2016

Last week, RHI Director Faye Harwell hosted the RHI team at an evening garden party.  The environs were lovely and we got to know our newest team members better. Faye, Deana, and Elliot also spoke to their experiences starting and sustaining a practice, the first in a series of founding partners talks commemorating the firm’s 30th anniversary.       … Read more »

On July 12th Fredericksburg City Council unanimously approved the schematic design for the Riverfront Park.  With this approval Rhodeside & Harwell has been authorized to advance the design into construction documentation. The design will create a signature four-acre waterfront park in Fredericksburg’s Historic downtown along the banks of the Rappahannock River. Look here for more about the project: Riverfront Park

Thomas Rainer, ASLA, and Margie Ruddick recently sat down with Landscape Architecture Magazine to discuss their new books focused on planting for ecological diversity in the public realm.  Read the condensed interview here: ‘Wild Times’ by Brad McKee and pick up LAM’s July 2016 issue for the full article.  

Congratulations to Saul Centers, Inc, David M. Schwarz Architects, and the rest of the team on all the hard work put into the 750 N Glebe 4.1 Site Plan design, which culminated with unanimous approval by the Arlington County Board this past Saturday.  It has been a pleasure to be a part of the design team and we are looking … Read more »

RHI’s redesign for a residential courtyard in Alexandria is beginning to take shape.  The proposed design will create a comfortable seating and gathering space with pavers, boulders, and benches in the middle of shrub, perennial, and bulb plantings.  Check out the illustrated plan along with progress photos of the construction process. –New progress photos added.  Pavers, boulders, benches and planting … Read more »

Last Wednesday, one of our Directors, Faye Harwell, was in attendance at Bethesda Terrace for a celebration of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of Landscape Architecture.  Charles Beveridge, a series editor of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project, spoke about Olmsted, sharing insights into his life.  This springtime celebration also launched a partnership with Central Park Conservancy (CPC) and Library … Read more »

After a comprehensive planning process in the spring of 2014, phase 1 of Rhodeside & Harwell’s master plan for Alexandria Country Day School is being installed. A new brick wall with richly layered plantings will create an attractive, lush streetscape. The wall also captures new space in front of the school for students to play and learn. See progress being … Read more »

Congratulations to RHI Principal Thomas Rainer, who was recently awarded an American Horticultural Society (AHS) 2016 Book Award for ‘Planting in a Post-Wild World’.  Thomas and co-author Claudia West received this award from the AHS Book Award Committee for writing style, authority, originality, accuracy, and design quality.  See the release here: AHS 2016 Book Awards    

This week we had a great initial brainstorming session with the Sandy Springs community to generate transformational ideas for the MARTA train station areas! Read the article here: ‘Residents consider mixed-use vision for North Springs, Northridge MARTA stations’ by John Ruch  Image credit: John Ruch   Also in the news, ten big ideas for Sandy Springs’ forthcoming zoning code has received … Read more »