Parks / Trailheads
Meadow Playscape within Forest Park
Forest Park Playscape - St. Louis, MO
This Playscape of seventeen acres of restored prairie and woodland in the middle of urban Forest Park invites visitors to explore a continuous accessible path that visits 7 ecologically themed play spaces that are enjoyed by school groups, families, dog walkers and nature enthusiasts. Rubus was the landscape architect consultant in partnership with Interboro Partners & David Mason Associates.
Bittner Trailhead Entry - Guilford CT
Bittner Park Trailhead - Guilford, CT
Two trailheads lead from Baldwin Middle School yard into the 136-acre woodland in North Guilford. Entries to these trailheads were integrated into the design of the play environment by marking the entries with boulders and decorative features, making entries inviting while integrating places to rest and meet friends.
Existing Condition - Medina, NY
Medina High Wall & Art Route
Teaming up with Interboro Partners for the New York Power Authority (NYPA), Rubus has been the landscape consultant for the rehabilitation of the Medina High Wall trail, trailheads and adjacent natural areas. This project is currently in the final stages of design.
Prospect Park Alliance - Brooklyn, NY
Crystal Gaudio was the lead landscape architect at Brooklyn NY’s Prospect Park from 2007-2013, during which time she worked on several historic and play-based projects with the Prospect Park Alliance (PPA) design and construction office.
LeFrak Center at Lakeside
Teaming up with Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), the Prospect Park Alliance landscape architecture office acted as Owners Rep, Landscape Designer, Landscape Installer & Future Maintenance provider. This was an amazing experience and award winning design featuring an extensive and intensive green roof, entry planting, circulation hardscape throughout and featured native plants.
Shelby White and Leon Levy Esplanade & Chaim Baier Music Island
Shelby White sponsored the restoration of Prospect Park’s lake edge, the restoration of the Olmsted’s Concert Grove and Music Island. I was the lead designer on staff at the Prospect Park Alliance (PPA) at the time and participated in the layout, grading and planting design as well as construction supervision. I have always loved grading and drainage, and this project was a dream. I drew the grading plan and was able to supervise the construction crew that created Music Island, the focal point of Prospect Park’s Concert Grove. We moved tons of earth, placed hundreds of boulders and moved truck loads of pea gravel behind a coffer dam in Prospect Park’s Lake. As the water came back in, Music Island emerged: a wonderful day. Finishing the project off with bluestone paving, an ornamental rail, custom plazas and a native plant pallet integrated defined this project as an award winning destination.
Awards include:
Lucy Moses Award for Historic Restoration 2012 - Restoration of the Prospect Park Lakeshore and Music Island
ASLA-NY Merit Award for Design Excellence 2012 - Restoration of the Prospect Park Lakeshore and Music Island
NYC Design Commission Award for Excellence 2010 - Restoration of the Prospect Park Lakeshore from the Summer House to the Concert Grove and Music Island