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Commercial Row Commons Opens!

August 2023
Key community leaders celebrate the opening of Atlanta’s newest pocket park. Read more in the Saporta Report.

Fabrication of Sylvatica’s Art Walk Light Spheres Underway

May 2022
Fabrication of Sylvatica’s custom light fixtures for the Art Walk is underway. These three foot diameter light spheres will be hung on a catenary system over the linear pedestrian corridor, providing colorful lighting and projected patterning on to the pavement.

Anne Cox Chambers Garden Atlanta Botanical Garden

April 2022
Sylvatica’s design of the Anne Cox Chambers Garden – a focal point central to the Garden, is under construction and featured in this month’s edition of Clippings. Read more.

Commercial Row Commons Nearing Completion

April 2022
Sylvatica’s Commercial Row Commons Plaza and Park near the intersection of 10th St and Peachtree St will activate a key block in central Midtown. Developed in collaboration with Midtown Alliance, a reconfigured Peachtree Place is providing a new civic and retail plaza, parklet, public art, streetscape and intersection improvements.

Key part of Atlanta’s Midtown Art Walk is ready to break ground

Article in Axios announcing construction progress of the new Art Walk, starting with the key section between 10th and 11th street! Read more.

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President's Award from ASLA Georgia goes to Sylvatica Studio for Fernbank Wildwoods

Uncommon award presented at ASLA Zone 7 & 8 Awards gala.

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Mercy Park Wins 2018 ULI Award of Excellence

Innovative development in Chamblee, Georgia cited by the Urban Land Institute for Excellence in Civic/Institutional Development.

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Fernbank WildWoods featured in Architectural Record August issue

Architectural Record magazine’s August issue features WildWoods, along with other landscape architecture projects. Read more.

Midtown MARTA Station Plaza Enhancements Celebration

Sylvatica designed the Midtown MARTA Station plaza activation for the Midtown Alliance and MARTA. The work has just been completed and includes raised elements, pavement paint patterning, furniture and performance space, at the ground plane level of the Midtown MARTA Station and the GA Tech Trolley stop. The work was designed in collaboration with the vertical surface mural paintings by Andrew Catanese.
Join Midtown Alliance and MARTA leadership on the decked-out south plaza at the Midtown station to celebrate the completion of new enhancements. Take in the sights of the vivid mural on the station facade and try out the playful outdoor furniture on the plaza. Monday, July 23 – 10am

Two Sylvatica projects selected as ULI Awards of Excellence Finalists

Mercy Park and Armour Yards are finalists for the ULI’s upcoming awards celebration.

Three Sylvatica projects win Georgia AIA Merit Awards!

Fernbank Museum Wildwoods, One Museum Place, and Three Alliance Center projects are recognized with Merit Awards by the Georgia American Institute of Architects.

Fernbank WildWoods Featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine

“A Forest in the City in a Forest” by Jonathan Lerner gives a detailed overview of Sylvatica Studio’s Fernbank projects, including the Master Plan and Fernbank WildWoods, in Landscape Architecture Magazine. Read more.

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Fernbank WildWoods Project Recognized with ASLA Southeast Honor Award

Sylvatica Studio’s design for Fernbank Museum of Natural History WildWoods wins Honor Award at the ASLA Southeast Conference.

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Susan Stainback Speaks at the ASLA Annual Meeting

Urban Waterfronts: Integrating Landscape Architecture and Ecology in an era of climate change. The impacts of climate change are dramatic and everywhere. For city dwellers, they are most tangible and visible within the context of our changing urban water systems. This session will explore, through a series of compelling case studies, the role ecologists and Landscape Architects can play in helping to design our urban waterfronts for a dynamic new future.

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Sylvatica Studio projects and Susan Stainback featured in ASLA article on collaboration between Landscape Architects and Ecologists

Landscape architecture and ecological restoration are really different disciplines, but increasingly these fields are working together in fascinating ways. In a session at the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) conference in Madison, Wisconsin, Rutgers ecologist Steven Handel organized a group of landscape architects and restoration ecologists to discuss why collaboration is vital. In a mutual lovefest, the ecologists explained how landscape architects are important to work with because they communicate well with clients and communities.