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.
Leeum Samsung Museum of Art
From its mountainside perch overlooking Seoul, the Samsung Museum of Art Complex boasts museums by three of the world’s most sought-after architects: Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel and Mario Botta. Uniting these remarkable yet divergent works of architecture is a space of clean and powerful gestures. This elegant, understated landscape serves as their matrix and mu...
Success Academy K-12 Campus
Success Academy’s first ground-up campus brings together elementary, middle, and high school under one roof in the South Bronx—a community historically underserved by public infrastructure. The project establishes a dignified and aspirational new presence for one of the nation’s largest and highest-performing public charter networks. Designed by SO...
Tampa Museum of Art
The new Tampa Museum of Art by Stanley Saitowitz is set within the city’s arts district whose master plan was prepared by Thomas Balsley Associates and also includes Performing Arts Center, Children’s Museum, Riverwalk, and the centerpiece Curtis Hixon Park. The museum is dramatically sited on a plinth overlooking its companion park and the Hillsborough River....
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...