Overview of Notable Project Experience

Developed with Counts Studio, Brooklyn, NY

  • More Square Master Plan, Raleigh, NC

  • World War 1 National Memorial Competition Finalist, Washington, DC

  • Bejing International Masters Garden, Beijing, China

  • 22nd Street Garden, New York, NY

  • Savoy Apartments Master Plan and Garden, New York, NY

  • Happy Valley Garden, Hubei, China

  • Quinshan New City (Multiple Projects), Zhuhai, China

  • ExpoGeorgia, Tblisi, Georgia

Developed with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, New York, NY

  • Bailey Plaza, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • American Society of Landscape Architects Headquarters Building Green Roof, Washington, DC

  • Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY

  • Lower Don Lands, Toronto, ON

  • London Olympics White Water Kayak Corse, London, UK

  • Corktown Common, Toronto, ON

  • Novartis North American Headquarters Campus, East Hanover, NJ

  • Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, Washington, DC

  • Teardrop Park, New York, NY

Developed with Perkins & Will, Miami, FL

  • Jacksonville River Plaza, Jacksonville, FL (Former Site of the Jacksonville Landing)

  • Pedestrian Mall and Quad, Florida International University, Miami, FL

  • Huizenga Park, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

  • Florida Power and Light Headquarters, Palm Beach County, FL

  • Cortzone Housing and Garden, Los Angles, CA

  • Cornell Housing, New York, NY

  • Prudential Visitors Center Landscape, Boston, MA

  • Fair Park Master Plan, Dallas, TX

  • Sunset Boulevard Gateway, Los Angles, CA

In Collaboration with Raymond Jungles, Miami, FL

  • 302 Ocean Drive Condo Development in Collaboration with Terra, Key Biscayne, FL

  • Memorial Garden for Brice Marden, Athens, NY

  • Restoration Hardware, Aventura, FL

  • Private Island, Exhumas, Bahamas

  • Various Residential Landscapes, South Florida

Awards and Competitions

  • Florida AIA, Parkview Promenade and Quad, Florida International University, Miami, FL, Design Principal in in collaboration with Perkins and Will, Miami, FL

  • Florida AIA, Parkview Promenade and Quad, Florida International University, Miami, FL, Design Principal in in collaboration with Perkins and Will, Miami, FL

  • Florida ASLA, 2800 Ponce Plaza, Coral Gables, FL, Design Principal in in collaboration with Perkins and Will, Miami, FL

  • Los Angles AIA, Cortzone Housing, Los Angles, FL, Design Principal in in collaboration with Perkins and Will, Los Angles, CA

  • National ASLA Honor Award in Analysis and Planning, 100-Year Vision for 220-Year-Old Square, Moore Square Raleigh, NC

  • Nominee, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award in Landscape Architecture New York, NY

  • Finalist, Off-The-Rails Design Competition, Ft. Collins, Colorado (Anonymous)

  • ASLA National Honor Award, Corktown Common: Flood Protection and Neighborhood Park

    Christopher Counts Senior Associate Project Designer in collaboration with Michael Van Valkenburgh

  • Invited Participant, Olana Summer House Design Exhibition “Follies, Form & Function; Imagining Olana’s Summer House.” Organized by the Olana Partnership with NYAIA and NYASLA, Hudson, NY

  • Finalist,World War One National Memorial Design Competition

    Washington, District of Columbia (1 of 5 selected from 350+ international anonymous entries)

  • Visiting Artist,The American Academy in Rome Rome, Italy

  • International Design Competition First Place Winner, Happy Valley Garden

    Whuhan, China (1st place from 900+ international anonymous entries in from 30 countries)

  • Design Competition Winner, Beijing International Garden Expo, Included in Master’s Garden Expo with leading designers including; Diane Balmori, Peter Latz, Eva Castro, Toru Mitani, and Peter Walker

    Beijing, China

  • National Competition Winner for Moore Square Raleigh, North Carolina (1st place out of 80 entries)

  • Rome Prize Winner, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, ItalyPrince Charitable Fellow in Landscape Architecture. Project: Drawing and Painting as a Means to Study the Movement, Spatial Registration, and Appropriated Use of the Masterpieces of the Italian Urban Landscape 

  • ASLA Honor Award, Green Roof for the American Society of Landscape Architects Project Designer in collaboration with Michael Van Valkenburgh, Washington, DC

  • Building Stone Tucker Design Award, Bailey Plaza Project Designer in collaboration with Michael Van Valkenburgh Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • ASLA Honor Award, ASLA National Headquarters Green Roof Project Designer in collaboration with Michael Van Valkenburgh, Washington, DC

  • Finalist for Wharf District Park, Central Artery Park Project Designer in collaboration with Michael Van Valkenburgh and Matthew Urbanski Boston, MA