Building in Park City? Then you’ve seen the outdoor space become the line that gets cut when the bids come in high. The season’s short, the snow is real, and the amenity gets whatever money is left. We’re the landscape architects who plan that space first, because up here the outdoor amenity is the room that leases the building.
Shown: White Pine Canyon, Park City · Concept rendering
You’re going to check, so here’s the straight list.
In Kamas, we were the landscape architects on the project team for the South Summit County Services Building, the Kamas Services Center. It won a 2018 ENR Mountain States Best Project for government and public buildings, and a 2018 UC&D Most Outstanding Project.
In Park City, Park Station Condos is built: the HOA open space between the condo buildings, with pools, hot tubs, lawn, site walls and fencing.
Park City Residence and White Pine Canyon are luxury home concepts we’ve drawn for Park City. Both are concepts.
What’s not on the list? A built Park City hotel or resort. We don’t have one yet, and we’d rather tell you than let you find out.
Resort, HOA and multifamily amenities in Park City
We’ve seen it play out. The building gets designed, the interiors get the budget, and the outdoor amenity gets designed last, in whatever space is left between the buildings. Then the bids come in high and value engineering goes after the outside first. The hot tubs shrink, the lighting goes, the planting thins out. What’s left is a lawn nobody uses.
In a ski town that’s an expensive mistake. Owners and guests judge a place by what happens outside: the walk back from the lift, the hot tub after a powder day, the fire on a cold night. That’s what people come back for.
So we flip the order. We plan the outdoor amenity with the building, cost it before we draw it, and fight for it through the bid. Resort, HOA or multifamily, the order’s the same.
See the hotel and resort work →Luxury homes in Park City
You picked the lot for the mountain and the light. Then the site plan shows up with a driveway, a patio and a lot of blank space. That blank space is most of your property.
We design the outside with the same care as the house: an arrival that feels like coming home, terraces that step with the grade, the spa and fire you’ll actually use in February, and planting that suits the mountain.
Park City Residence and White Pine Canyon are two of our Park City home concepts. If you’re building, bring us in while your architect is still placing the house on the lot.
See the luxury home work →Local conditions
Four things come up on every mountain project we look at. None of them are reasons to shrink the idea. They’re reasons to bring us in early.
Plows push it, roofs shed it, and the wind drifts it right where you planned the lounge. If snow storage isn’t drawn into the site plan, it ends up on the planting and the paving every winter. We draw it in from the first sketch: where it gets pushed, where it melts, and what can live under a pile until spring.
The warm months go fast up here. An amenity that only works in July sits empty most of the year. Covered space, fire, spas and heated decks where they earn their keep stretch it into the shoulder seasons and the deep winter, and those are the nights people remember.
Shared space between buildings gets used hard and maintained by committee. Pools, hot tubs, lawn, walls and fencing all have to hold up, stay affordable to run, and still feel like a reason to own there. We design for the board’s budget in year ten as much as for opening day.
Mountain sites move. Grades fall away, the view sits off to one side, and every winter the freeze-thaw cycle tests each paver and wall. We detail the walls, steps and paving for that from day one, so the outdoor space is still level and safe after a lot of winters.
Project types
Pools, spas, fire and the arrival, designed as the reason guests book. Our hotel and resort work lives on one page.
The shared space between buildings: pools, hot tubs, lawn and the walls that hold it together.
Landscape architecture on the project team for the Kamas Services Center in Summit County.
Mountain homes where the outside is planned as carefully as the house.
Recognition
Awards go to the whole project team. This is the Summit County project we were on.
FAQ
The one whose thinking you can see before you hire them. So here’s ours, straight: we don’t have a built Park City resort, and we won’t pretend we do. What we bring is how we design hotel and resort outdoor space anywhere. The pool, spa, fire and arrival get planned first, as the reason guests book, and costed before they’re drawn so they survive value engineering. Our hotel and resort work is on our Hotel and Resort Outdoor Spaces page. If that’s how you want your resort handled, let’s talk.
Yes. Luxury homes are half of what we do. Park City Residence and White Pine Canyon are two of our Park City home concepts. Both are concepts. The best time to call is while your architect is still placing the house on the lot, so the arrival, the terraces and the spa get designed with it.
We were the landscape architects on the project team for the Kamas Services Center, the South Summit County Services Building. That project won a 2018 ENR Mountain States Best Project for government and public buildings and a 2018 UC&D Most Outstanding Project. In Park City, Park Station Condos is built: the HOA open space between the condo buildings, with pools, hot tubs, lawn, site walls and fencing. We’ve also drawn two luxury home concepts there, Park City Residence and White Pine Canyon.
We design for the months most people write off. That means places to get warm (fire, spas, covered space and heated decks where they earn their keep), snow storage drawn into the plan, and paving and walls detailed for freeze-thaw. An amenity that only works in July sits empty most of the year.
Earlier than feels natural. The best time is schematic design, while the site plan, grades and big outdoor moves are still open. On a mountain site that also means before snow storage, drainage and the view get decided for you. Second-best time? Now. We’ve joined projects late before and made it work. We’d just rather build the wow in than bolt it on.
This is where most outdoor amenities lose. They’re designed last, so they’re the easiest thing to cut. We work the other way. Deep Dive pins a realistic cost range before anything gets designed, so the concept is ambitious and buildable from day one. Grand visions mostly die at bid time. Ours are costed before they’re drawn.
We’re biased, so test it yourself. Walk any place you admire up here and notice where people actually spend their time. It’s usually outside: the hot tub, the fire, the lawn between the buildings. That’s the room that leases the building. Treat it as leftover space and everyone can tell.
No. Our studio is in Sandy, Utah, and we work across the state and the US. We come to the site, walk it with you and your team, and stay involved through construction.
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