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Landmark Design Inc. is a small, talented, woman-owned planning and design firm with expertise in community planning, landscape architecture, urban design and site planning. The firm was founded in 1987 and has been providing excellence in service to their clients throughout the Intermountain-West ever since.
Landmark Design has developed a reputation for creative planning and design solutions that maximize opportunities and address constraints in a practical, no nonsense manner. In all of their projects, they initiate and maintain strong communication channels between team members, clients, community interest groups and government agencies, resulting in plans and designs that are well embraced.
Park Renovation Landmark Design prepared the site layout and construction documents for the seven-acre Washington Square Park surrounding the historic Salt Lake city and county building including walks, ornamental cast iron fountains, furnishings, lighting, landscape and irrigation. Work involved the entire block with four major street frontages.
Expertise: The master site development plan was based on historic research and a reconstruction of the original plan prepared by the landscape architect. The project included preparation of construction documents and a maintenance and operations manual for Salt Lake City.
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The Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District Demonstration Gardens are located on two-and-a-half-acres at the District Administration Headquarters in West Jordan, Utah. Landmark Design completed design and construction documents and an overall master plan and redesign concept for the Administration Building and Maintenance and Operations facility located on the same site. Documents for the first phase of the Demonstration Garden as well as the existing landscape renovations were completed in September 2000. After a public open house and dedication, the gardens were opened to the public.
Expertise: Phase one of the garden includes six demonstration residential landscapes organized along a "neighborhood" street, directly illustrating a variety of opportunities for water conservation, i.e. native and water conserving plant materials, planting methods and implementation techniques that reduce water use, and water conserving irrigation materials, methods and applications. The street features are individually metered gardens, each themed to capture the interest and needs of valley residents. Landmark Design provided a complete planning and design service including a variety of paving types, such as ornamental structures, a structural framework for the signing system, landscape architecture and irrigation design, as well as providing input to the public information systems for the gardens. Phase two was completed in the fall of 2001.
Interstate 215 comprises 8.7 miles of urban highway in the metropolitan Salt Lake Valley. Landmark Design prepared planning and construction documents and provided a thorough analysis and mapping of the existing site conditions, including soils, vegetation, slope and hydrology through diverse environmental conditions (riparian environments, bottomlands and benches, urban and semi-urban conditions). Their plan was based on a commitment to native landscapes. They incorporate revegetation and land reclamation methods including the use of water-conserving native and hardy plant materials and water-harvesting planting techniques. They also utilize project preparation techniques that reduce site disturbances, competition and the need for additional erosion control.
Expertise: Landmark Design is known for exceptional communication between team members, clients, community interest groups and government agencies. Those talents were crucial on the I-215 project as their design and planning staff completed 404 permit documents and coordination with the Corps of Engineers and the Division of Wildlife Resources in the design and construction of a small water body. The project team conducted public meetings and gathered public input on the landscape design, prepared construction documents, conducted a monitoring and evaluation study of the revegetation project and prepared a maintenance manual for the project. A Monitoring and Evaluation Report and Maintenance Manuals were delivered to UDOT in December of 1993.
The Memory Grove reconstruction project re-establishes a traditional park area damaged by a 1999 tornado, and creates a more environmentally appropriate park in the process. Phase one of the reconstruction was recently completed.
Expertise: Landmark is known for water conservation and the water-saving approach is demonstrated by the west hillside at Memory Grove, a steep and difficult to manage lawn. The hillside and large segments of the rest of the park have been converted into water-conserving gardens, and will eventually include interpretive signs and other features to educate the public about the possibilities of drought-tolerant plant materials and design.
Other elements of the project include the removal of trees damaged by the tornado, stabilization of eroded and denuded steep slopes surrounding the park, introduction of coordinated system of lighting and park furnishings, development of a connected and fully- accessible system of pathways and re-establishment of formal tree rows along both sides of Canyon Road. Construction was completed in November 2002.
Principals: Jan Striefel, FASLA, RLA, AICP (principal and president) Mark Vlasic, ASLA, AICP (principal and vice president urban design) Hugh Holt, ASLA (principal and vice president landscape architecture)
Employees: Two certified planners, five registered landscape architects, one graduate landscape designer/planner, and various support personnel.
Specialty: Regional and historic landscape design, urban design, collaboration with artists and architects, multi-disciplinary team planning and project management and public involvement and facilitation.
Primary design software: AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Pagemaker, and the Microsoft Office Suite.
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