Pamela Burton & Company

Santa Monica, California
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Archdale Residence; Los Angeles, CA
This project breathes new life into the gardens surrounding a recently renovated mid-century modern home by Richard Neutra. Extant landscape drawings by Garrett Eckbo for the property depict a sensitivity to the sloping topography and existing groves of native Coast Live Oak trees. The designers removed impediments between the house and garden and restored the pools, reflecting pond, and roundel paths. Non-native Eucalyptus were cut down to expose beautiful views of neighboring hillsides as well as a previously obscured view to the swimming pool. Beyond the pool lies a new rose garden and fruit trees. Recognition: 2023 ASLA SoCal Chapter President's Award. Photo Credit: Caitlin Atkinson

UCSD Jacob's Medical Center; San Diego, CA
The landscape at the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center Bed Tower creates a variety of comfortable, therapeutic garden spaces for visitors, patients, and staff members, while maintaining the rustic character related to the canyon-mesa landscape typology. A layered outdoor environment includes broad campus walks, meditative paths, a canyon landscape, a large Olive grove, an event lawn, multiple rooftop terraces, and protected courtyards. Recognition: LEED Gold certification, Engineering News-Record Merit Award, 2017 The Architect's Newspaper Honorable Mention, 2020 ASLA San Diego Chapter Merit Award. See LASN's June 2026 Campus Issue for a full feature on the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center. Photo Credit: Jack Coyier

Logix Headquarters; Valencia, CA

 
Spread across thirteen acres in the Santa Clarita Valley, the Logix Federal Credit Union Headquarters creates a flexible space for the modern workplace. The landscape design utilizes the natural flow of the region's fluvial geographic features as a backdrop for a harmonious landscape. Sustainable design features include wide canopy trees, permeable decomposed granite paving, and a drought and fire-resilient plant palette. The Fitness Walk weaves through gardens and meadows. The Hub, The Perch, and a sunken Sports Meadow provide spaces for gathering and recreation. A bioswale slows stormwater runoff, allows pollutants to settle, and reduces downstream flooding potential. Recognition: 2025 ASLA SoCal Chapter Merit Award, 2023 Los Angeles Business Council Award of Excellence. Photo Credit: Caitlin Atkinson

UC Riverside - The Barn; Riverside, CA
The landscape was designed alongside the renovation and expansion of University of California Riverside's 'Historic Barn' event center. The 2-acre site carves out creative spaces for students to study or relax in a garden environment, shaded by the dappled light of tree canopies above. The east courtyard space is used for outdoor dining that serves the restaurant in the historic barn building. The plant palette recalls the early landscape of native Sycamores and grasses and incorporates a dry boulder swale. Recognition: 2022 Gold Nugget Merit Award, 2019 AIA Orange County Citation Award. Photo Credit: Caitlin Atkinson

Shasta Courthouse; Redding, CA
A cohesive composition of outdoor spaces at the Shasta County Courthouse complements the architecture while supporting the daily functions of the Courts and addressing security requirements. Inspired by Shasta County's agricultural and timber heritage, the design reflects the region's native grasslands and high-elevation forests. A generous entry courtyard of decomposed granite and rows of deciduous trees provide shade in summer and sunlight in winter. Linear bioswales and modular seating offer inviting spaces for visitors and staff to gather and rest. At the southeast corner of the site, an existing grove of mature conifers has been preserved with additional native understory plantings, strengthening the site's connection to the surrounding landscape. Photo Credit: Sean Airhart

LAUSD Shenandoah Elementary School; Los Angeles, CA
Shenandoah Elementary School introduces a series of outdoor environments that support recreation, learning, and student well-being. Features include the outdoor reading room, PE stations, shaded seating areas, and flexible gathering spaces. A meandering "blue river" of cool coating forms the central spine of the campus, weaving through playground striping, planted islands, and an open lawn. ADA-accessible paths connect the play yard to dedicated learning zones such as the Math Garden, Rainbow Garden, and Weather Station. This model campus establishes a new benchmark for Outdoor Learning across LAUSD, demonstrating how thoughtful landscape design enriches the student experience. Recognition: 2025 ASLA SoCal Chapter Merit Award, 2025 Westside Urban Forum Citation Award. Photo Credit: Shane O'Donnell

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Archdale Residence; Los Angeles, CA
This project breathes new life into the gardens surrounding a recently renovated mid-century modern home by Richard Neutra. Extant landscape drawings by Garrett Eckbo for the property depict a sensitivity to the sloping topography and existing groves of native Coast Live Oak trees. The designers removed impediments between the house and garden and restored the pools, reflecting pond, and roundel paths. Non-native Eucalyptus were cut down to expose beautiful views of neighboring hillsides as well as a previously obscured view to the swimming pool. Beyond the pool lies a new rose garden and fruit trees. Recognition: 2023 ASLA SoCal Chapter President's Award. Photo Credit: Caitlin Atkinson

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UCSD Jacob's Medical Center; San Diego, CA
The landscape at the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center Bed Tower creates a variety of comfortable, therapeutic garden spaces for visitors, patients, and staff members, while maintaining the rustic character related to the canyon-mesa landscape typology. A layered outdoor environment includes broad campus walks, meditative paths, a canyon landscape, a large Olive grove, an event lawn, multiple rooftop terraces, and protected courtyards. Recognition: LEED Gold certification, Engineering News-Record Merit Award, 2017 The Architect's Newspaper Honorable Mention, 2020 ASLA San Diego Chapter Merit Award. See LASN's June 2026 Campus Issue for a full feature on the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center. Photo Credit: Jack Coyier

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Logix Headquarters; Valencia, CA
Spread across thirteen acres in the Santa Clarita Valley, the Logix Federal Credit Union Headquarters creates a flexible space for the modern workplace. The landscape design utilizes the natural flow of the region's fluvial geographic features as a backdrop for a harmonious landscape. Sustainable design features include wide canopy trees, permeable decomposed granite paving, and a drought and fire-resilient plant palette. The Fitness Walk weaves through gardens and meadows. The Hub, The Perch, and a sunken Sports Meadow provide spaces for gathering and recreation. A bioswale slows stormwater runoff, allows pollutants to settle, and reduces downstream flooding potential. Recognition: 2025 ASLA SoCal Chapter Merit Award, 2023 Los Angeles Business Council Award of Excellence. Photo Credit: Caitlin Atkinson

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UC Riverside - The Barn; Riverside, CA
The landscape was designed alongside the renovation and expansion of University of California Riverside's 'Historic Barn' event center. The 2-acre site carves out creative spaces for students to study or relax in a garden environment, shaded by the dappled light of tree canopies above. The east courtyard space is used for outdoor dining that serves the restaurant in the historic barn building. The plant palette recalls the early landscape of native Sycamores and grasses and incorporates a dry boulder swale. Recognition: 2022 Gold Nugget Merit Award, 2019 AIA Orange County Citation Award. Photo Credit: Caitlin Atkinson

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Shasta Courthouse; Redding, CA
A cohesive composition of outdoor spaces at the Shasta County Courthouse complements the architecture while supporting the daily functions of the Courts and addressing security requirements. Inspired by Shasta County's agricultural and timber heritage, the design reflects the region's native grasslands and high-elevation forests. A generous entry courtyard of decomposed granite and rows of deciduous trees provide shade in summer and sunlight in winter. Linear bioswales and modular seating offer inviting spaces for visitors and staff to gather and rest. At the southeast corner of the site, an existing grove of mature conifers has been preserved with additional native understory plantings, strengthening the site's connection to the surrounding landscape. Photo Credit: Sean Airhart

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LAUSD Shenandoah Elementary School; Los Angeles, CA
Shenandoah Elementary School introduces a series of outdoor environments that support recreation, learning, and student well-being. Features include the outdoor reading room, PE stations, shaded seating areas, and flexible gathering spaces. A meandering "blue river" of cool coating forms the central spine of the campus, weaving through playground striping, planted islands, and an open lawn. ADA-accessible paths connect the play yard to dedicated learning zones such as the Math Garden, Rainbow Garden, and Weather Station. This model campus establishes a new benchmark for Outdoor Learning across LAUSD, demonstrating how thoughtful landscape design enriches the student experience. Recognition: 2025 ASLA SoCal Chapter Merit Award, 2025 Westside Urban Forum Citation Award. Photo Credit: Shane O'Donnell

Pamela Burton & Company is a woman-owned landscape architecture design firm based in Santa Monica with over fifty years of experience crafting landscapes for residential, commercial, institutional, and municipal clients around the world. They believe in designing with reverence for nature to create enduring places of beauty, meaning, and connection. Each project begins with a deep respect for place, a study of context and environmental conditions, and an understanding of the client's goals. Design concepts - incorporating narrative, metaphor, materiality, and color - emerge through a process of iterative study in open dialogue with the client. Their thorough design methodology interprets underlying project intentions to realize landscapes that that are felt as much as they are seen. By integrating native plant species, promoting biodiversity, and championing sustainable practices, they shape environments that honor the land while enhancing its resilience.
Employees: PLAs (9), Principals (2); Total (11)

As seen in LASN magazine, August 2026.