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Founded in 1923, MHTN Architects, Inc. is a team of over 75 professionals dedicated to providing comprehensive services for the built environment. They are partners with their clients focusing our solutions on their unique objectives. MHTN?EUR??,,????'???s specialty markets encompass corporate, government, healthcare mixed-use, education, housing and student union design.
The landscape architecture studio at MHTN architects has completed a diverse body of work in various parts of the country. Their expertise allows them to provide a full range of services including: landscape architecture (including irrigation and landscape planting design), master planning, land use planning, urban design site analysis, site planning, park, recreation, trail planning and design, water conservative design, k-12 and secondary school design, corporate campus planning and commercial, retail and industrial landscape architecture.
This project successfully transformed one block of a busy four-lane street in the Salt Lake City?EUR??,,????'???s downtown urban core into a pedestrian-friendly plaza. The Plaza was constructed above a new underground parking structure and unites two adjacent blocks of the LDS Church?EUR??,,????'???s campus.
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Design Elements: The Plaza?EUR??,,????'???s focus is a lozenge-shaped reflecting pool, which rests at the base of the campus?EUR??,,????'??? historical architectural centerpiece, the Salt Lake Temple, and acts as the campus gathering area.
MHTN designed a raised terrace for use by downtown employees and the public on the south end of the Plaza for outdoor dining, a much-needed outdoor space in downtown Salt Lake. It also provides a backdrop to the historic Brigham Young Monument.
A pedestrian bridge on the north end of the Plaza rises over the parking structure?EUR??,,????'???s vehicular entry and provides a platform to view the Utah State Capitol, Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum and historic Ensign Peak.
On each end of the Plaza, two waterwalls, facing the busy streets, invite the urbanite to seek refuge within the Plaza.
Site Amenities: Flanking lawn panels, sandstone walls and benches provide the millions of annual visitors to this campus a variety of opportunities to relax, contemplate and refresh themselves amidst the surrounding urban din.
The Morinda Corporate Campus International Gardens, provide a set of unified but distinct and memorable garden spaces which are used for employee break areas, training meeting space and for outdoor social gatherings.
The gardens are full of floral bloom color with multiple seasonal plant changes, creating various focal points and year around interest. A pavilion offers outdoor cooking for reception events.
Each major garden area was developed with a distinct character and feeling. This design concept resulted in seven garden areas that include:
Novell?EUR??,,????'???s decision to consolidate two adjacent campuses into one site created an opportunity to reinforce an employee-centered corporate atmosphere, which reflects teamwork and productivity. Using renowned college campuses as a model, MHTN Architects, Inc. helped the client to reinforce their corporate culture with a landscape design that fosters casual interaction and brings employees together in outdoor spaces.
Design Elements: The addition of a new eight-story building and a single-story cafeteria provided impetus to create a central campus courtyard. The cafeteria is a free-standing building centered in the campus which is defined by existing buildings on the west, north and east. This new building defines the south edge of the space to create the "quad" of the campus which features meeting and dining nodes, a bosque of trees to the east and water rapids crossed by a bridge.
A diagonal linear layout of three contiguous water features with plantings on the east/west axis and a courtyard lawn panel are both overlaid by a formal paving grid. This grid consists of intermittent concrete pavers with seating nodes at grid intersections.
The new main campus entry features strong vertical lighting elements focusing on the main office building entry. A loop road connects vehicular and pedestrian circulation from the new campus into the existing campus.
The south east corner of the expanded Salt Palace Convention Center was designed to welcome pedestrians to the Salt Palace. Pedestrians travel over a complex paving pattern, through architectural poured-in-place elements that function as benches, risers, walls and space dividers and finally into a paved forecourt that serves as an extension of a pre-function space inside the building.
Design Elements: The entry courtyard serves as an amphitheater/stage area for mini concerts and presentations as well as an assembly entry space for events. Unit pavers in the courtyard were installed in patterns that define the area by using cobble for pedestrians, finetta for heavy-duty service and a combination of concrete radians and circular bands with cobble pavers in the forecourt plaza.
The streetscape was developed with a combination of concrete paving bounded by the Salt Lake City standard paving pattern. Seating for visitors and public transit is accommodated on architectural concrete planters. Trees ranging from five-inch to seven-inch caliper in size and other plant specimens were pre-purchased for the project by MHTN landscape architects.
A service loading and unloading area required careful concealment with walls, gates and densely planted screens.
The site and landscape design for the corporate campus of Covey Leadership reflects the values of a firm that specializes in personal and corporate training to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Design Elements: Symbolic representation of concepts that were developed by Covey Leadership were incorporated into the site design. These include abstracts of ?EUR??,,????'??personal center,?EUR??,,????'?? ?EUR??,,????'??compass and clock,?EUR??,,????'?? and ?EUR??,,????'??priorities.?EUR??,,????'??
A sculpted sundial superimposed over a grand compass is the focal point of the campus. This water feature embodies Covey's teaching that people need a "personal center." It also reflects the unchanging nature of direction (?EUR??,,????'??compass?EUR??,,????'?? or effectiveness) and the fickle nature of time (?EUR??,,????'??clock?EUR??,,????'?? or efficiency).
The large boulders and small cobble on each step signify the Covey principle taught in the ?EUR??,,????'??large rock/small rock in-a-jar?EUR??,,????'?? concept: that many priorities in our lives can be accommodated. If high priorities (large rocks) are in the jar first, many lower priorities (small rocks) can be fit in around them; however, if large rocks (high priorities) are not first placed in the jar, then they cannot be forced in at a later time.
The sundial's southern plaza provides formal outdoor seating. Four sloped lawn panels provide contrast with amphitheater-type casual seating shaded by trees. Outdoor meeting areas at each compass point are punctuated with small rocks and boulders.
Principals: Lynn A. Jones, AIA, president/CEO Bryce C. Jones, AIA, sr. vice president/president-elect Gregory L. Allen, AIA, vice president Randy C. Boudrero, ASLA, vice president Dennis H. Cecchini, AIA, vice president Kyle S. Taft, AIA, vice president Peter D. Moyes, AIA, vice president Douglas A. Thimm, AIA, vice president Lynn Johnson, CPA, chief financial officer
Total employees: 85 (licensed architects: 32, intern architects: 16, landscape architects: 5)
Primary Design Software: AutoCAD
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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