2019
Parks & WaterfrontsJones Beach State Park Central Mall
The Central Mall is Jones Beach’s grand entrance and the iconic center of the Park. The original design was a masterpiece of Beaux Arts place-making, but flooding and deterioration over time have worn away the elegance and formality that made it so striking. RHI lead a multi-disciplinary design team to rehabilitate the Central Mall. The design envisions a complete overhaul … Read more »
Streets & Public Places750 North Glebe Road
This 2.79 acre mixed-use development creates a refined, elegant and comfortable living and shopping venue for its residents. Classic architecture is balanced and rich in detail, creating a sense of intimacy and distinctiveness. The landscape design consists of three levels with themes transitioning from traditional gardenesque at the ground level, to more contemporary on the rooftop. From streetscape to pool … Read more »
Historic, Parks & Waterfronts, Streets & Public PlacesHotel Indigo
Located in Old Town Alexandria, the design for the Hotel Indigo courtyard pays homage to the city’s nautical past. Utilizing textures and iconography, including a life size sculpture of a sailor in mid-throw, the design suggests a lively atmosphere that transitions between day and night, public and private. Plantings along the alley soften and screen from neighboring propitiates while clever … Read more »
SecurityAlexandria Police Headquarters
The new Alexandria Police Department complex includes a landscape design marked by sustainable design treatment. The visually stimulating landscape is formed by low impact development strategies including porous paving, native plantings, biofiltration gardens, and rain water harvesting paving for site irrigation. This considerate, conscious design promotes resiliency and contributes to the facility’s LEED Gold rating.
Streets & Public PlacesCapital Gallery
The site, at a busy D.C. intersection, once hosted three office buildings, a collection of retail shops, and a popular Metro station entrance. Through the course of an extensive renovation, RHI took the opportunity to create a vibrant and dynamic plaza providing for a unique and unified green space. The plaza is sculptural with granite seat walls and extensive planting … Read more »
Academic, HistoricThe Madeira School
The master plan for the Madeira School provides a comprehensive vision for site programming, stormwater management, erosion control, and the conservation of historic landscape resources on its campus. A variety of design projects are revitalizing the campus: Oval and Quadrangle landscape restoration, paddock design, greenway tree restoration, The Mary Mae Cottages, and the Dining Hall Student Center.
Historic, SecurityLarge Federal Building
RHI led a multidisciplinary team in the design of landscape and grounds improvements at the prominent federal building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Much of the historic marble curbing was conserved while new paving which reflects the original architect’s design was added. The project included preservation of original trees and refurbishment of the landscape installed in the early 1930’s. … Read more »
HistoricThe Evergreens Cemetery Cultural Landscape Report
A team of historians, arborists, and engineers joined RHI to uncover the history of this prestigious landscape and in doing so, helped the cemetery to chart a path forward to respect the history of the site while looking to the necessities of maintaining the landscape into the future.
Parks & WaterfrontsGeorge Mason Memorial
RHI prepared a site selection study and designed the memorial within Area One of the National Capital Mall in Washington, D.C. to memorialize George Mason. The memorial site provided the opportunity to renovate one of Washington’s historic designed landscapes, the Pansy Garden, near the Jefferson Memorial. The restored garden features plantings reflective of the site’s previous designs which date to … Read more »
AcademicJames Madison University Health and Engineering Facility
Cohesive pedestrian circulation and unique outdoor gathering spaces reinforce the Health and Engineering Facility’s fit within the existing JMU campus and adjacent buildings. The design establishes direct circulation routes with visual and material connections, while creating unique outdoor spaces that are functional, and aesthetically pleasing for student use and enjoyment.
Streets & Public PlacesDC Convention Center Art Walk
A unique reuse of the former convention center site in downtown Washington, D.C., the Art Walk functioned as a multipurpose, temporary installation designed to be a civic amenity and a model for sustainable design. The 10.2-acre site featured a raised plinth with a colorful, open-air arcade displaying changeable art panels; a series of broad rain gardens; public parking for 2,000 … Read more »
Resiliency, Streets & Public PlacesQ Street Green Alley
The project was proposed by residents living next to an alley severely degraded by erosion. The force of four-acres of water channeling through the alley regularly scoured the paving several feet down. RHI worked with the community to develop the Q Street Green Alley in Washington, D.C., now a first-generation green alley which shows how an underutilized public space can … Read more »