When it came to the landscape for their newly remodeled home, the Gardner’s wanted something that would fit both the arts & crafts style of the home and their busy family life. G. Brown Design, Inc. worked with the homeowners to create a master plan, in keeping with the period style of the home and the owner’s needs. The plan proposed redesigning the front yard to incorporate a low stacked stone retaining wall with columns and light fixtures to tie into the architecture of the home. A new entry walk was created, enlarging the size of the driveway and providing wide staggered terraces for a more inviting approach, in keeping with the arts & crafts movement. Another important element in keeping with this particular architectural style is the selection of planting material. Lower growing and horizontal branching plantings maintain the lines of the home, while colorful mixed border perennial beds offer a historically accurate planting scheme.
G. Brown Design, Inc. prepared a landscape plan and paving details for a multi-use JPI real estate development. The retail side of the building faces a busy street lined with businesses. The paving design with its subtle arch patterns guides customers to the shop doors. Trees in pockets near the building entrances provide shady places for people to gather and sit. The residential side of the building faces a quiet, one-way street from which residents drive into the parking garage and enter their homes. Softscape and green spaces are the focus here. Grassy lawns under spreading trees scale down the surrounding urban environment to a comfortable human level.
The Vanleeuwen residence is an eclectic Tudor-style cottage in Holladay. The property is unique in its location next to Cottonwood Creek and in its prior owner’s improvements, including a lagoon shaped pool. The new owner’s eclectic tastes were reflected in their large collection of art and sculpture, and they wanted a landscape design that incorporated the site, pool, Tudor cottage, and their collections all in a cohesive design that fit their budget and tastes. G. Brown Design, Inc. worked with the architect making improvements to the building and expanding the garage, to design a series of unique outdoor spaces including a cabana, private Zen garden, breakfast patio, dining and entertaining space and an entrance courtyard.
G Brown Design worked closely with the City of Logan and it’s residents through a public involvement process to design an entry feature and landscape sculpture. The feature uses form and material to reflect the local character entering the Logan Community. The curvilinear bands of steel weaving through the landscape can be interpreted differently by each individual. To some it may appear as a silhouette of a mountain backdrop, to others a meandering stream, or a bending head of barley. Stone walls use the same stone found on prominent local buildings. Columnar lombardy poplars represent a tree species frequently found in the local landscape. Native or adaptive plantings provide seasonal color , fit with the existing meadow context, conserve water, and minimize maintenance.
“Making Tracks,” a landscape sculpture designed by G Brown Design, Inc. Site and Landscape Architects and artist Cliff Garten, was chosen by the Park City Municpal Corporation for the city’s Olympic Legacy Entryway in a national design competition. The form of the 3’ wide, 3/4” thick stainless steel ribbon weaving through the landscape may be interpreted as a variety ofPark City images – a ski trail in the snow, a mountain bike track, a luge and bobsled run, or a roll of movie film. Berms in the form of moguls complement the undulating steel ribbon, which culminates in a 17-foot high arch framing the distant view of Park City. A hole through arch in the shape of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games symbol is aligned to focus a beam of sun onto a plaque below the arch at noon each February 8, commemorating the opening day of the Olympics.
The Wyner Stokes residence is located on a 150 acre parcel of land in North Scituate, Rhode Island, which was a working farm for more than 200 years. Gerry Brown, as principal designer assisted in the restoration of the existing historical elements and the design of compatible new features,
including a silo. Working carefully he was able to implement a working horse farm on the site while retaining the historical significance and natural scenery of the landscape. Open fields, paddocks, roadways, bridle paths, and new structures including an indoor riding arena, horse stable, barn, swimming pool and tennis courts were all developed into a seamless master plan that enhances the site’s inherent beauty.
G Brown Design, in collaboration with Prior and Associates Architects, worked with local and national Veterans Administrations, and the Utah Division of Facilities Construction & Management to guide the cemetery master planning and Phase One expansion work for the existing 30 acre Utah State Veterans Cemetery. The project includes additional interment areas, columbarium niches, memorial walls and scattering garden, a realigned entry with new entry walls, grave survey monuments and burial section markers, redesigned maintenance facilities, irrigation renovations, and landscape improvements. G Brown Design worked with the United States and State of Utah Departments of Veterans Affairs for over 18 months to facilitate grant funding and gain approval from the State Cemetery Grant Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. G Brown Design also performed site analysis, compiled the required Site Characteristics Report, coordinated with the Environmental Consultant for the Environmental Assessment, directed the master plan update, and developed construction documents for the site and cemetery design for the Phase 1 Expansion,.
G Brown Design, Inc. has been working with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, in Southern California, to complete the master plans on four major cemeteries; the Moravian Cemetery, Tribal Cemetery and the St. Mary’s Old and St. Mary’s New Catholic Cemeteries. The historic cemetery sites once possessed an intimate feeling, characterized by long-standing tribal burial traditions. Over the years, however the growth of the cemeteries was beginning to cause some problems; the plot layouts and allocations were inconsistent and haphazard; access, parking, and facilities were nonexistent or inadequate, and landscaping was minimal. The GBD team worked closely with the tribe to understand their cultural heritage and traditions and to develop four cemetery master plans to address the tribe’s growing need for improved and expanded burial facilities. This included analysis of the existing burial ground conditions and the important task of locating unmarked gravesites for relocation into cemetery boundaries. These plans specifically include detailed site analyses and illustrative master plans. The four Master Plans also included schematic designs for gravesite layouts, facility locations, plantings, and other site improvements..
The Massachusetts National Cemetery has become a standard, used by the Department of Veterans Affairs for cemetery development. The master plan and maintenance standards for the 750-acre site employed a design concept based on the imagery of the New England orchard landscape. Jerry Brown was project manager for the first six phases of development over a twenty-year time period. The palette of design elements and landscape types included open fields, meadows, orchards, stands of native trees, fieldstone walls, and winding roads, which complimented the existing site conditions and symbolized the desired imagery and history of the site. The landscape architects prepared construction documents and supervised construction for six phases based on the Master Plan Documents.
