Studio Journal 

Construction is complete at Curtis Park in Salem! This neighborhood park offers a vibrant playground with inclusive and imaginative play, a new turf field, and picnic pavilion.

We are excited to share that the Weston Town Green Planting Report is now live! This has been a wonderful collaboration with the Town and the Tree Advisory Group to preserve the historic town green. "Spurred into action by significant tree losses on our iconic New England Town Green, our town’s tree committee engaged Crowley Cottrell to design a succession planting plan. The team at CCLA helped us delineate, prioritize, and integrate historical elements, current usage pattern

In November, we joined the City of Somerville in celebrating the Ribbon Cutting of the renovated, expanded Somerville Junction Park! This site began as a place of connection in 1870 when the Boston & Lowell Railroad extended to the Fitchburg Railroad at Somerville Junction. Today it is transformed into a vibrant park along the Community Path, connecting neighbors to commuters and urban explorers. Park visitors can rest in the shade of 90 newly planted native trees, picnic in

A great turn out at the Mattahunt Woods Urban Wild opening ceremony last week! We are so honored to have collaborated with the City of Boston and the incredible community on this wonderful project.

Davol Park in Taunton, MA had its official opening last week! Leah Broder and John Carter worked on schematic design for this project two years ago with GCG Associates, Inc. The desi gn transformed a seldom used baseball field into a recreational area that includes 6 pickleball courts, 2 bocce courts, 2 shuffleboard courts, horseshoes, corn hole, a walking path, seating area and exercise equipment, as well as a dog park across the street. The sport courts are all oriented nor

It was a beautiful day for the Ribbon Cutting at Ken Kelly Park! We are honored to have been a part of the amazing team that made this park possible.

As construction comes to a close at Ken Kelly Park in Somerville, it's the perfect time to take a look back at all the hard work that brought us to this moment. This presentation, shared at a community meeting in the fall of 2023, illustrates a few of the first steps in the process of engaging the local community and designing the park. Our team began by analyzing the priorities and concerns of the community, as well as conducting a thorough analysis of the site and context.

In June, Naomi attended Fiesta en la Calle, the annual block party in Salem's Point neighborhood organized by the North Shore CDC. This year's celebrations included the ribbon cutting for the Munecas Sin Rosto (Faceless Dolls) art project and the official opening of Palmer Cove Park. Though the sky was a bit gloomy, the celebration filled the park with color and life! We are honored to have had a chance to collaborate with the wonderful community in The Point and the many or

The design of a public park is an intensely collaborative process involving a host of community groups and city or town departments, in short, all the people who are experts on the landscape and its context. Few projects represent this collaborative effort as well as Palmer Cove Park in Salem's Point neighborhood. In 2018 we began work at the park with a master plan informed by months of community engagement. This blossomed into a multi-phase project involving over a dozen co

We’re excited to share new photos of the Faceless Doll sculptures coming to life at Palmer Cove Park! These vibrant artworks, inspired by traditional Dominican Muñecas Limé, celebrate the rich heritage of Salem’s Dominican community. As landscape architects, we were proud to help place these sculptures as part of our ongoing partnership with the City of Salem and North Shore CDC on the park’s evolution. Special thanks to North Shore CDC, the Punto Urban Art Museum, and all th