International Competition Finalist (1 of 5)

World War 1 National Memorial, Washington, DC

Counts Studio is selected as a finalist out of 350+ international entries for the competition to design a new National Memorial for World War I in Washington, D.C. Counts Studio is the only Landscape team selected to compete from Stage I to Stage II. In stage II, further refinement and development to the original entry is completed for the final presentation to the Jury and public exhibition in Washington, D.C.  The Jury remarked that this design "The Heroes’ Green design shows a command of the landscape medium. As a landscape approach, it is transformative and creates a new park typology not yet seen in Washington DC."

National ASLA Honor Award Winner

Moore Square, Raleigh, North Carolina

This award-winning urban park design for a 220-year-old public square located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina builds off the site’s most significant characteristics while expanding its experiential and programmatic range in transforming this under-performing public space into a high-performance urban park.

International Competition Winner out of 900+ Entries

Happy Valley Garden, Hubei, China

This international competition explores how to engage people physically and emotionally in gardens to activate their senses and inspire them to participate with the landscape. It aspires to promote sustainability through water recapture, maximize fun, human enjoyment, and exchange among an eclectic collection of visitors from all over the world through landform contouring. The garden is a celebration of differences between both metaphorical and physical highs and lows expressed through voluptuous topography, flowering ground covers, and imaginative pathway networks.

200+ Year-Old-Garden Re-Imagined

337 Garden, New York, New York

This garden project is exemplary of the collaborative nature of our work. The project incorporates the re-use of existing materials including schist, brownstone and blue stone and rainwater re-capture for a completely sustainable solution to a high-end residential lot. The design results in a series of 'rooms' for the residents for dwelling, entertaining and enjoying from inside the garden and through views from the interior of the house in which a relatively small space is maximized to become several. A sculpture using 3d fabrication technology by Matthew Ritchie complements that garden and serves at the focal point of the upper terrace.

40 Acre former Soviet Expo Grounds Reinvigorated

ExpoGeorgia, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

This urban park design unifies a 40-acre former-soviet expo grounds with a new 560,000 sf convention center through an overlay of site-scaled loops, leafy grove plantings, and new landscape program that increases the park’s usable outdoor space by 750%.

International Competition Winner

Beijing International Garden Expo, Beijing, China

Challenging the historical paradigm of inward oriented gardens, the Beijing Expo looks out to engage adjacent gardens and its context through an outward oriented composition of overlapping paths, swaths of plantings, and sculpted earthworks activated by movement, light, and time.