Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is more than just designing beautiful outdoor spaces. It is about creating sustainable, inspirational, and enduring environments—all with people and purpose in mind. Our landscape architects play an integral role in leading complex projects through the design process from the very beginning, collaborating throughout the project’s progression to elevate the final product and successfully meet our clients’ goals.

Our approach to landscape architecture is rooted in collaboration, context-sensitivity, placemaking and connecting people. We work closely with our clients to understand their values, goals, and aspirations, and to integrate sustainable objectives into every project. From urban parks and streetscapes to campus master plans and waterfront developments, VHB landscape architects have the skills and creativity to transform any space into a vibrant and functional landscape. We use innovative and sustainable design practices that minimize environmental impact and maximize social and economic benefits, creating places that not only look beautiful but contribute to the health and well-being of our clients and communities.

Featured Capabilities

Master Planning

Our landscape architects lead integrated teams to holistically approach community master planning, streetscape design, placemaking and green infrastructure. Together we plan and design national and local parks, trail networks, waterfront sites, streetscapes, recreational facilities, urban environments, residential communities, and healthcare, college, and corporate campuses.
Placemaking

Placemaking is creatively reimagining public spaces that are influenced by the ideas and feedback of the people who use them. Real placemaking comes from community participation and collaboration, is visionary and human-scaled, inclusive, adaptable, and context-specific. At its best, placemaking can be a transformative process both for public spaces and community relationships.
Community Outreach & Visioning

VHB creates community outreach plans that meet the people where they are, to cultivate deep connections between projects and the communities they serve. We help develop a clear vision, engage in constructive dialogue, and actively seek buy-in to reach consensus so communities can provide feedback and foster collective ownership and shared responsibility for the outcome.
Data-Informed & Technology-Enabled Design

VHB landscape architects utilize a variety of 3D modeling software to conceptualize, design, and visualize innovative solutions for our clients’ projects. Our capabilities in digital communication include the production of massing studies, solar modeling for light and shadow studies, digital twin models, and flythroughs.