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April is World Landscape Architecture Month! Let's celebrate the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocate for the profession, and inspire the next generation of landscape architects. Today, we are celebrating the work of landscape architects in impacting communities. MKSK created the Community Impact Studio to advance the public good by fostering meaningful opportunities to facilitate, participate, and champion MKSK volunteerism, to address unmet community needs and positively impact the lives of under-served populations. Landscape architecture shapes communities by creating inclusive, sustainable, and aesthetically enriching spaces, while supporting environmental health, fostering social connection, and encouraging outdoor activity. Featured Projects: Winthrop Family Historical Garden, Chicago, Illinois Garrison Elementary School, Washington, DC Walnut Hills Five Points, Cincinnati, Ohio Martha’s table & The Commons at Stanton Square, Washington, DC Miracle Field, New Albany, Ohio American Society of Landscape Architects #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI #WLAM2025 #ThisIsLandscapeArchitecture #CommunityImpact #MKSKCommunityImpactStudio

MKSK, Louisville | Studio Works Royal Oak Centennial Commons fills a much-needed void as the only urban open space for the community as a social and cultural hub. The park operates as ecological infrastructure with significant tree canopy and green stormwater management. A “Glade” within the urban core, this space now serves as a daily destination for residents and a venue for large community events. A centrally located event lawn offers space for people to gather comfortably while also serving as the location for the city’s ice rink during the winter months. A perimeter pathway meanders through familiar and native landscapes like the Oak Grove and the community gardens, and it reveals history of the area’s indigenous people and the evolution of the City of Royal Oak. Client: City of Royal Oak, MI Partners: Fleis & VandenBrink (Civil Engineer), Deleon & Primmer Architecture Workshop (Architect) Awards: KYASLA 2020 AWARDS Design Non-Constructed #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Studio #Lousville #Design 

MKSK Celebrates Earth Day!    MKSK continues our commitment to protecting our planet and promoting sustainability. Together we plan and design a world in which we all want to live. #MKSK #EarthDay2025 #CelebratingEarth #MKSKCommunityImpact #Environment #Biodiversity #Green #HealthyPlanet #Resiliency #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI  

April is World Landscape Architecture Month! Let's celebrate the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocate for the profession, and inspire the next generation of landscape architects. Today, we are celebrating the work of landscape architects in using sustainable practices to create serene destinations. Sustainability plays a vital role in shaping environmentally responsible and resilient spaces. By integrating eco-friendly materials, native vegetation, efficient water management, and renewable energy sources, designers minimize environmental impact while enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem health, reducing carbon footprints and conserving resources to create healthier, more livable communities. Featured Projects: Diamond Teague Park, Washington, DC- Design allows for closer connection with water resources for residents, Native Wetland restoration, which provides habitat for wildlife, and repurposes reclaimed sinker logs as benches. Southwest Regional Library, Louisville, Kentucky- LEED Gold: Views from within the building provide opportunities for patrons and library staff to view gardens wildlife, and natural sunlight, as well as other performative sustainable design elements. Grandview Yard, Grandview Heights, Ohio- LEED ND Silver:Sustainable site development, smart location and linkage, neighborhood master planning and design, materials selection, energy efficiency, and green building infrastructure and buildings Grange Insurance Audubon Center, Columbus, Ohio- LEED Gold: Permeable pavement to increase site infiltration, rain gardens and bioswales to reduce pollutants and manage stormwater runoff, reflective materials to reduce the heat island effect and minimize light trespassing, and site specific plant material to increase habitat and promote biodiversity. Dorrian Green, Columbus, Ohio: Green roof garden which replaces a 600+ car surface lot, and themed gardens to provide educational insight into such items as the butterfly life cycle, native host plants, the science of pollination, and how one can create their own similar garden at home.  Cunz Hall, Columbus, Ohio- LEED Silver: Outdoor learning spaces, a green roof, and a rain garden utilizing native plant species, with concrete rills at the building’s forecourt to collect and distribute rainwater from the building’s canopy downspouts into the plant beds that line the front entry plaza for irrigation. Parsons Avenue Streetscape, Columbus, Ohio: Uses Bioretention cells to detain and treat street and sidewalk stormwater run-off, with highly permeable soils to minimize their depth from the sidewalk elevation and suspended sidewalk pavement and a continuous soil treeway at the back of the roadway curbing. American Society of Landscape Architects #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI #WLAM2025 #ThisIsLandscapeArchitecture #Sustainability #SustainableDesign

MKSK, Louisville | Studio Works Imagination Alley constructed in 2021, is a 6,000 sf pocket park in the heart of the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. The site, characterized by overgrown vegetation and once a hotspot for less-than-desired activity over recent years, has now been transformed to become a neighborhood green space for community events and public gatherings. With goals derived from a robust and creative community outreach process, the design team was given clear key objectives and metrics to help create a successful transformation of the derelict park, including providing better lighting, more art, additional seating, lush green spaces, and developing flexible event spaces. The finished pocket park has become the jewel of the neighborhood with residents and visitors from adjacent businesses utilizing the park daily during lunches and afternoons as well as community members holding impromptu barbecues and movie nights in the alley. Neighbors and community members alike are celebrating this new addition with its public art installations, pop up markets, and enjoying the natural beauty of cultivated landscapes and green walls within this newly established urban oasis. Client: 3CDC Partners: Burgess & Niple (Civil Engineer) KLH Engineers (Electrical Engineer) Awards: KYASLA 2022 Award of Merit - Design Constructed #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Studio #Lousville #Design

April is World Landscape Architecture Month! Let's celebrate the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocate for the profession, and inspire the next generation of landscape architects. Today, we are celebrating the work of landscape architects in creating vibrant and complete streets. Streetscapes are integral in shaping the identity of a city or neighborhood, promoting pedestrian safety, and fostering social interaction. A well-designed streetscape can encourage sustainable transportation, improve air quality, and create a sense of place that reflects the cultural and historical context of its surroundings. Featured Projects: Michael B. Coleman Government Center, Columbus, Ohio Short North Streetscape Improvements, Columbus, Ohio Lexington Streetscape Implementation, Lexington, Kentucky District Wharf Promenade, Washington, DC Scioto Peninsula Public and Private Streetscapes, Columbus, Ohio High Street Historic Dublin Streetscape, Dublin, Ohio Columbia Street Corridor Enhancement, Fort Wayne, Indiana Re-State State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana Creative Campus Streetscape, Columbus, Ohio Bedrock 0.0 Streetscape Plan, Cleveland, Ohio American Society of Landscape Architects #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI #WLAM2025 #ThisIsLandscapeArchitecture #Streetscapes #GreatStreets #CompleteStreets #StreetsAsPublicPlaces

MKSK is Hiring! We are hiring a Mid-Career Landscape Architect in our Columbus studio. To join our dynamic team, visit our website at mkskstudios.com/careers for more information on the open position, and to submit your resume and portfolio. #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI #Careers #Hiring #WereHiring #Columbus

April is World Landscape Architecture Month! Let's celebrate the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocate for the profession, and inspire the next generation of landscape architects. Today, we are celebrating the work of landscape architects in re-inventing greenspaces. By blending sustainability, creativity, and functionality to create vibrant, accessible environments, landscape architects can re-invent greenspaces into areas that enhance urban life and restore the natural elements that give a space its distinct character. Featured Projects: Lawrenceburg Civic Park, Lawrenceburg, Indiana (Photo Credit: Krider Photography) Van Aken District, Shaker Heights, Ohio Summit Park, Blue Ash, Ohio OSU Wexner Medical Center Gerbig Snell Weisheimer Children’s Park, Columbus, OH Riverside Crossing, Dublin, Ohio Rose Run Corridor Vision Plan & Implementation, New Albany, Ohio Dorrian Green, Columbus, Ohio American Society of Landscape Architects #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI #WLAM2025 #ThisIsLandscapeArchitecture #ReinventingGreenspaces

This Saturday, MKSK Principal Landscape Architect, Brett Weidl, will participate in a panel and an informational workshop titled "City of Evanston, Environmental Equity Investigation (EEI) Update” at the Evanston, IL Environmental Justice Conservation Series. Brett will provide a brief overview and update of the scope and progress of the investigation in Evanston. Check out her workshop at Loder Hall on the Northwestern University Campus tomorrow from 1:00-3:00 p.m. CST following the Keynote speaker. For more details and to receive updates regarding the event, visit https://lnkd.in/dnexGYzi #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #ResilientDesign #SustainableDesign #ClimateReady #MKSKLAB #ASLA #ULI #APA #AIA #EvanstonIL #EnvironmentalJustice #EnvironmentalEquity #Northwestern

April is World Landscape Architecture Month! Let's celebrate the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocate for the profession, and inspire the next generation of landscape architects. Today, we are celebrating the work of landscape architects in creating innovative and inclusive playscapes. Innovative and inclusive playspaces are designed to foster creativity, accessibility, and social interaction for everyone. These spaces blend nature, imaginative play, and universal design principles, ensuring that everyone, regardless of age or ability, can engage, explore, and connect. Featured Projects: Great Parks Sharon Centre Playground, Sharonville, Ohio Dorrian Green, Columbus, Ohio Rose Run Corridor Vision Plan & Implementation, New Albany, Ohio Summit Park, Blue Ash, Ohio Unity Park, Greenville, South Carolina Waterfront PlayPort, Louisville, Kentucky American Society of Landscape Architects #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI #WLAM2025 #ThisIsLandscapeArchitecture #ActivatedPlayscapes