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Outdoor Tastings Elevated by Opulent Landscape Designs Posted on March 31, 2021 Odette Landscape Hillside SAN FRANCISCO: Award-winning landscape architecture firm Surfacedesign specializes in creating colorful, inviting outdoor experiences for wineries. “The grounds are metaphorically a winery’s welcome mat,” says Roderick Wyllie, ASLA, Surfacedesign Co-Founding Partner. “We work with vintners to amplify their tasting experiences, enhance the distinctive building architecture common to wineries’ estates, and create memorable outdoor spaces for special events and everyday visitors.” Landscape materials are selected to minimize environmental impact while providing flexible visitor environments for outdoor wine-tasting and events. Surfacedesign received its first winery commission in 2011, and its portfolio in the typology continues to grow. ....
Airport’s Culturally Inspired Landscape Garners Surfacedesign Honors Airport’s Culturally Inspired Landscape Garners Surfacedesign Honors Surfacedesign won a 2020 American Architecture Award for its work at Auckland International Airport (AKL). The honor in the Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture category was awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. “Because 75 percent of New Zealand’s visitors land in Auckland, airport management wanted to highlight the country’s historic land-use practices at and around the terminal,” says Surfacedesign Co-Founding Partner and Auckland project lead James A. Lord, FASLA. “Our ecological landscape design is culturally rooted, informed by New Zealand’s centuries-old agrarian traditions from its indigenous Maori settlers and European immigrants in the 1800s.” ....