CBA is Hiring!
CBA is hiring a landscape designer with 1-3 years of experience! See our BSLA posting for more information, and please share with your networks.
https://www.bslanow.org/job-board/cba-landscapedesigner-june
New Strategies in Social Placemaking at ABX 2019
We’re excited to announce that Principals Clara Batchelor and Megan Tomkins will be leading a workshop at ABX 2019, “New Strategies in Social Placemaking” (enter WE18 in the search bar for more information). The workshop aims to address a growing interest in employing new strategies in placemaking and design for public open spaces, and will focus on the process we used at Salem’s new Charlotte Forten Park at 289 Derby Street. Together with key collaborators, Claudia Paraschiv of Studioful and Tom Daniel, AICP, Salem’s Director of Planning and Community Development, Megan and Clara will present attendees with a case study on the public process in Salem, discuss strategies for social placemaking and stakeholder engagement, involve participants in a hands-on activity, and moderate a group discussion about design trends, stakeholder participation, and applying placemaking principles during the design process.
Drum circle with a local instructor on the site prior to construction, using stump “seats” painted and arranged by student volunteers. Photo by John Andrews.
A round table discussion with key regulatory organizations and community group leaders. In the foreground, a temporary idea blackboard was installed at the site for six weeks to collect ideas and visions for the space from residents and passersby. Photo by John Andrews.
At each event, CBA presented design options and progress, holding one-on-one conversations with constituents to identify their needs and concerns. Photo by John Andrews.
Interactive design and family-friendly activities such as “Placemaking Placemats”, yoga, and live music were coordinated and developed by Claudia Paraschiv Studioful Design.
Nichols House Museum Event "Women in in Landscape Architecture Today" to feature Clara Batchelor on Wednesday, August 21st
On Wednesday, August 21st at 6:00pm, the Nichols House Museum will host a conversation surrounding women and gender in the field of landscape architecture featuring panelists Clara Batchelor, ASLA, Principal and Founder at CBA Landscape Architects, LLC; Deneen Crosby, ASLA, Principal at Crosby I Schlesinger I Smallridge; Eleni Glekas, Director of Historic Preservation at Boston Architectural College; and Jessalyn Jarest, ASLA, Principal and Founder at Jessalyn Jarest Landscape Architecture.
This panel discussion is the final event in a series of programming related to the Nichols House Museum’s exhibition “The Gardens of Rose Standish Nichols, 1890-1930” on view through August 31, 2019. Learn more at www.nicholshousemuseum.org.
This event will consist of 45-minutes of moderated discussion and 15-minutes of audience Q&A. The discussion will be followed by a light reception.
All are welcome. This event is free and open to the public.
2019 Berliner Seilfabrik's Breathtaking Pla(y)ces Brochure features Paris Street Playground
Paris Street Playground is an approximately three-quarter acre park serving a densely developed residential neighborhood in East Boston; it is used extensively by residents and the Paris Street Community Center's after school and summer programs. We’re pleased to share that the park is featured in Berliner Seilfabrik’s 2019 Breathtaking Pla(y)ces brochure. This brochure focuses on custom Berliner play structures designed by landscape architects; Paris Street Playground, owned and maintained by the City of Boston Parks & Recreation Department, features a custom rope climber designed collaboratively by CBA and Berliner.
CBA facilitated a robust, four-month-long / four public meeting public input process that included participants from the Community Center and neighbors to shape the final design. The renovation features a reoriented basketball court, stone dust sports area, tree-canopied lawn, climbing structures, swings, a splash pad, and play graphics. Our environmentally sensitive approach to the design is reflected in the pathway built on piers that traverses the grove of existing mature honey locust trees, solar-powered USB charging benches, LED site lighting, and a low-flow splash pad. The park’s “solar system” theme was chosen by the community during design development, and gives it a clear identity in the neighborhood.
CBA Principal Kaila Bachman to present 2/28 at the University of Rhode Island as part of 2018-2019 Lecture Series
CBA principal Kaila Bachman will present “Stories from the Sandbox: Communication, Collaboration, and Management in Work & Play” on February 28th, 2019, as part of The University of Rhode Island 2018-2019 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series. She is a URI alumna (‘10) and will be presenting with Kristin Kaczmarek, ‘05. The lecture will begin at 7PM and will be held in the Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical & Forensic Sciences, Room 105A, 140 Flagg Road, Kingston, RI. All lectures are free / open to the public.
Explore Placemaking with CBA at the BSA Space in February
February is a busy month here at CBA Landscape Architects - we'd love for you to join us at one of the following events at the BSA Space in Boston:
On Thursday, February 21st, an exhibit titled In the Public Interest: Redefining the Architect’s Role and Responsibility featuring the placemaking process CBA faciliated for the new Derby Street Park in Salem, MA, will open at the BSA Space in Boston. The opening will be from 6-8PM and will feature a panel discussion. The exhibit will be up from 2/14 - 4/14. In the Public Interest: Redefining the Architect’s Role and Responsibility will showcase six innovative architectural practices reimagining the architect’s contribution toward the public good. The selected projects will offer unique perspectives on the value of a community-engaged design process and the expanding nature of practice while presenting new methods for the profession to design with Boston’s communities.
On Monday, February 25th, from 6:00-7:30 PM at the BSA Space, Clara Batchelor, ASLA, LEED AP, Founding Principal at CBA Landscape Architects, will present Intimate Public Spaces in Greater Boston: Landscape Architecture as Placemaking. Clara will share the stories of select connective landscape designs serving adults and children in greater Boston. Particular attention will be paid to the narrative contexts and evolution of open spaces and parks, such as the Sidney Research Campus Public Plazas in Cambridge and the Paris Street Playground in East Boston. She will talk about the impetus for redesigning the Deanna Cremin Playground in Somerville and Cambridge’s Galaxy Park at the eastern terminus of Main Street in Kendall Square. Some of the issues to be discussed are: What’s special about the land use or evolution of the project? How did public / private partnerships evolve and impact the design? For public parks, how was the community brought into the design process? How have the projects been received?
BSA Space is located at 290 Congress Avenue, Boston. BSA Space is Boston’s leading center for architecture and design, and is home to the Boston Society of Architects/AIA and the BSA Foundation. BSA Space hosts exhibitions on design and architecture, architecture cruises and walking tours, and other programs and events that foster exchange between design and construction, the profession and the public, and encourage collaboration across the city and world. https://www.architects.org/bsaspace