For World Landscape Architecture Month 2026, we’re highlighting how landscape architecture supports recovery, resilience, and community rebuilding.
Bionic is leading the urban design and planning for the rebuilding of Front Street and the waterfront in Lahaina, Hawaii. Following the devastating 2023 fire, the work focuses on creating a clear, implementable framework to guide reconstruction, supporting both the urgency of recovery and the long-term future of this historic coastal community.
The design integrates resilient infrastructure, public space, and coastal systems to improve safety, manage environmental risk, and reestablish access to the waterfront. Urban design guidelines and a cohesive public realm strategy will help coordinate rebuilding efforts, ensuring that new development contributes to a more connected, walkable, and adaptable Lahaina.
At its core, the work is about supporting the community and providing a framework that enables rebuilding while honoring place, strengthening resilience, and creating a foundation for future generations.
Client: County of Maui, Office of Recovery @mauicountyofficeofrecovery
Collaborators: Bowers + Kubota @bowers_kubota_hi , Opticos Design @opticosdesign , Speck Dempsey @speckdempsey
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For World Landscape Architecture Month 2026, we’re highlighting how landscape architecture addresses climate risk while strengthening community connections.
Bionic is leading the adaptation and planning for 3 miles of the Santa Barbara waterfront as part of the 30-Year Waterfront Adaptation Plan. Working at the intersection of infrastructure, ecology, and public space, the project develops nature-based solutions to address sea-level rise, storm surge, and coastal erosion.
The approach integrates living levees, resilient parks, and a multi-modal beachway to protect critical infrastructure while expanding access to the shoreline. Design strategies focus on managing stormwater, reducing risk, and maintaining the waterfront as a vital civic and economic resource.
Equally important is community engagement. Through public open houses, pop-up events, and interactive tools, including a three-dimensional flood model, the process brings stakeholders into the conversation, ensuring the plan reflects both long-term resilience and everyday use.
Client: @cityofsb
Collaborator: @stantec
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For World Landscape Architecture Month 2026, we’re highlighting how collaboration drives design forward.
Ambitious, large scale projects are shaped through ongoing coordination between landscape architects, engineers, architects, and planners aligning vision, infrastructure, and site systems from the outset.
Bionic is leading the landscape and public realm design for a new urban village and 200-acre public park on the Russian River in Cloverdale, CA. The design organizes the site through a network of woodland groves, trails, and public spaces that respond to the Alexander Valley landscape while supporting a walkable, pedestrian-priority district.
Through collaboration, the project moves from concept to a clear, implementable framework.
Client: Esmeralda Land Company
Collaborators: Sherwood Design Engineers @sherwoodengineers , 10 Design @10design.co , Urban Field @urbanfieldstudio
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To kick off World Landscape Architecture Month 2026, we’re highlighting a project where design shapes a flexible, dynamic public space at the heart of an evolving urban district. From first sketch to a thriving public space Redwood Square is a story of design brought to life.
Redwood Square is the central public space within Cityline Sunnyvale, a transformative redevelopment that reimagines six downtown blocks as a connected, walkable urban district. At the heart of this new network is a preserved grove of heritage redwood trees once hidden inside a mall light well and now the anchor of a dynamic park. Framed by retail, restaurants, and residential buildings, the square acts as both a civic centerpiece and a connector. Designed for flexibility and daily use, the park includes spaces to play, rest, and gather, blending history, ecology, and urban life into a cohesive public realm that feels both rooted and forward-looking.
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Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // The digital water curtain at Redwood Square is a bold centerpiece to this new public space and introduces movement, sound, and light to the eastern edge of the plaza. Programmed to display changing patterns and sequences, the feature transforms throughout the day and into the evening, engaging visitors and anchoring the square with a sense of innovation. This dynamic element enhances the plaza’s identity, offering both visual interest and a lively focal point for those gathering in the space.
Client: Hunter Properties, Sares Regis @saresregisgroup
Collaborators: Gensler @genslerbayarea , Heller Manus Architects @heller_manus_architects , SGPA @sgpa.arch
Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // Bionic is leading the adaptation and waterfront planning for the 3-mile Santa Barbara waterfront. Orchestrating short and long term change, this plan will prepare the waterfront for increased storm surges, erosion, and flooding by creating a vision that preserves and enhances recreation, commerce, beach access, habitat, and critical infrastructure.
Client: City of Santa Barbara
Collaborators: Stantec @stantec , ESA
Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // Bionic won three awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California Chapter. These awards highlight Bionic’s focus on designing inventive landscapes that integrate ecology, infrastructure, and public life in meaningful ways. Each recognized project responds to complex site challenges with innovative solutions that strengthen the public realm, connect people and places.
Honor Award for General Design: Force Field
Client: Zeiss
Collaborators: Gensler
Merit Award for Urban Design: Emery Yards
Client: BioMed Realty
Collaborators: Flad Architects, IPD
Merit Award for Urban Design: Plus Plan
Client: Portland State University
Collaborators: OFFICE 52, FUTUREFORMS, RSM Design
Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // Bionic is leading the urban design and planning for the rebuilding of Front Street and the waterfront in Lahaina, Hawaii. As part of the recovery effort for Lahaina following the devastating 2023 fire, the Front Street urban design concept, design guidelines, and waterfront design will support expedited rebuilding for this community and historic destination.
Client: County of Maui, Office of Recovery @mauicountyofficeofrecovery
Collaborators: Bowers + Kubota @bowers_kubota_hi , Opticos Design @opticosdesign , Speck Dempsey @speckdempsey
Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // Bionic led the design of the public realm for 4 blocks in downtown San Francisco to reinvent the Moscone Center Pedestrian Corridor into into an iconic, vibrant, and inspiring public space connecting the convention center and Union Square.
Client: Yerba Buena Partnership @visityerbabuenasf
Collaborators: RSM Design @rsmdesign , Field Operations @fieldoperations
Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // Bionic is leading the design of the landscape and public realm for a new urban village and 200-acre public park on the Russian River in Cloverdale, CA. Located on the site of a former lumber mill, the design responds to the site ecologies and topography to envision a pedestrian priority urban village defined by woodland groves and a necklace of trails and public spaces that are integrated into the Alexander Valley landscape.
Client: Esmeralda Land Company
Collaborators: Sherwood Design Engineers @sherwoodengineers , 10 Design @10design.co , Urban Field @urbanfieldstudio
Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // Bionic’s “Flying Colors” was selected as a winning proposal in the 2025 Market Street Reimagined Competition hosted by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, ULI, and the Civic Joy Fund. The esteemed Jury including Jony Ive, Sir Norman Foster, Stanley Saitowitz, and Janette Sadik-Kahn selected 5 winners out of 170 anonymous entries from nine countries.
Client: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie @danielluriesf , ULI San Francisco @ulisf , Civic Joy Fund @civic_joy_fund
Bionic Landscape 2025 Replay // For 30 years the trees in Redwood Square survived in the light well of a shopping mall. The Cityline mixed use development revitalized a six-block area of the downtown core and constructed a public park around the five existing mature coast redwood trees planted to commemorate local heroes from decades ago. Urban design, streetscapes, and new residential and commercial buildings connect the new development to existing businesses, landmarks, and infrastructure to complete the fabric of the city and create a new regional destination. The park at the center of the development is a bold new model for urban development in Silicon Valley that organizes a city around nature. Play areas, a water feature, a lawn, seating areas, art installations, and seasonal plantings radiate from the grove of trees to touch the active commercial edge and draw visitors to experience the Grove’s magnificence.
Client: Hunter Properties, Sares Regis @saresregisgroup
Collaborators: Gensler @genslerbayarea , Heller Manus Architects @heller_manus_architects , SGPA @sgpa.arch
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