As part of the North Shore LIJ Medical Center expansion by SOM, Thomas Balsley Associates was commissioned to design a landscape that reflects both the hospital’s commitment to healing and its reputation as a progressive health care institution. Thomas Balsley Associates has proposed two major landscape spaces for the campus. The first of these spaces is a campus green which is both visible and iconic and presents a new public face of the hospital to its visitors. This large landscape island is located at the core of the hospital entry and is both flexible and useful enough to host activities ranging from contemplative seating to small performances, all within a lush contemporary landscape setting of lawns, boulders, native grasses and enhanced by the sights and sounds of a runnel and water wall. The second landscape space is an intimate “women’s” garden that extends the lobby views and activities outdoors. This small expressive space is a quiet contemplative garden room that will host café seating clusters and glass “healing” shelters with poetic inscriptions. Each shelter aligns with a linear garden that recalls Long Island’s rich nursery heritage.
Public Safety Answering Center
The landscape is a key component of the PSAC II site. This new five hundred million dollar emergency call center is strategically located in the Bronx, New York and will facilitate emergency response for the City of New York.
An earthern grassland berm completely envelops PSAC II’s architecture and establishes a visual connection between PSAC II and the...
Columbia University Landscape Master Plan
As part of a larger development framework plan by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects, Thomas Balsley Associates was commissioned to prepare a landscape master plan for this important historical campus.
The work began with extensive historical research into the original McKim Mead & White plan and Olmsted writings as well as an assessment of current camp...
Medgar Evers College
This new quad provides a unifying pedestrian connection between Bedford and Franklin Avenues and between existing and new campus buildings, finally providing the campus with a cohesive identity and sense of place. With the dramatic transformation of a parking lot into more campus green space comes the opportunity to integrate a series of sustainability strateg...
New Jersey Institute of Technology Green
This campus, like many others, has suffered from the lack of a coherent plan, rendering its campus experience to a series of passages through disconnected interstitial spaces. A key component of the landscape master plan was the identification of new building sites on campus that would shed light on a comprehensive assessment of open spaces and movement system...