Langan Landscape Architecture + Planning

Sense of Place

Langan Landscape Architects and Planners understand what makes places work. We shape effective design solutions that range from 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,” which makes every site unique and memorable. This places us at the forefront of the rebirth of our cities and aging downtowns, guiding their revitalization as destinations where people live, work, shop and play.

Langan Landscape Architecture + Planning Services:

Site Feasibility and Yield Studies

  • High Performance Site Planning
  • Land Development Approvals
  • Brownfield Redevelopment
  • Waterfront Design
  • Park and Playground Design
  • Complete Streets, Streetscape Design and Traffic Calming
  • Landscape Planting and Irrigation Design
  • Landscape Restoration Design
  • Contract Documents
  • Rooftop Garden Design
  • Site Lighting Design
  • Water Feature Design
  • Construction Administration and Inspection
  • Expert Testimony and Zoning Reviews
  • Community Outreach

Rutgers University – 15 Washington Street

OVERVIEW
Langan provided surveying, civil engineering, landscape architecture, and asbestos abatement services for the renovation of an existing 21-story building, built in 1930, into student housing, a welcome center, auditorium, store with café, and other administrative uses. This facility complements the Rutgers Newark Campus, establishing its northeastern edge along Washington Street.

Location
Newark, NJ

Client
Rutgers University

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Newman Architects


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


Rutgers University – Center for Integrative Proteomics Research

OVERVIEW
Langan provided site/civil engineering design, permitting services, and landscape architecture for the Rutgers University Center for Integrative Proteomics Research (CIPR) on the Busch Campus. The CIPR project is intended to centralize the University’s research and library facilities for protein studies. Langan’s design responsibilities include site layout, grading and drainage, stormwater management, utility layout, soil erosion measures for steep slopes, sitework construction details, and construction specifications.

Location
Piscataway, NJ

Client
Rutgers University

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture

Architect
NK Architects


University of Connecticut – Gateway at Fine Arts

OVERVIEW
As part of a strategic public/private partnership among the town of Storrs, the adjacent Storrs Center Development, and the university, UCONN saw a need for a new southern Gateway at this newly activated intersection, connecting students, faculty, residents, and visitors in a pedestrian-oriented downtown. Langan’s team of landscape architects and site/civil engineers worked closely with university landscape architects to design a new streetscape for UCONN’s Fine Arts Campus. The site serves as a pedestrian connection between the Nafe Katter Theatre, home to the Connecticut Repertory Theatre, the Von der Mehden Recital Hall, and the School of Fine Arts.

Location
Mansfield, CT

Client
University of Connecticut

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial


University of Connecticut – Innovation Partnership Building

OVERVIEW
The 115,000 SF Innovation Partnership Building is the first building within UConn's Technology Park campus, developed to connect leading industries with advanced research facilities and foster innovative solutions for real-world problems. We provided survey, geotechnical and civil engineering, and landscape architecture for this project. Our site design minimized impacts to the primarily wooded lot and reduced the views of parking along the roadway through grading and landscape design. Additionally, our stormwater management design implemented a low-impact development approach that seeks to protect and minimize disruption to the existing natural resources and environmentally sensitive areas. The project was submitted for LEED Silver certification.
AWARDS
2019 ENR New England Best Projects, Higher Education/Research, Award of Merit
2018 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Location
Storrs, CT

Client
University of Connecticut

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying

Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


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


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


University of Pennsylvania – President’s Garden

OVERVIEW
Langan provided detailed grading and stormwater management for the restoration of garden walkways and adjacent bed and lawn panels for the University President’s House. The design garden complements the residence, the historic Eisenlohr Hall, (c.1912) by Horace Trumbauer. To preserve the garden structure, Langan worked with the University’s campus landscape architect to restore cohesive walkway paving patterns, setting grades and alignment to preserve historic site features and trees. To complete this project, Langan provided survey and detailed landscape architecture services.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
University of Pennsylvania

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture

Architect
University of Pennsylvania


St. John’s University – St. Augustine Plaza

OVERVIEW
Langan developed the design for a new 8,000-SF plaza in front of Saint Augustine Hall, a significant social hub on the Queens campus. Langan also designed the site lighting for the plaza and low-level bollard lighting in the dining areas. Langan developed the architectural lighting, accentuating the limestone and schist building facade and illuminated the large bronze university emblem hanging above the entrance to St. Augustine Hall. Project challenges included existing utility issues, the preservation of specimen trees during construction and work phasing to allow the building entrance to remain operational during construction.

Location
Queens, NY

Client
St. John's University

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Perkins Eastman Architects


St. John’s University – St. Vincent’s Stairs

OVERVIEW
Langan developed the design for a new monumental staircase connecting the campus academic core with a growing residential section of the campus. Langan designed the stairs as a series of three generous ‘trays’ to allow for social interaction and ‘chance meetings’ between students, faculty and administrators as they move between the different areas of the campus and to the communal dining hall at the foot of the staircase. Langan also designed the site lighting for the stair project and provided full site/civil, geotechnical and structural design for the walls and terraces. Langan continues to develop and implement the master plan with paving, lighting, roadway and landscape campus improvements.

Location
Queens, NY

Client
St. John's University

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Perkins Eastman Architects


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


Race Street Pier

OVERVIEW
Race Street Pier is one of the first public spaces to be designed and built by the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation as part of the new Civic Vision for the Central Delaware Riverfront. Pier 11 was identified as an early action park site and the project was faced with an aggressive schedule, as required by the City.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Clients
Delaware River Waterfront Corporation
James Corner Field Operations

Services
Waterfront & Marine
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Traditional Surveying

Strategic Partners
CHPlanning
VJ Associates


Hudson Greene (77 Hudson Street)

OVERVIEW
Langan provided a full range of design and engineering services for the construction of two 48-story residential towers at the core of Jersey City's Colgate Waterfront Redevelopment Area. This joint venture development features retail space, 900 luxury residential units, and a rooftop garden on top of a 10-story parking deck.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Clients
K. Hovnanian Companies
Equity Residential Properties

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Environmental
Traffic & Transportation
Landscape Architecture

Architect
CetraRuddy


Bedford Square

OVERVIEW
Langan provided site development consulting services for Bedford Square, located in the heart of downtown Westport. The project included the complete renovation and restoration of the Bedford Mansion—previously home to a YMCA—and Central Firehouse, partial demolition of the buildings, rehabilitation of historical components, and the addition of retail and residential space. Our landscape architects worked within diverse architectural styles in downtown Westport to create a pedestrian landscape and new place for gathering unique to the downtown district, one that fits the historical and contemporary character of this quintessential New England town established in 1835. Our landscape team designed streetscapes, plazas, alleys, site architecture, lighting, and plantings—all on a rooftop.
AWARDS
2020 AIA Connecticut, Design Awards – Revitalization of Downtown Historic Fabric, Citation
2020 ASLA Connecticut, Landscape Architectural Design – Municipal | Public Spaces Category, Merit Award
2018 Building Design + Construction, Reconstruction Awards – Silver Award Winner
2017 Connecticut Building Congress, TEAM Awards – Major Renovation, First Place
2017 Westport Historic District Commission, Historic Preservation Award – Rehabilitation

Location
Westport, CT

Client
Charter Realty

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental
Traffic & Transportation
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial
Terrestrial Scanning/BIM


Tweed Courthouse/City Hall

OVERVIEW
As part of the restoration program for Tweed Courthouse, Langan provided full design drawings, which included bluestone paver, granite paver and cobblestone walks, custom-made ornamental picket fences and gates, bollard-and-chain railings, historic-style lighting, and perimeter landscaped spaces. Other design services provided by Langan included structural design of building exterior area-way elements, handicapped access ramps, related retaining walls, underground vault roof slabs, and other building peripheral elements. Langan also provided inspection and consulting services to ensure that the highest standards were met for the surface finishes and site furnishings.

Location
New York, NY

Client
John G. Waite Associates

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil


Selected Projects