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“Once we had a better handle on what the pandemic was going to mean for this year, we reached out to the students who we had awarded the internships to last year, asking if they wanted to renew their participation, knowing that they would be graduating seniors and this was strictly still an internship. All…

3North just wrapped up it’s 2019 Unified Design Summer Internship in our Richmond, Virginia studio!  Our program is developed for students of advanced standing who possess the design talent, work ethic, and creative passion that we value at 3north. We were pleased to welcome Joon Kang (2nd year Architecture) from Virginia Tech, Bonnee Grennon (3rd…

3North’s Annual Cross-Continental Design Experience was one for the books. Averaging 30,000 steps, 15 miles of walking and running, and 20 flight of stairs climbed, this was a typical day for participants. Designer, Lisa Clark, was in California last week studying great design around our San Francisco office with principal, Morgan Pierce. Spending time outside…

3North’s Andrea Almond, was a part of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden panel discussion for “Restoring Nature’s Relationships” with Author, Doug Tallamy, talking about why our yards and gardens are an essential part of the ecosystems that sustain us. You can use a new tool for identifying native plants in our areas which ranks them…

3North’s Unified Design Summer Internship has begun! We are pleased to welcome Lindsey Rullman (4th year Landscape Architecture student from Penn State), Bonnee Grennon (3rd year Interior Design student from Virginia Tech), and Joon Kang (2nd year Architecture student also from Virginia Tech). Yesterday, we visited a site for one of residential projects underway in…

3North just wrapped up it's 2018 Summer Design Internship in our Richmond, Virginia studio! Our program is developed for students of advanced standing who possess the design talent, work ethic, and creative passion that we value at 3north. We were pleased to welcome Megumi Kamiya (4th year Landscape Architecture) from Virginia Tech, Meghan Jones (3rd Year…

We recently had the pleasure of exploring the design for a new home with a friend who, as it happens, is an accomplished graphic designer and former San Francisco office mate. The challenge posed to us was create a simple, modern, and distinctive home redolent of the humble agrarian buildings dotting the nearby Kansas landscape,…

Taking part in the 3North Cross-Continental Design Experience, architects Ed Pillsbury and Patrick McMinn were in California recently studying great design around our San Francisco office with principal, Morgan Pierce. Spending time offline, they visited multiple sites around the city to expand their understanding of landscape architecture. Below are some highlights from the trip as…