Green Barriers by Ramo!
Check out this green barrier by Ramo! We are always happy to find low carbon footprint alternatives to concrete, plastic, and unsustainable wood sourcing. This noise barrier looks like a promising alternative. Source:...
Hood Bike Park is in Landscape Architecture Magazine!
We are thrilled to find Offshoots’ work featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine (October 2022 issue)! Offshoots and Elkus Manfredi worked together to create Hood Bike Park, a phytoremediating bicycle hub and social space in Charlestown, MA and we are thrilled to...
Hood Bike Park is in Architectural Record!
It’s an honor to find Offshoots’ work featured in Architectural Record (5/2022 issue)! Offshoots and Elkus Manfredi worked together to create Hood Bike Park, a phytoremediating bicycle hub and social space in Charlestown, MA and we are thrilled to have received a 2022...
Help Save the Monarch Butterfly!
Did you know that as of July 2022, the Monarch Butterfly has been classified by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Endangered?! Threatened by habitat destruction and climate change, all surviving sturgeon species – also migratory, found across the northern...
Cable Mills Receives a BSA Design Award!
As part of a team collaboration with Merge Architects, the Cable Mills Modern Mill project received a 2021 award from the Boston Society of Architecture! The Cable Mills Modern Mill project is a new construction multi-family, 6-unit housing project in Williamstown,...
Phy2SUDOE Workshop: Phytomanagement for Soil Remediation
On October 6th, 2022 Interreg Sudoe Phy2SUDOE (funded by the European Union) will host it's 3rd Workshop: Phytomanagement for Soil Remediation and the Creation of Value. Soil contamination is a widespread problem in Europe with adverse consequences for biodiversity,...
Offshoots is in the BSLA Field Book this month!
Pick up a copy of the BSLA Field Book HOME issue! We are happy to help celebrate Lynn Wolff's legacy and Women's Lunch Place on Newbury Street in Boston by sharing an article written by Offshoots' Kate Kennen and Nelle Ward that was published in the HOME issue of the...
Staff Picks – Native Plants: Chionanthus virginicus
Chionanthus virginicus, White Fringe Tree. A beautiful small specimen tree with fragrant, fringy flowers, white fringe trees attract pollinators and birds and can tolerate drought, salt, and compaction. – Jiin Choi Photo Courtesy of Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center...
BSLA Inside/Out Tour Success!
BSLA's Inside/Out Tour at Hood Bike Park was a hit last Thursday! Principal Kate Kennen and lead designer Terry Kinsler took attendees around the park and described the design decisions behind the site's program, phytoremediation-focused plant communities, materials,...
PHTYO Day!
Pushing the field of phytoremediation forward on PHTYO Day! Phyto Day offers various demonstrations to prevent landfill chemicals from spreading! These scientists were the minds behind some of the case studies featured in Kate Kennen and Niall Kirkwood's book Phyto:...