There were many programmatic demands for the project, in just 2 ½ acres of space. We felt if we couldn’t deliver shade, for example, the space would be…

A challenge—which we anticipated—was balancing the port’s mission of a “green and environmentally conscious” space with the community’s vision for the park…

For our team, I think that challenging the traditional definition of a playground was a really difficult obstacle to overcome. Traditional playgrounds are incredibly compact…

As architects, the first issue we had to deal with was already expressed in the competition requirements. The challenge was to propose a relevant answer to a commonly…

The planning of the invitation to tender was the most complex step in this project. The challenge arose not from technical difficulties related to the implementation of…

Upon first visiting the project site, we were faced with the challenge of a project site that not only was an existing campus asphalt parking lot, but a site…

In addition to the challenges we face when building complex landscapes over structure, this project was unique in that we approached the project as an urban…

The most difficult issues faced were the small size of the garden relative to the vast scale of San Francisco and the Bay beyond. In addition to this we needed…

This particular project was dictated by an unusually conceptual client brief. One of the initial and ongoing challenges was to communicate the concept as simply…

For the last 33 years, MESA has had the pleasure of having NorthPark Center as a client. The only challenge they present to us is to outdo the previous year’s designs by keeping…