A Year in Review at Land Collective
The Ironworks at Pencoyd Landing, winner of the Architects Newspaper Best Of Design Award in the Urban Design category
As 2021 comes to a close, we’d like to take the opportunity to express our gratitude for our collaborators and supporters, as well as share some of the good that’s happened in our studio this year:
- We’ve opened three projects to the public: The National World War I Memorial and Franklin Park, both in Washington D.C., and Pencoyd Landing in Bala Cynwyd, PA
- We’ve gained four new studio members: Kate, Christine, Martin, and Lindsey
- Our team has engaged in 14 presentations, including The National Building Museum Spotlight on Design Series, The New York Botanical Garden Landscape Design Portfolio Lecture Series, and two sessions at the American Society of Landscape Architect’s Conference on Landscape Architecture
- Our studio space in Philadelphia has opened back up, allowing for joyful, in-person collaboration
- We’ve launched Landscape Field Notes from a Post-Pandemic Future, an Instagram magazine (@post_pandemic_landscape), and diversified our Instagram presence by adding an account for Principal David Rubin, featuring David’s design aspirations, travels and garden tool collection @dr_landcollective, to complement our studio account, @landcollective – don’t forget to follow!
- We celebrated our studio’s growing legacy of work at our nation’s capital with our first all-studio trip to Washington D.C.
- David’s antique garden tool collection has grown by (at least!) 50 artifacts (we like teasing him about this!)
- And to end the year on an even higher note, we’re pleased to announce that the Ironworks at Pencoyd Landing, designed in collaboration with client Penn Group and Coscia Moos Architecture, has won an Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award, receiving the top prize in the Urban Design category. We’re honored to be included on this list of renowned designers.
Excerpts on project vision taken from the Revitalization Plan for the Former Oaktree Site, including quotes from Far Eastside residents
Amongst our most passionate projects this year, we are especially proud of our Revitalization Plan for the Former Oaktree Site in the Far Eastside of Indianapolis undertaken on behalf of the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development. Completed in November, this endeavor empowered citizenry to participate in and steer the future vision for their neighborhood. Beginning in 2019, Land Collective, in collaboration with Meticulous Design + Architecture, Engaging Solutions, Herd Strategies, Green Street, Policy Analytics, and Shrewsbury Engineering, embarked on the planning process to create a community-driven, implementation-minded vision to inform future development for the 19-acre former apartment complex that had suffered years of disinvestment and dilapidation. Dialogue and repeat engagement with current Far Eastside residents and key stakeholders were essential to the process, involving virtual public meetings and Community Conversations conducted in Spanish, French, and English, to ensure the plan reflected and prioritized the needs of the existing community. The resulting plan combines stakeholder input with market analysis to guide the City of Indianapolis in the development of the Oaktree site that is of and for the Far Eastside community.