CARBO Landscape Architecture

pleted works over the last sixteen years, foster our ideals of exceptional design and implementation with tremendous attention to detail. CARBO practices in the areas of municipal, institutional, recreational, and residential design. Projects include state parks, arts and cultural facilities, corporate offices, botanical gardens, urban centers, college campuses, residential and community developments, sports, recreational venues, leisure amenities; transportation enhancements, parks, nature centers, and private residences. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

CARBO has specialized experience in parks and recreation master planning and design including site and facility analysis, leisure and recreational programming, master planning, and design of gardens and outdoor recreation facilities. The firm also has experience in the design of infrastructure and support systems including utilities, signage and way-finding, vehicular roads, drives and parking systems; arbors/shade structures, and other ancillary park structures. PHILOSOPHY

CARBO strives to create elegant, serene and meaningful landscapes with timeless appeal. Our work is influenced by not only client needs and requests, but the indigenous landscape character of the region or locale in which we are working. Our completed works are influenced by the landscapes which surround them. Our goal is to identify unique local characteristics, and incorporate those features with subtle and abstract interpretations. We believe it is possible to successfully integrate and balance practical concerns with art, ecology, environmental sensibilities, and the culture and history of place. Jens Jensen, a noted mid-western landscape architect who practiced in the Chicago parks system in the early 1900’s wrote of this in his book “Siftings”. He states, “Art has its roots in the soil”, where he speaks of the native landscapes, and extols the virtues of identifying and celebrating that which is unique and special to a site or region. We also make every attempt to celebrate that which makes a place special.