Kirk and Kristen Licensure

Congratulations to Associate Kristen Reardon and Landscape Architect Kirk Hiatt on receiving their landscape architecture licensure! We are proud of you!

Starr Whitehouse is proud to contribute the conceptual design for the Amy Erwin Memorial Garden, located in Candler Park in Atlanta, GA. Designed by Jacob Lange, Director of Starr Whitehouse’s Atlanta office, the garden features a drift of native perennials along a woodland edge with a 10 month bloom cycle. A series of granite slabs bisect the drift of plantings and form a seating area and viewing platform where visitors can engage with the perennials and adjacent woodland ravine. Visit the Candler Park Conservancy website for more information, or to make a contribution.

Starr Whitehouse is excited to be working with The Durst Organization, Handel Architects, Langan Engineering, and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC) on one of the most significant waterfront development efforts on the East Coast, Philadelphia’s upcoming Vine Street Development. Starr Whitehouse leads landscape design on the project, which includes a new public park to improve connections to the water, preserve the site’s 17^th century archaeological heritage, and extend DRWC’s recent efforts to create new waterfront public spaces such as Race Street Pier and Cherry Street Pier. The project will also expand on Starr Whitehouse’s previous work developing innovative stormwater and resilience strategies integrated into a rejuvenated public realm for our dense coastal communities.

Stephen Whitehouse chaired a week-long Urban Land Institute Advisory Panel for Downtown Parks and Open Spaces in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which culminated in a presentation of  recommendations to downtown stakeholders on Friday, October 18^th. Hosted by the Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority (FTL/DDA), the panel’s recommendations included expanding the network of open spaces, making climate-adaptive spaces, augmenting management of new park funding, identifying additional resources for acquisitions, and creating a public/private partnership to manage and activate downtown’s public spaces.  FTL/DDA has posted the process and draft recommendations.

Part of the Design Resource Team at this year’s Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute in Cleveland, Starr Whitehouse’s Michael Haggerty collaborated with designers, planners, and policy specialists to advise five affordable housing developers from across the United States on the role of design in making the built environment healthy, inclusive, and resilient.

Starr Whitehouse is excited to be honored at this year’s Battery Gala! As both leaders of teams and as subconsultants, Starr Whitehouse has collaborated with the Battery Conservancy on over a dozen projects. For twenty years, we have watched the park evolve and foster a new community of open space advocates in downtown Manhattan.

Starr Whitehouse has been engaged by NYCEDC to redesign the Brooklyn Bridge Esplanade. Leading a team that includes SHoP Architects and Arup, Starr Whitehouse will be looking at the stretch of waterfront from Peck Slip in the south to Catherine Slip in the north. The new design will employ resilient materials to create connections between the neighborhood and waterfront, establish clear and safe circulation for pedestrians and cyclists, and seamlessly integrate this stretch of shoreline with the greater Esplanade.

Starr Whitehouse’s Michael Haggerty presented the panel “Resiliency Planning through Parks” at the APA National Planning Conference in San Francisco with Alda Chan from NYC Parks and Lindsay Woodson from the Harvard University Ash Center. Michael, Alda, and Lindsay discussed the East Harlem Resiliency Study, a year-long process co-led by Starr Whitehouse and One Architecture + Urbanism that developed solutions for physical and social resiliency in upper Manhattan. More information can be found on the NPC19 website.

Starr Whitehouse is pleased to announce the opening of Starr Whitehouse Atlanta. Led by Partner Jacob Lange, the Atlanta office will further Starr Whitehouse’s mission to make urban space more livable, vibrant, and green by extending our practice to the Southeast. The Atlanta office will continue to work in close cooperation with our New York City office on projects in the New York Metropolitan Area and beyond. Starr Whitehouse Atlanta can be reached via our main office phone number, or by mail at 505 N Angier Ave NE. 3rd Floor, Atlanta, GA 30308.