Gravity Field wins American Society of Landscape Architects NY Award

Terrain Work is excited to announce that Gravity Field has won an American Society of Landscape Architects New York Merit award for 2025! We are delighted to receive two awards, including Gravity Field, from a record number of submissions this year!   

Gravity Field demonstrates the robust adaptation of plants in the most inhospitable conditions. Plants are extraordinarily adaptive and essential to life. 171 sunflowers are grown upside-down and curve up towards the sun, defying gravity and exhibiting phototropic, gravitropic, and heliotropic properties.  While the future is uncertain, Gravity Field sees optimism in the ability of plants, and all organisms, to adapt and thrive in the face of climate change. To learn more about Gravity Field click here.

Terrain Work selected for the Walton Family Foundation's Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program

A selection committee of industry experts and foundation representatives has chosen Terrain Work to be part of the Walton Family Foundation's Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. “By partnering with visionary architects, landscape architects and urban designers, we aim to support ambitious projects that leave a lasting impact on the region’s future,” said Meredith Bergstrom, senior program officer at the Walton Family Foundation. “The Design Excellence Program is committed to creating welcoming public spaces that reflect local culture and foster a sense of belonging.” To learn more about the Walton Family Foundation's Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program click here.

POP Rocks Featured in Fast Company

POP Rocks is featured in an article published by Fast Company highlighting the creation and success of the pedestrian-centric development in the Mission Rock neighborhood in San Francisco!  POP Rocks, a universally accessible public art installation, is one of the street room installations that activates this new public corridor.  The mixed use neighborhood was developed through a partnership between the San Francisco Giants, the Port of San Francisco, and developer Tishman Speyer. Read the Fast Company Article here!

Happy 2025 From Terrain Work!

From all of us at Terrain Work we wish you a Happy New Year in 2025!  We look forward to what the new year brings with all of our friends, collaborators, and clients.

Gravity Field Wins Azure 2023 Award

Terrain Work is honored to receive the Azure Magazine 2023 jury award for the best experiential installation for “Gravity Field”! Drawing over 1,000 submissions from around the world, the 2023 Azure Awards edition represents the best in global architecture and design. Collectively, the diverse range of awarded projects exemplify excellence in innovation, aesthetics, creativity, and social and environmental responsibility.

Gravity Field was one of the international winning entries selected for the Jardins de Metis Garden Festival that has been on display at the garden since 2022. Jardins de Metis is the biggest contemporary garden festival in North America with over 60,000 visitors each year.

“Gravity Field” demonstrates the robust adaptability of plants in even the most extreme conditions. A floating cloud of 171 sunflowers transform during the course of the installation. The sunflowers are initially grown upside-down, but curve up toward the sun defying gravity. To learn more about Gravity Field click here.

Terrain Work Makes West Harlem New Home!

Terrain Work has relocated our office to the historic Mink Building located in West Harlem! Our new neighborhood is the Manhattanville Factory District located near Columbia University, City College, and the 125th Street corridor, Harlem’s most important commercial and cultural zone. We made the move to West Harlem after working the past several years on a series of projects in the neighborhood with Janus Property Group to bring publicly accessible open spaces to the Manhatanville Factory District. We are thrilled to make West Harlem our new home in such a vibrant and culturally rich neighborhood!

HAPPY 2023 FROM TERRAIN WORK!

From all of us at Terrain Work we wish you a happy and healthy New Year in 2023!  We look forward to what the new year brings with all of our friends, collaborators, and clients.

Terrain Work Wins Public Art Commission in San Francisco

Terrain Work is delighted to announce that our public art installation, POP Rocks ,has been selected as a permanent art installation in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco. The Mission Rock development is a joint venture between the San Francisco Giants and Tishman Speyer. The competition for Mission Rock Street Rooms provided an opportunity to shape the identity and experience of San Francisco’s historic waterfront.

“Erupting from the sidewalk, POP Rocks, creates a dynamic sandstone sculpture that invites people to interact with it.  The sandstone highlights the unique geological rock formations found in the San Francisco Bay Area while integrating splashes of orange and yellow reminiscent of the native California poppy wildflowers. While developing our artwork, POP Rocks, it was important for our ideas to be embedded in the enduring history of the San Francisco Bay Area landscape while creating a place where the whole community could delight in the unexpected.” - Theodore Hoerr, Founding Principal Terrain Work. To learn more abut POP Rocks click here.

Terrain Work Creating New Civic Spaces at Capitol Crossing in Washington D.C.

Terrain Work is excited to reveal the landscape design for Capitol Crossing Center Block in Washington D.C. The landscapes of the Capitol Crossing Center Block each express the unique qualities of the geological transect found in the region beginning with Appalachian Plateau, cutting through the Blue Ridge and Piedmont regions, and ending at the Coastal Plains that surround Washington D.C. These outdoor spaces create a new civic realm in a mixed-use development above Interstate 395 with retail, a residential tower, and boutique hotel designed by Ennead Architects. For more about this project click here.

TERRAIN WORK COOKING UP LANDSCAPE FOR TAYSTEE SITE IN HARLEM

Terrain Work is working with Janus Property Group and LevenBetts architects to create a new landscape for the old Taystee Bakery complex in Harlem, New York. The Taystee development will establish a new connection from 125th Street to West 126th Street to become one of the defining landscapes in the Manhattanville Factory District.

The Janus Property Company has built a reputation for creativity, integrity and success, becoming a leader in transforming New York’s obsolete buildings and underutilized land into newly active and lively neighborhoods. Taystee is key anchor development in Janus’ one million square foot master-planned vision for the Factory District that will be a delicious addition to the community. Terrain Work is delighted to collaborate with Janus and their design team on this transformative project for Harlem.

Terrain Work Celebrates Earth Day with 'Broadway Bouquet'

Terrain Work  unveiled 'Broadway Bouquet' on April 21, 2018 for the NYC Car Free Earth Day Event sponsored by the City of New York and NYC DOT.  'Broadway Bouquet' was a 40' feet long by 8' high temporary public art installation that was displayed at the intersection of Broadway and 24th Street in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. To see Photos and Video of 'Broadway Bouquet' Click Here.

The ‘Broadway Bouquet’ takes one of the most familiar and portable landscapes found on countless street corners in Manhattan and turns it into a larger than life experience, which is quintessentially New York.  The artwork captures the scale-bending qualities of the city while giving people a glimpse of how introducing plants and urban ecology in civic spaces can pique the imagination. 

The art installation was a featured piece of the NYC/DOT Car Free Earth Day event that closed thirty blocks of Broadway from Times Square to Union Square to vehicular traffic, creating a temporary pedestrian space for people to explore for the day.  A variety of environmental programming  were introduced by city agencies and nonprofit organizations along Broadway to promote activism and education surrounding climate change, sustainability and rethinking how we use our city streets.    To see our Interview about 'Broadway Bouquet' on Good Morning America Click Here.