Penn State’s Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Community Outreach, Research, and Evaluation was recently awarded an AIA Pittsburgh Honor Award. The Center is home to CORE, a program that focuses on fostering positive youth development in Erie County, PA.
Merritt Chase collaborated with GBBN on the design of the landscape.
Congratulations to GBBN and Penn State!
Last week, White River Farm was awarded an 2022 Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects Award. Thank you to the Indiana Chapter of ASLA and the awards jury. More information on all the 2022 Award Winners can be found here.
Merritt Chase led the landscape architectural planning for the project and is currently executing first phase projects. Project partners include El Dorado Architects.
Congratulations to Nina Chase and Terrie Brightman! Nina and Terrie have been elected to lead their respective alumni organizations at Harvard and Penn State.
Nina now serves as the Co-Chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Alumni Council. The Alumni Council is the primary representative body of Harvard GSD alumni. Nina graduated with her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard GSD in 2012. She has served on the Alumni Council since 2018 and shares the role of Alumni Council Co-Chair with Riki Nishimura, Principal at Populous.
Terrie is currently the President of the Penn State Landscape Architecture Affiliate Program Group (APG) Alumni Board. Terrie graduated from Penn State in 2004 and has served on the Board since 2020. She also serves as the Alumni Coordinator for the Board’s mentorship program.
Merritt Chase is excited to welcome Paityn Monagan to the team! Paityn is a landscape designer whose work focuses on communicating and interpreting complex ideas and translating them into simple designs and concepts. She previously worked at Environmental Planning and Design and The Neighborhood Design Center.
Read Paityn’s bio and learn more about our full team on our About page here.
Merritt Chase is excited to welcome Danica Liongson to the team! Danica is a landscape designer with a focus on public realm projects that connect ecological and social systems. She previously worked at Reed Hilderbrand and SCAPE.
Read Danica’s bio and learn more about our full team on our About page here.
The Andy Warhol Museum’s Pop District debuted this week, complete with Merritt Chase’s Silver Streets installation! In the near future, The Pop District will be home to a six-block expansion of the museum. Merritt Chase has been working with The Andy Warhol Museum to build momentum for this long-term vision by conceptualizing the short-term design and activation of the Pop District’s public realm.
Merritt Chase’s Silver Streets concept takes inspiration from the silver surfaces and furniture in The Factory, Andy Warhol's infamous New York City studio. The Factory’s silver walls, tin foil ceiling, and spray-painted furniture were the backdrop to the colorful art and people in Andy Warhol’s orbit. Today, the public realm of the Pop District becomes a new, outdoor backdrop for the colorful art of The Andy Warhol Museum and the people of Pittsburgh. The Museum’s adjacent streets, alley, and parking lots have been temporarily transformed with silver paint, silver chairs, and silver scaffolding into a series of outdoor galleries and gathering spaces.
The Pop District is now home to two new public art installations, Michael Loveland’s Social Sculpture and Typoe’s Over The Rainbow mural. More installations will be populating the silver streets soon!
Read more about the Pop District in the New York Times here.
Landscape Architecture Magazine’s April issue features the Dunham Tavern Master Plan in “Tavern on the Scene: A Socially Isolated Historic Site Challenges Merritt Chase to Break Down Fences” by Timothy Schuler.
“‘There are more stories to tell…’ says Lauren Hansgen, the museum’s executive director, describing Dunham Tavern and its landscape as a witness to nearly every pivotal period in Cleveland’s history. A new master plan for the museum’s five-acre campus could help tell those stories, intentionally taking a broader, more inclusive approach to the tavern’s history…’let’s expand our period of interpretation, ‘ Hangsen says.”
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This week, Emerald View Park Regional Park Master Plan and Hazel Ruby McQuain Riverfront Park were awarded 2022 PA-DE Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Awards.
Thank you to the PA-DE Chapter of ASLA and the awards jury. Congratulations our clients, communities and design teams team!
Check out all the 2022 Award Winners here.
Alexandra Mei is a licensed landscape architect at Merritt Chase and was recently promoted to Associate. Alexandra’s current projects include the University School Lower School landscape in Cleveland, OH, and the South Downtown Indianapolis Connectivity Vision Plan in Indianapolis, IN. Alexandra was an integral partner in recent projects including the Dunham Tavern Master Plan in Cleveland, OH, and Emerald View Park Regional Park Master Plan in Pittsburgh, PA.
Learn more about Alexandra’s interests and background here.
