World Landscape Architecture Month | Resource Round-Up
Landscape architecture is the ultimate pairing of nature and luxury living; it combines an artistic eye with the irreplicable beauty of the natural world to create landscapes, structures, and experiences that both delight and inspire. Today we have rounded up some of our favorite landscape architects from Chicagoland and the stunning works that they have designed in our city.
Christy Weber Landscapes
2900 W Ferdinand St
Chicago, Illinois
Christy Webber Landscapes is an award-winning full-service landscape provider and has tended to the lands of Chicago for over 30 years. They service some of the city’s most prominent landmarks: Soldier Field, Millennium Park, and Navy Pier, while still maintaining residential and community properties.
Groundwork Design
3618 W Wrightwood Ave
Chicago, Illinois
Groundwork is a landscape design studio and construction practice committed to the art of purposeful transformation. Groundwork creates well-built, site specific landscapes that unite with nature and inspire connection.
Himsben Design Studio
6136 N Clark St
Chicago, Illinois
Himsben Design Studio is a Chicago-Based Landscape Architecture Design and Build Firm, serving residential, commercial, and institutional clients throughout the city and beyond. With over 70 years’ combined experience in design, construction, and landscape architecture, their team delivers world-class, award-winning design and build services.
Heffernan Landscape Design
3737 W Agatite Ave
Chicago, Illinois
Established in 1994, Heffernan Landscape Design is a full-service design-build residential landscape company serving Chicago and the suburbs. They offer all phases of landscape design and their outdoor projects are recognized for their strong, clean geometry of stone hardscapes with lush plantings.
McKay Landscape Architects
5215 North Ravenswood Avenue #306
Chicago, Illinois
McKay Landscape Architects was founded by Michele McKay in 1982. They are certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise, practicing throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Their design experience scans a variety of project types and scales, including affordable, supportive and senior housing, universities, parks and private residences.
Rooftopia Chicago
4200 W Diversey
Chicago, Illinois
Rooftopia is Chicago’s favorite full-service, innovative rooftop garden, roof deck and landscape business. Their mission is to creatively and luxuriously transform the city’s rooftops with passion for green spaces, a flare for detail, and meticulous craftsmanship.
This post was originally published in 2022 and updated for 2023.