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Broadstone Corsair is a wrap style, LEED designed, 360-unit luxury apartment, mixed-use commercial and retail project located in the Kearney Mesa community of San Diego, California. GMP worked closely with the client, Alliance Residential, to provide a strong sense of arrival and connection through the marketing corridor, known as the “Yellow Brick Road”, from leasing office through community recreation room, fitness center and main pool area. We also provided a…
Urbana is a 6-story residential apartment building by H.G. Fenton located in the East Village district of Downtown San Diego. GMP designed the streetscape directly in front of the project, along 10th Avenue, in conformance with CCDC guidelines to complement the area’s strong urban appeal. GMP also provided a clean modern landscape design for the ground level central courtyard and a rooftop deck. The central courtyard features include: burnished block…
Archstone Gateway is an 840-unit luxury apartment community located in the platinum triangle, in the cities of Anaheim and Orange, California. The community features a design theme based on the urban character in which it is located. This project provided several exciting challenges for GMP. First, the location, on the boundary of two municipalities, allowed us to carefully coordinate project amenities, circulation, public services, and drawing packages between municipalities. Second,…
Archstone Presidio View is a 240-unit luxury apartment community located in the Mission Valley Area of San Diego, CA. The community features a design theme based on the San Diego River Corridor with an urban contemporary twist. The carefully designed amenities, common areas, pedestrian walkways, and recreational areas seamlessly thread the public and private needs and make the architecture and landscape a part of this urban fabric. Presidio View amenities…
GMP provided design services for this 396-unit luxury apartment community located in the Mission Valley area of San Diego, CA. This Italian themed landscape was brought to life by creating a seamless connection between architecture and landscape rich in authentic old-world Italian charm. Community amenities include outdoor barbeque and gathering areas, walking paths, a luxury resort-style pool, spa, and recreation center overlooking Mission Valley. Unique design features include a grand…
As part of the SpringHill Suites project team, GMP worked closely with the architect and design team in providing landscape architectural design services for this restaurant and hotel. The hotel and ancillary structures such as the pool area and exterior spaces reflect a Contemporary Beach style with landscape design elements such as decorative paving, raised planters and street scene design and landscaping.
GMP provided professional landscape architectural designs for all facets of the Cabo Villas Resort, a 12-acre cliffside resort located on the Sea of Cortez. The resort will provide a sanctuary of peace and relaxation for its guests. GMP’s designs include a consistent theme that permeates the resort’s pools and garden spaces and through each element of the guest experience. Subtly inspired by the mining industry found throughout Mexico, both the architecture and landscape design…
GMP provided professional landscape architectural design services for the Kona Kai Resort & Marina located on the waterfront of the San Diego Harbor in San Diego, CA. This 11-acre resort was completely renovated in 1995 with all new landscaping, pool areas, beachfront, and outdoor gathering areas. GMP’s designs provided for a new hotel entry, fountains and water features throughout the resort. Additionally, our designs provided for new landscaping for a…
GMP Inc. is providing land planning and landscape architectural services for Mountain Bridge, a 700 acre master-planned community in Mesa, Arizona. The community is planned for 1,200 homes in several neighborhoods, 2 neighborhood parks, a recreation facility with a community pool, tennis facility and lake, a 10 acre commercial site and community entry features at a grand scale. Fundamental to the planning of Mountain Bridge is the preservation of 170…
Santaluz, a part of Black Mountain Ranch, and located 30 miles north of downtown San Diego, originally consisted of 4,000 acres of overgrazed non-native grassland. The goal of the project was to create a seamless, integrated landscape design that harkened of a time when the foothills of the region rolled with native shrubs, grasslands, rich riparian channels, and majestic plantings of Coast Live Oak, California Sycamore and Willow trees. GMP…
GMP provided landscape master planning services for Bressi Ranch, a 585-acre master planned community located in Carlsbad, CA. The community was designed with the theme of a historic garden district incorporating elements specific to the history and environment of Carlsbad and the Southern California Region to create a sense of permanence and historical character. Using the land plan developed by Peter Calthorpe following Ahwanee principles to create pedestrian interconnectedness, GMP…
La Costa Ridge is a Tuscan hillside village inspired master planned community in Carlsbad, CA consisting of 262 single family homes on 465 acre sitting atop one the highest points in Carlsbad. GMP developed the design of the projects gated entry to evoke the feeling of entering a Tuscan hillside villa special attention was paid to all hardscape and landscape material selection as well as the geometry of the entry…
Thirty years after providing landscape architectural services for the original Lawrence Welk resort in Escondido, California, GMP is working again with Welk Resorts in the design of the Mountain Villas Resort and Preview Center; an additional 146-units in this luxury resort project. Landscape architectural designs include a 7,250 square foot lagoon style pool with a beach entry, spacious deck and lawn areas with lounge and seating areas for 250, two…
GMP provided conceptual landscape architecture designs and site planning for Welk Resorts Branson, a new 1.35-acre recreation and preview center nestled in Missouri’s breathtaking Ozark Mountains. GMP prepared several conceptual alternative design plans for a 4,375 square foot resort-style indoor/outdoor pool and lazy river. Features of the design included extensive rock work, snack and pool cabanas, tot-lot, interactive water play area, waterfall, fire pit, and outdoor deck gathering area. Additional…
CONCEPTUAL STUDIES
CONCEPTUAL STUDIES
GMP provided landscape architectural designs for Agave and Saguaro, a 359-unit attached and detached multi-family town home community located within the master planned community of Windingwalk in Chula Vista, California. Agave, a 2007 SAM Awards winner for Best Landscape Architecture for an Attached Housing, features structures and design elements chosen to strongly reinforce and celebrate the architectural principals of San Diego’s own Irving Gill. The community features exact replicas of…