Brown, Richardson & Rowe, Inc., Landscape Architects and Planners , is honored to be selected as the leader of the winning team for the Providence Waterfront Design Competition. Our team is composed of dedicated and creative designers and engineers.

Brown, Richardson & Rowe, Inc., is located at 3 Post Office Square in Boston and is certified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise. It practices landscape architecture, urban design, planning and environmental analysis, and specializes in waterfront park planning, land reclamation, historic landscapes, streetscape improvements, transportation projects, community participation, and corporate and commercial projects.

The firm received the 2002 Urban Landscape Award from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for its work on the Bussey Brook Meadow Project at the Arnold Arboretum; the Massachusetts Historical Commission 2004 Preservation Award for the Restoration of Nathan Tufts Park in Somerville , MA ; the Brookline Preservation Commission Award in October 2004 for Hall's Pond Sanctuary Restoration. Three awards have been received for the work in Lowell : a Federal Design Achievement Award in 1995 for the Lowell Performance Pavilion in Boarding House Park; the 1992 "Excellence on the Waterfront" Top Honor for the Lowell Canalway; and an AIA Citation for Excellence in Urban Design in 1990 for Jack Kerouac Park . The firm was also awarded a Citation of Merit by the "1995 Best Accessible Design Awards" Jury of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the Berklee School of Music; the 1995 Pride in a Quiet Corner Award from the Northeast Connecticut Visitors District for the Quinebaug River Trail Park; and a Boston Society of Landscape Architects' Honor Award in January 2000 for the work on Spectacle Island in the Boston Harbor.

Brown, Richardson & Rowe's work on Boarding House Park in Lowell was published in the October 1991 Architectural Record , and the work on manufactured soils for Spectacle Island, which was the repository for the fill from the Third Harbor Tunnel in Boston, was the subject of an article in the August 1997 Landscape Architecture . An article in the June 1999 Landscape Architecture featured the firm's eighteen years of urban landscape reclamation expertise.

Cornelia (Nina) Brown, Landscape Architect, Massachusetts Registration #740

Nina Brown , the team leader, has been a practicing landscape architect for 31 years. She was a founding partner in 1981 of Brown and Rowe, now Brown, Richardson & Rowe, Inc. She earned a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Harvard College , magna cum laude in 1971.

Nina's experience includes a variety of public waterfront park and transportation projects such as the Memorial Drive Rehabilitation project on the Charles River in Cambridge , MA ; Bremen Street and Memorial Parks in East Boston , MA and the Historic Parkways Preservation Treatment Guidelines. Other major design projects include: the Quinebaug River Park , Killingly Connecticut; Constitution Beach Rehabilitation, East Boston , MA ; Bussey Brook Meadow and footpath in the Arnold Arboretum; Boarding House Park in Lowell National Historical Park and Manchester , NH , Riverfront Park System Master Plan in the Amoskeag Millyard.

Nina is the Vice President of the Arboretum Park Conservancy, former Commissioner of the Brookline Parks and Recreation Commission, and a member of The Trustees of Reservations Board of Directors and Historic Resources Committee.

ALISON G. RICHARDSON, Landscape Architect, Rhode Island Registration #354

Other Registrations

Massachusetts #658
Connecticut #976
CLARB #3200

Alison Richardson , the lead designer, has been a registered landscape architect for almost 27 years and, for the past 16 years, a principal at Brown, Richardson & Rowe, Inc., Landscape Architects and Planners. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1976. She is a native of Needham , born at Wilson Farm at 75 Wilson Lane in 1952, and spent most of her childhood in Brookline , Massachusetts . Her great-grandfather was the noted architect Henry Hobson (“HH”) Richardson, designer of Boston 's Trinity Church , who died in 1886. Her grandfather, Fredrick Leopold William Richardson, son of HH, was also a notable architect, and her grandmother, Anne Blake, was a landscape gardener and resided until the 1930s in an estate Frederick designed off South Street . Alison's father, Joseph Priestly Richardson, was a principal architect from 1965 until 1978 at Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, the architectural firm that HH began in the 19 th century in Brookline .

Alison's experience has centered on public work - parks, waterfront parks, and transportation and restoration projects - with additional private corporate and institutional design work. The largest landscape design projects of her career have been Spectacle Island, Logan Airport Roadway Landscape, Memorial Park Expansion, and Bremen Street Park in East Boston are truly giants of construction that will benefit citizens for decades to come.

Joanne Hiromura designed the play equipment and is known for her imaginative, custom site specific play equipment.

Sung Tae Cho prepared all the renderings of the Providence Waterfront Park designs. He also created the water molecule sculpture and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Dan DeLongchamp prepared most of the boards for the competition. He is currently a senior at the University of Massachusetts .

About FST
Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc. (FST) provided invaluable urban design and technical support to the team. They are engineers, planners, and scientists in the classic tradition. Since 1914, they have responded to the challenges of their clients' needs and operational requirements with effective engineering solutions. Many FST professionals have contributed technical innovations to the engineering community through the publication of technical papers.

Decades of experience in a wide range of engineering and planning disciplines are a source of pride and energy to the firm. The contemporary practice of engineering requires complicated technology and a degree of interpersonal sensitivity far greater than even a generation ago.

Today's engineers must be diplomats. Quite simply, people are becoming more involved in everything that affects their surroundings. From a concerned group of neighbors to a public review board, they know that the engineer's craft bears a direct relationship to the way they live their lives. They want to see the person who is creating solutions face to face. They want to express their points of view early in the design process.

At FST, every professional is readily available. That includes the Principals, who are also working engineers and directly accessible. Service is more than fulfilling a contract. Service is giving their best to serve the client best.

Dean L. Groves, PE, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fay, Spofford & Thorndike of Burlington and Boston , MA , is a registered Professional Engineer with more than 32 years of experience in planning, permitting and design of public infrastructure projects.  He received the BS degree in Civil Engineering in 1974 from Lowell Technological Institute and the MS degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University in 1986.  His specialties include planning and permitting for major linear projects as well as for site development activities, and management of multi-disciplined design teams for public parks, transportation facilities, and urban revitalization projects.  He is currently the Principal-in-Charge of engineering design and construction phase services for the Wharf District Parks project as an integral part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway atop the Central Artery in Boston, and for the reuse of 200 acres of brown fields straddling the Malden River in Malden, Medford and Everett, MA, which will include substantial public parkland along this natural resource.  He was also involved in environmental planning and permitting for several National Park Service projects in New England .

Keelia Wright has been a planner with Fay, Spofford and Thorndike since fall of 2005. She received her undergraduate degree in Urban Design and Architectural Studies from New York University and her Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University . Her professional experience has covered a wide range of experiences, including community-based planning, population analysis, economic research, transportation planning and master planning. Keelia is recent Providence transplant, an occasional Waterfire volunteer and a Fox Point Community Garden member. Keelia's knowledge of Providence was invaluable to the team.

Brown Richardson & Rowe, Inc.
Landscape Architects and Planners
3 Post Office Square
Boston , MA 02210
T: 617-542-8552
F: 617.542-8517
nbrown@brownrowe.com

Fay, Spofford & Thorndike
15 Broad Street
Boston , MA 02109
T: 617.723.8882
F: 617.723.9995
kwright@fstinc.com