Last Thursday and Friday I participated in a design charette sponsored by the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast http://www.seacoastwhc.org/home.htm. The expedited design effort explored the feasibility of developing mixed use artist live/work affordable, market rate residential, and market rate office space on an undeveloped site on McDonough Street in Portsmouth. Taking part in the charette [...]
Here is an updated video of the Rain Garden planting. To read more about the rain garden read the previous post from Elizabeth Dudley. To learn more about Ironwood design group, the landscape architecture firm responsible for the design and project facilitation of the Founder's Park Bioretaention Rain Garden visit http://www.fewood.com/ Thanks to all who helped Ironwood [...]
Bright and early Monday morning Phyllis Duffy of Exeter's Department of Public Works assembled an energetic group of graduating seniors from Exeter High School to install a rain garden. With the design and direction of Ironwood, the garden is now in situ to help capture significant flows of rainwater that pour down the hill of Chestnut Street [...]
Recently Ironwood design group collaborated with CMA Engineers of Portsmouth http://www.cmaengineers.com/ in the preparation of a proposal for the Belmont New Hampshire Village Revitalization Project. A significant amount of work goes into preparing a high quality proposal, below are several illustrative graphics that were prepared by Ironwood design group for the proposal. Hopefully the Town's selection [...]
Early spring flowers are in full force! Tulips and Forget- me- nots abound in the perennial garden. In the woodland entry garden come Bleeding Heart with Woodland and Moss Phlox and emerging Fragrant Daphne. Fruit trees such as apples and pears are looking for pollinators not dissuaded by many days of rain!
Work has begun on one of several new parking lots and associated bioretention rain gardens at Bauer Hockey's new corporate headquarters in Stratham. The new parking areas utilize bioretention rain gardens to capture, attenuate, and filter 85% of all stormwater that falls on the new pavement and roadways. Ironwood design group, a landscape architecture, urban design, [...]
On Tuesday evening, Ironwood principal landscape architect Jeff Hyland was joined by Design Team members; Eric Palson and Anthony Mento from SMP Architecture and Kevin Dandrade from TEC Engineering in a presentation to the Laconia Planning Board. The Team has been working since September 2010 on laying the groundwork for sound new smart growth planning [...]
Recently Ironwood design group was shortlisted and interviewed with prime consultant CMA Engineers of Portsmouth for several infrastructure projects in the historic college town of Keene, NH. A significant amouth of work goes into preparing for an interview, below are several illustrative graphics that were prepared by Ironwood design group for the interview. Ironwood design group is a [...]
See the recent TV coverage of State Street on WMUR. Portsmouth State Street Project Complete - Project Economy News Story - WMUR Manchester Ironwood design group is a landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental planning firm based in Exeter, NH http://www.fewood.com/
As work wraps up we thougt it would be fun to highlight a few recent articles that highlight the State Street Reconstruction Project. http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101207/GJNEWS_01/712079879/-1/FosNEWS http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101203/NEWS/12030408/-1/NEWSMAP http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101118/GJNEWS_01/711189670 http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20101110-NEWS-11100384 Ironwood design group was the landscape architecture firm responsible for streetscape design. The firm's principal, Jeffrey Hyland, ASLA was the project manager. http://www.fewood.com/