News Archive

MCB Real Estate has announced the selection of Gensler to lead the design team reimagining Harborplace in Baltimore. Gensler is joined by Baltimore-based firms Sulton Campbell Britt & Associates, BCT Design Group, and Unknown Studio.

In Spring 2023, Unknown Studio dedicated time and resources towards stewardship and mentorship in Baltimore City.

Alongside ASK+, The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, The Boston Planning & Development Agency, MassDOT, and the design team, we are thrilled to announce two prestigious awards for North Meadow on the Greenway.

Maryland ASLA has selected the Druid Lake Vision Plan for the Presidential Award of Excellence, the organization's highest honor. The Vision Plan proposes comprehensive improvements to access, community programming, bike and pedestrian connectivity, and ecological function.

Unknown Studio is thrilled to participate in The Landscape Architecture Foundation's Ignite Scholarship program for its 2023 Inaugural summer internship.

The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) has announced that the LEVER Architecture Team has been selected to lead the design team for the PMA’s $100 million campus expansion and unification project, The PMA Blueprint.

Unknown Studio has been selected to lead landscape design for the Vero Beach Museum of Art’s seven-acre waterfront campus expansion and renovation.

Unknown Studio is honored to be participating in two compelling education sessions at this year’s American Society for Landscape Architects 2022 Conference in San Francisco.

Join Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre at Longwood Gardens’ bicentennial celebration in honor of renowned Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Unknown Studio Contributes to Publication Letting Play Bloom

Unknown Studio and GLMV Selected to Lead Planning for The Naples Botanical Garden

Groundbreaking at North Meadow Park on Boston’s Greenway

Join Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre on June 22 at #ASLASkillEd for a conversation with SCAPE’s Alexis Landes and Lorena Galvao to discuss business as a social practice. This three day online conference offers professional development sessions on business development, proposals, contracting and more. CEU’s are available. For more information and to register visit: https://asla.org/SkillEd

Unknown Studio is thrilled to have been selected to lead a talented design and engineering team for The Druid Lake Vision Plan. Under the leadership of Baltimore City Recreation & Parks, a community planning effort will guide the transformation of this former drinking reservoir and beloved destination into a new recreational amenity.

Unknown Studio is honored to have been awarded the commission to redesign Roland Water Tower Park, an historic greenspace that has evolved from civil infrastructure and transportation hub to community greenspace and home to beloved peregrine falcons. Our studio is thrilled to kick off public engagement for this gem of a park in order to design a space that serves the needs of the immediate neighborhoods and greater Baltimore.

On Thursday, September 24 at 12pm, Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre will present at the Virtual Ohio ASLA Speaker Series. Her lecture, “MicroCosmos: Recent Works by Unknown Studio” will discuss balancing resilience with the creation of meaningful human experiences and how large-scale projects can be phased incrementally for meaningful, long term impacts.

Unknown Studio is pleased to announce the promotion of David Zielnicki to Principal Landscape Architect. As a founding team member, David’s intelligence, rigor, creativity, and collaborative spirit have been foundational to the culture and design at Unknown Studio. As designers and inhabitants of the landscape, we rely on passion, comfort with complexity, and an empathetic spirit. Dave is emblematic of all the above and we welcome him to the leadership team with great enthusiasm for the collaborations that lie ahead.

On Thursday, March 12th, Unknown Studio’s Nick Glase and Claire Agre will present the Keynote Lecture at 2020 Vision, ASLA Kentucky’s Conference on Landscape Architecture. Their lecture, “All the Pieces Matter: Recent Works by Unknown Studio” will explore complexity, serendipity and open-endedness in design practice. Looking back while they project into the future, Unknown Studio will discuss how their deliberate move of setting up their practice in Baltimore has helped enrich their work and expand their role as practitioners.

Join Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre and James Corner Field Operations’ Sarah Weidner Astheimer for the inaugural talk of the 2020 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series. Claire and Sarah will present “Unbuilt Futures,” a dialogue focusing on landscape architects’ leading role in a process of unbuilding. Whether deconstructing hard shorelines into soft, resilient and ecological edges; establishing strategies for managed retreat; or reconceptualizing rural open spaces as sophisticated, regenerative landscapes; the discipline of landscape architecture is heavily engaged in finding solutions for the intricate and complex questions facing our common future.