Ross/Fowler is a comprehensive landscape architectural, planning, and urban design firm located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Originally established in 1972, the firm has completed a wide variety of award-winning landscape architectural projects with emphasis upon environment and landscape development. The firm has in-depth experience in master planning, parks, green infrastructure, campus, neighborhood, urban, and regional projects. Ross/Fowler is a leader in creative and responsible landscape architectural design, and we have a reputation for design quality, competent professional service, and efficient project management.
Number of Principals: 2
Number of Licensed LA's: 2
Number of Total Employees: 5


Ed Johnson Memorial

 
The Ed Johnson Memorial is a contemplative outdoor plaza adjacent to the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee that acknowledges the lynching of Ed Johnson in 1906. The goal of the memorial is to promote racial healing and reconciliation in the community. The team of Jerome Meadows, Artist-Sculptor, and Ross/Fowler Landscape Architecture were selected to design the memorial following a national competition.

Market Square
The Market Square Redevelopment Public Space Improvements engage three blocks of downtown Knoxville. The improvements seek to unify the public space of Market Square, Market Street and Krutch Park as well as to extend Krutch Park eastward to Gay Street. The improvements include new paving, planting, lighting, fountains, lawns, street furniture, signage, historic markers, and a stage element.

Main Terrain Art Park
The Main Terrain Art Park is a unique gathering space in downtown Chattanooga that combines the major goals of demonstrating sustainable stormwater practices while providing opportunities for fitness activities centered on original pieces of interactive art. This park was developed as a public/private partnership of the City of Chattanooga, the Lyndhurst Foundation and Allied Arts of Chattanooga in the redeveloping Southside area. In addition to interactive art, park features include seating, planting, fitness areas, open lawns, a bike shelter, and sustainable plantings. The large lawn areas of the park are designed as stormwater infiltration basins. Rain that falls on the park is directed to the infiltration basins which have under drain systems that are connected to the city's harvested rainwater system. In turn, the harvested rainwater is filtered, treated, and then used to irrigate the landscape. Environmental art is located throughout the park. Ross/Fowler collaborated with Thomas Sayre to locate the interactive art pieces which reference the city's bridge heritage while adding a unique fitness element. The park's play equipment is specially designed to appeal to adults as well as children while being complementary to the art elements.

World's Fair Park
Ross/Fowler was the primary designer of the transformation of the former site of the 1982 World's Fair into the World's Fair Park. The firm provided all landscape architectural and architectural services as well as project management for a multi-disciplinary team of special consultants. The 19-acre urban park contains a large multipurpose Festival Lawn, a Performance Lawn accommodating 6,000 people in an outdoor concert setting, a lake, cascades, and a large interactive fountain. Pedestrian circulation throughout the park is accessible and designed to accommodate the large numbers of participants for festival events. The park features native and adaptive species plantings as well as seasonal color beds. Other park features include a comprehensive wayfinding and environmental graphics system and a sculptural remembrance of S. Rachmanioff who played his last concert nearby.

Volunteer Boulevard Streetscape Improvements
The Volunteer Blvd. Campus Beautification improvements project is a three-phased linear streetscape designed to create a series of functional and aesthetic improvements to the campus. The goal of the project is to remove on street parallel parking and replace the impervious pavement with green bio-retention storm water infrastructure. Features also include adaptive street tree and shrub plantings, irrigation, WIFI, pedestrian and vehicular lighting, banners, pedestrian seating areas, pedestrian circulation routes and site furniture.

Lakeshore Park Master Plan and Phase 1A Improvements
Situated along the Tennessee River waterfront in Knoxville, Tennessee Lakeshore Park is a 178 acre public/private park development managed by Lakeshore Park, Inc.
Primary features of the master plan include the development of hilltop and belvedere overlooks that capitalize on and engage panoramic views of the city of Knoxville and the Great Smoky Mountains, expansion of current park amenities, including pavilions of varying sizes, sports field restrooms, boardwalks and overlooks that engage the river, and an emphasis on accessible site features such as an extensive and accessible trail network and the recently opened Hank Rapp???(C) Universal Playground.
Site proposals include dedicated Farmer's Market space, a Hilltop Orangery and event space, the River Pavilion with seating room for 200+, renovation of the historic Lakeshore Chapel as a special events venue, fishing piers, a canoe/kayak launch, and of multiple sports fields.