Darlene Montgomery

Registered Landscape Architect

darlene.montgomery@lady.garden

 

 

Why landscape architecture?

 

There is something uncanny about design, something that happens outside of the cognitive, outside of the sensory, almost as if it happens deep under my feet or behind my field of vision and articulated by shadows: the composite of elements that make up the design that viewing excludes.

 

For me, this is what connects design as a practice: this searching for the uncanny, the specific set of elements a site offers and the unfathomable-ness of connections that make something happen; that, and the collective effort of all of the many people in the world who simply care about the way things look and feel and function and change over time, the way light bounces, the way a window sounds as it closes, the surprise of materials used in a new way.

 

I have designed landscapes for almost 20 years and have been fortunate to have worked on projects that have varied in scale from a rooftop children’s garden for the YMCA to a 50-mile long bioremediation project in a place that doesn’t like wet landscapes. I still believe in every site and in every project's ability to delight, and to elevate our experience of landscape. And to just elevate our experience.

 

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Queen's University Bachelor of Arts English

University of  Toronto Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

University of  Toronto Master of Landscape Architecture

 

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Moriyama and Teshima Architects, Toronto

Brook McIlroy Urban Design and Planning, Toronto

Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge

LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architecture, Boston

Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects (MNLA), New York

MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA), Toronto

 

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PROJECTS WITH MJMA

 

1. Queens University John Deutsch Student Centre

Kingston, Ontario

 

2. Canada Summer Games 2021

St. Catharines and Port Dalhousie, Ontario

 

3. York St Park Competition

Toronto, Ontario, with Stephen Stimson Landscape Architects

 

4. Guelph South End Community Centre Landscape

Guelph, Ontario

 

5. Changying Lifestyle Centre

Beijing, China

 

6. McMaster University David Bradley Centre Expansion Landscape

Hamilton, Ontario

 

7. East Hants Aquatics Centre + Park

East Hants, Nova Scotia

 

8. London East Community Centre + Park

London, Ontario

 

9. Orillia Community Centre + Park

Orillia, Ontario

 

10. Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre + Park

Hamilton, Ontario

 

11. Churchill Meadows Community Centre + Park

Mississauga, Ontario

 

12. Niagara College Campus Additions Landscapes

Niagara on the Lake and Welland, Ontario

 

13. Wellesley Community Centre Phase 2 Landscape

Toronto, Ontario

 

14. Audley Recreation Centre Phase 2 + Park

Ajax, Ontario

 

15. Sherwood Community Centre Landscape

Milton, Ontario

 

16. Norseman Co-working Retrofit Landscape

Etobicoke, Ontario

 

17. University of Guelph Mitchell Athletic Centre Landscape

Guelph, Ontario

 

18. University of British Columbia Aquatic Centre Landscape

Vancouver, BC

 

19. Bessarion Community Centre Landscape

North York, Ontario

 

20. London Southwest Community Centre Landscape

London, Ontario

 

21. Conestoga College Athletic Centre Landscape

Kitchener, Ontario

 

22. Dalhousie University Dalplex Addition Landscape

Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

 

PROJECTS WITH MNLA

 

23. West Point Foundry Preserve

Cold Spring, New York

with Li Saltzman Architects, C&G Exhibition Design, GHD Civil and Structural

Received NYASLA Honor award

Received the John Roebling Award for Industrial Archaeology

Published on the cover of Landscape Architecture Magazine, April 2015

 

24. Coney Island Center Park and Playground

Brooklyn, New York

with Grimshaw Architects

 

25. The Abington Residential Tower, 500 West 30th Street

Manhattan, New York

with Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Published in World Landscape Architecture 2014

 

26. Lincoln Center Damrosch Park

Manhattan, New York

with Diller Scofidio and Renfro Architects

 

27. 252 E 57th Street Residential Tower

Manhattan, New York

with SOM Architects

 

28. The New School University Center

Manhattan, New York

with SOM Architects

Published in Landscape Architecture Magazine, April 2015

 

29. Hudson Square Streetscape Masterplan

Manhattan, New York

MNLA (prime) with Rogers Marvel Architects, Billings Jackson Design, Arup Transport and Lighting, Open Graphics

Received NYASLA Honor award

 

30. Freeman Plaza

Manhattan, New York

Received 2019 NYASLA Honor Award

 

31. Orchard Beach Bath House Masterplan

Bronx, New York

 

32. SoHo Square Landscape

Manhattan, New York

 

33. Lehman College Life Sciences Lab Landscape

Bronx, New York

with Perkins and Will Architects

 

34. Water Street Resiliency Study

Manhattan, New York

with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects

 

35. Bogardus Garden

Manhattan, New York

 

36. Patrick Moynihan Courthouse

Manhattan, New York

with Gruzen Samton Architects

 

37. CW Post Campus Restoration

Long Island, New York

 

 

PROJECTS WITH HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES

 

38. Syracuse University Life Sciences Building

Syracuse, New York

with Ellenzweig Architects

 

39. Long Bridge Park

Arlington, Virginia

 

40. Arkansas Nature Center Landscape

Little Rock, Arkansas

with Eskew Dumas Ripple Architects

 

41. Drexel University Quadrangle

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

42. Pratt Street Streetscape Competition

Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

PROJECTS WITH BROOK MCILROY URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING

 

43. University of Prince Edward Island Campus Plan

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

 

44. University of New Brunswick Saint John Campus Plan

Saint John, New Brunswick

 

45. Memorial University Campus Plans

St. John's and Cornerbrook Campuses, Newfoundland

 

46. Saint Mary’s University Campus Plan

Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

47. University of Cape Breton Campus Plan

Sydney, Nova Scotia

 

48. St Clair Crosstown LRT Landscape

Toronto, Ontario

 

49. Uxbridge Urban Design Study

Uxbridge, Ontario

 

50. St. Davids Urban Design Study

St. Davids, Ontario

 

51. The Avenues Urban Design Study: College Street

Toronto, Ontario

 

52. King City Urban Design Study

King City, Ontario

 

53. Gardiner Expressway Landscape Improvements

Toronto, Ontario

with Architects’ Alliance

 

 

PROJECTS WITH MORIYAMA AND TESHIMA ARCHITECTS

 

54. University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies

Toronto, Ontario

 

55. Wadi Hanifah Bioremediation Landscape

Riyadh, United Arab Emirates

with Buro Happold

Received Top Honor from the Waterfront Center in Washington DC

Received Aga Khan Award for Architecture

 

56. Noor Cultural Centre Landscape Restoration

Toronto, Ontario

 

57.  Toronto Reference Library Plaza

Toronto, Ontario

 

58. YMCA Children’s Gardens

Toronto, Ontario.