agriculture, and nursery-growing community.
Read MoreOctober 22, 2015 - This evening Yakima Central Plaza received a Citation Award from AIA Central Washington. Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is working closely on this project with Graham Baba Architects and Magnusson Klemencic Associates.
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