Selected Landscape Architecture Project List

Coillte Research Centre

Corporate Landscape: Newtown Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow.
Landscape design for new research centre. Design included pedestrian and vehicular/parking layout. Outdoor space with terrace for employee use. Woodland landscape planting theme using naturalized plants with characteristic in form and habit compatible to the native plants. Formerly a construction site, site area was disturbed and the design brief required landscape remediation

Regan Residence

Residential Landscape: Cahir, Co. Tipperary for a private home.
Landscape design included driveway, parking, terrace and path layouts. Outdoor architectural features were designed such as a pergola, water feature, steps and terraces. Formal planting layout with beech hedge and lawn, a rose garden, a Mediterranean and temperate woodland planting themes. Emphasis on use of both evergreen and deciduous plants appropriate to the site conditions and to create a seasonal contrast with low maintenance.

Waterford Health Clinic

Corporate Landscape: Slievekeale Road, Waterford.
Landscape design included parking, footpath and planting bed layout. Former site of a convent, the architecture firm was appointed to restore the structure and convert it into a clinic facility. An inner courtyard with a formal landscape, a water-feature, benches and gravel paths provided a retreat, or “Healing Garden”. The planting theme consisted of flowering shrubs, perennials and ornamental grasses. A planting theme of informal trees and shrubs around the parking area functioned to enhance visually the space and screen the impact of cars.

Maritana Gate Mixed Development

Corporate Landscape: Canada Street, Waterford.
A roof landscape over parking garage accessible to employees and residents. Special needs access was also considered. The roof landscape consisted of a formal contemporary layout of raised beds to facilitate maintenance and appropriate soil depths for plants. Planting beds included a drip irrigation system. Planting themes included shade tolerant plants for woodland of ornamental maples, rhododendron shrubs, evergreen perennials and bamboos landscape with ornamental grasses. Seating and art features as focal elements were proposed to further enhance the spatial experience.

David Flynn Ltd. Office Development

Commercial Landscape: Cork Road, Waterford.
The landscape design included parking and a planting layout. An informal planting theme consisting of predominately low evergreen plants to meet the low maintenance priority of the design brief. Trees provide seasonal and vertical contrast

Housing Development

Residential Landscape: Dunmore Road, Waterford.
The landscape design included a planting layout. Design requirement was to create a buffer landscape and amenity landscape areas. Planting theme was informal with a woodland theme. Emphasis was on seasonal contrast using a mix of evergreen and deciduous plants.