Langan Experience – Landscape Architecture

Our Landscape Architects + Planners have the training to connect people with places we build. We believe that every place we design should be an expression of attitudes, responding to social, economic, and environmental conditions. At Langan, we relentlessly pursue improvements in the quality of our work and strive to know our clients and their needs better than any other firm in our field.

Langan merges many disciplines under the umbrella of comprehensive design, engineering, and environmental services. We offer clients a powerful, collaborative approach to the challenges of land development. Our Landscape Architects + Planners provide synergy to this equation and develop design solutions that are guided by patterns found on the site, leading to more sustainable and cost-effective projects.

We understand what makes places work, shaping effective design solutions for a variety of uses from the regional or city scale down to the most intimate courtyards and garden spaces. In every project we strive to identify and enhance the “sense of place” that makes every site unique and memorable. Langan’s Landscape Architects + Planners are at the forefront of the rebirth of our cities and aging downtowns, giving them a second lease on life as places to live, work, shop, and play.

 

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

OVERVIEW
Langan is providing its full services to this premier cancer center  treatment facility in New Jersey. As part of the design team, a "green" philosophy driven by patient experience, site aesthetics, and adjacent woodland views greatly influenced planning and development.

Location
Bernards Township, NJ

Client
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Environmental
Earthquake/Seismic
Traditional Surveying

Architect
EwingCole

Strategic Partner
Barr & Barr


Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer & Data Center

OVERVIEW
Langan provided engineering, site design, and land development services to convert an existing multi-story office building into a state-of-the-art cancer care center. The overall site design allows patients to enter the building at the upper and lower levels while providing improved vehicle and pedestrian circulation patterns. Landscaped walkways provide patient access to the surrounding woodlands and expand recreational opportunities. Lush entry gardens and courtyards help create a soothing and therapeutic environment. This project is LEED Gold certified.
AWARDS
2018 ACEC New York Engineering Excellence: Platinum Award

Location
Middletown, NJ

Client
Memorial Sloan-Kettering

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental
Natural Resources & Permitting
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Perkins + Will


MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper – Rooftop Garden

OVERVIEW
Langan provided comprehensive planning, design and construction phase services for a 5,000-SF rooftop healing garden that will serve as a respite from the clinics and testing facilities. Custom designed planting beds will minimize rooftop loading while providing a healthy growing environment for the plants.  A thoughtfully designed drainage system will conduct water to roof drains below the paving and planting areas. The project includes a significant amount of sustainable design elements and features the use and interpretation of plants that have been used in the fight against cancer.
AWARDS
USGBC NJ Emerald Award – Urban Green Project

Location
Camden, NJ

Client
Cooper University Hospital

Service
Landscape Architecture


Rutgers University – Livingston Campus Mall

OVERVIEW
The Livingston Campus Mall project redesigned a 1.5-acre promenade through the center of this Rutgers campus. The mall serves as the primary pedestrian connection for residence, classroom, library and dining facilities. The west end of the mall was integrated with the new Livingston Campus Student Center. To develop a unified design, Langan worked with key campus staff to conceptualize a design theme of small plazas connected by the cohesive paving patterns of proposed walkways.
AWARDS
New Jersey ASLA Award

Location
Piscataway, NJ

Client
Rutgers University

Services
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial
Site/Civil


Blue Back Square

OVERVIEW
This urban mixed-use redevelopment is the centerpiece of two large city blocks, providing retail, office, residential and municipal space within the existing town center. It includes the regeneration of a brownfield site, expansion of civic facilities and public open-space, a mix of large and small format retail shops, two municipal parking garages, restaurants, professional and medical offices, a health club, and residential condominiums and apartments.

Location
West Hartford, CT

Client
Blue Back Square Development

Services
Site/Civil
Traffic & Transportation
Environmental
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying


Queens Plaza – Dutch Kills Green

OVERVIEW
Langan provided multi-disciplinary services in the areas of urban design, streetscape, site/civil, environmental and traffic engineering and NEPA review services for a bicycle and pedestrian improvement project at Queens Plaza. The plaza is the gateway connecting the Queensboro Bridge to Long Island City and is a highly traveled area. Langan prepared site engineering drawings that consisted of grading, drainage, utility, builders pavement plans, roadway profiles, signing, striping, traffic signal, and maintenance and protection of traffic (MPT). At the start of the project, Langan worked with the multi-disciplinary design team to develop the concept of ‘the blue thread’, a system of interconnected urban wetlands that would filter runoff water from the Queensboro Bridge and the elevated railway structures.

Location
Long Island City, NY

Clients
NYC Economic Development Corporation
NYC Department of City Planning

Services
Site/Civil
Environmental
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying

Strategic Partners
Wallace, Roberts & Todd
Margie Ruddick Landscape


Blue Back Square – Library & Town Park

OVERVIEW
Blue Back Square is an extension of the pedestrian heart of downtown West Hartford, Connecticut. This one-million-SF project included the regeneration of a brownfield site, expansion of civic facilities and public open-space, a mix of large and small format retail shops, two municipal parking garages, restaurants, professional and medical offices, a health club, residential condominiums and apartments the renovation and expansion of the West Hartford Library and the creation of a town park. The new streetscape was designed with granite curbs, unit pavers, concrete banding, decorative bollards and street lighting that mesh with the character of the existing downtown. Langan provided full site/civil, landscape design, traffic consulting, environmental and geotechnical engineering services to facilitate the new development.

Location
West Hartford, CT

Client
Blue Back Square Development

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental
Surveying/Geospatial


St. Joseph’s University – Retail, Parking, and Streetscape

OVERVIEW
Langan developed a context-sensitive campus streetscape design for a new campus bookstore, cafe, and restaurant that will front a new parking structure on campus. The site incorporated intensive stormwater management planning to comply with evolving Philadelphia Water Department regulations. The urban streetscape incorporates large planting trenches below the paving to provide a sustainable rooting area for street trees.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
O'Donnell & Naccarato

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture


Seger Park Playground

OVERVIEW
The design of the Seger Park Playground started as a community-led design initiative that evolved into a public/ private partnership between the Friends of Seger Park and the City of Philadelphia. Langan worked with the Department of Public Property and the private, non-profit Friends group to help leverage investments that resulted in a 70% increase in funding for improvements in this historic and beloved public space. Langan also helped facilitate public meetings to gather input, promote funding opportunities, and build a consensus for the park restoration plans. The design preserved historic park elements such as the large London Plane trees and wrought-iron fence while incorporating age-specific playground elements and site features that encourage activity and exploration.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
Friends of Seger Park Playground City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Property

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture


Fair Lawn Promenade

OVERVIEW
A brownfield site, once owned by Kodak on Route 208, was in need of environmental cleanup and redevelopment. Langan provided landscape architecture services for the mixed-use development designed on 10 acres of unusable land. The main entrance to the site from Route 208 is designed as a gateway featuring low decorative knee walls adorned with decorative lighting and accent plantings. The promenade and centerpiece of the site boasts a 30-foot-wide by 256-foot-long area providing two small patio spaces and a permeable paver pathway in a park-like setting, complete with decorative benches and lighting that winds through a cleverly designed landscape.

Location
Fair Lawn, NJ

Client
Garden Commercial Properties

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil

Architect
Appel Design Group


Selected Projects