Denver Justice Center Campus and Dale Tooley Plaza, Downtown Denver

studioINSITE worked with multiple teams to plan and design a campus that features a new courthouse, detention center, post office/parking garage, and the "4th Room," the distinctive Dale Tooley Plaza. The project includes two publicly-accessible rooftop gardens and is an extensive year-round urban botanical garden displaying xeric and native plantings. The Justice Center is now Denver's public showcase for sustainability and environmental stewardship. The project is one of the most comprehensive green design, management, and construction application in the city's history.

Semper Fidelis Park and Chapel, National Museum of the U.S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia

studioINSITE was planner and landscape architect for the 10-acre Semper Fidelis Memorial Park at the National Museum of the U.S. Marine Corps. The park and chapel grounds are designed as a place for reflection and inspiration, serving as a memory of the fallen or missing comrades and shipmates as expressed in the Marines' motto, Semper Fidelis ("Always Faithful"). It is intended to convey the naval character of the corps through bold, geometric and formal landscape gestures. The informal braiding of paths, memorial walls and rallying points evoke the emotional qualities of honor, courage, and commitment.

Clayton Lane at Cherry Creek North, Denver

Once the site of a 650-car asphalt parking lot for a 1954 Sears store, 9.5-acre Clayton Lane has been transformed into a lively urban block featuring upscale retail shops, a five-star hotel, build-to-suit office space, and residential lofts. Serving as the primary gateway and link between the Cherry Creek North District and the mall, Clayton Lane is a pedestrian-oriented street with wide sidewalks, comfortable outdoor courtyards, water features, seasonal banners, custom light fixtures, benches, landscaping and special paving patterns. studioINSITE was urban designer and landscape architect for this vibrant and high-profile retail center.

University of Colorado at Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo.

studioINSITE's staff has unprecedented experience with urban planning and landscape architecture at the University of Colorado Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus. The firm designed innovative and flexible outdoor rooms and integrated new construction with existing buildings across this century-old campus, which was originally the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. Projects have included micro-master plans, site design for education and health care facilities, a sculptural promenade streetscape, and elegant healing, research and education quadrangles. Much attention has been paid to the creation of sustainable landscapes with sensitivity to the urban campus's native prairie ecosystem.

Creighton University Campus, Downtown Omaha, Nebraska

studioINSITE's planning and design experience at Creighton University dates back to 2003, when the firm began leading the university's campus master plan. Since then, studioINSITE has completed the award-winning master plan and an update, the redevelopment of the historic California Street Mall, entry monuments and micro-master plans and site designs for education, student life, residence, recreation, parking and sports facilities across the campus. The firm has incorporated native, adaptive plantings for water efficient landscaping and weather-appropriate material specifications for all of its built projects on the Creighton campus. This labor of love has resulted in a campus in a garden.