Greenbelt, Md. is a New Deal-era planned community conceived and built in the 1930s. At its heart is the Roosevelt Center, the town’s commercial and social core. Once a popular gathering space, it had become dilapidated and little used. BSD consulted 1936 blueprints to combine historic elements from the original design with features that accommodate current uses.
The “Mother and Child” sculpture, created by WPA artist Lenore Thomas, had become obscured by heavy vegetation and damaged by vandalism and weathering. An objects conservator repaired the sculpture and BSD created a new plaza design that restores the strong central axis leading to the sculpture.

East Hills is new and revitalized housing in Pittsburgh. The design team created a core area of shared features at the center of the development to foster a sense of community. Distinctive, residential-scaled buildings frame the expansive, park-like Village Green. A central pavilion is a community gathering place and public transportation hub.
A plaza invites community activities. Ascending bands of concrete and lawn form amphitheater seating at the plaza’s edge. A community garden features a small structure for tool storage and water spigot, standard ground plots and raised planting tables.

BSD provides landscape architectural and planning services for residential settings of all scales, from tiny Georgetown gardens to expansive country estates.
This design includes a tree house (which replicates the back façade of the main house), a pool house with an outdoor bar, expanses of lawn and new perennial plantings.
BSD recently completed a LEED-certified home with rain gardens in lieu of gutters and native woodland plantings instead of traditional lawns.