"The firm was celebrated for 'transforming overlooked landscape project sites into vibrant environments that stimulate the senses and unify communities'... That is certainly true of Harwood Park, an urban oasis that deftly incorporates and activates the historic architecture that surrounds it, forming an appealing place for public events and play"

Christine Ten Eyck, designer of downtown's Harwood Park, wins National Design Award

We are honored to be a part of the 2026 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award winners! Thank you to the jury for selecting our firm and believing in our mission.

"Ten Eyck Landscape Architects (TELA) has spent nearly three decades creating ecologically restorative outdoor spaces that foster community healing. Based in Austin, Texas, with origins in Phoenix, Arizona, founder Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA and her fourteen-person studio take a regional approach to the landscapes of the American Southwest, sparking conversations around pressing ecological issues through people- and place-based design. Drawing from extensive experience and intimate environmental knowledge, TELA transforms overlooked landscape project sites into vibrant environments that stimulate the senses and unify communities, prioritizing native plant species, water harvesting technologies, and durable materials expressed through form, color, and texture. Their approach combines ecological sensitivity with beauty and inclusivity, creating landscapes that are resilient, accessible, and deeply rooted in history and community. "

Christy Ten Eyck is a 2025 Judge for the Austin Green Awards!

“Now in its 10th year, the Austin Green Awards underscores the remarkable promise of design to positively influence what Austin’s future will be – doing so is in the hands of every person on every project team, to elevate practice to address the urgent environmental, health and social challenges of today and tomorrow. ”

How passion, perennials and great design inform our visionary landscapes of the future.

Join us for an engaging webinar featuring two esteemed landscape designers as they explore the latest trends in innovative garden design. This session will delve into the intricacies of plant selection and biodiversity, addressing the challenges posed by various site conditions while emphasizing sustainable practices and maintenance strategies. The projects discussed are all featured gardens in the recently released book, Visionary: Gardens and Landscapes for Our Future. Attendees will have ample opportunity to submit questions for the speakers and the event will be moderated by PPA Regional Director, Chris Fehlhaber.

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"The natural landscape is a key element of the design, with landscape architecture by Texas studio, Ten Eyck, who worked with The John Fairey Garden in Hempstead for several years to cultivate a collection of complimentary plants for the hotel’s grounds, including eyelash sage, dwarf rock palm and blue rabbit’s foot fern."

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Watch the recording and download the design packet at the links below!

Landscaping for Resilience - Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes

Dallas-Fort Worth - Native Garden Designs

Tune in virtually at the link below!

https://tradingnotes.archpaper.com/designing-public-space-social-forums-and-sustainable-materials-for-public-landscapes/

Rush collaborates with award-winning Texas landscape architecture studio, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects (TELA), to lead the adaptive re-use of our historic South Austin property into a seven acre nature reserve, bar, kitchen and racquets club.

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“We were blown away by this project, setting a very high bar. It did so much with and celebrated the challenges, elevating them to be wonderful, beautiful elements that became the focal points of design. We want to visit this place! It’s such a celebration of what’s possible with smart design – a holistic, resilient approach that respects the site’s ecology without too heavy a hand.”

“Kingsbury Commons is a case study in constrained jubilance – every constraint was seen as opportunity; they didn’t leave anything for granted.”

“This is an excellent project that balances architecture, planning, landscape, community – thoughtfully and precisely, with a light touch on the site, and integrates all the elements that the Austin Green Awards represents.”

https://www.atxgreenawards.org/#/

Join TCLF and Christine Ten Eyck October 14, 2023 to witness how a close collaboration between clients, architects, landscape architect, and contractor transformed a tired residential property with a forlorn pond into a vibrant, varied landscape showcasing the beauty and versatility of native plants and local materials.

https://www.tclf.org/garden-dialogues-2023-san-antonio-tx

Image Credit: Paul Hester

Browse through the preliminary plan presentations for Garison Park improvements.

Virtual Showcase — Buda Bonds 2021

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“The campsite demonstrates our commitment to share more broadly with our community in ways that serve groups while protecting the land for future generations,” says Andrea Mellard, executive director of the Shield Ranch Foundation. “In a rapidly urbanizing region, it’s increasingly important to provide outdoor experiences to promote health, connection and moments of wonder.”

https://sustainablesites.org/good-sites-design-leads-happy-campers-shield-ranch

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With TELA at the helm, this collaborative park restoration project has continued to blossom.

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/12/29/ten-eyck-austin-pease-park-revitalized/

Interested in what went into the redesign of Kingsbury Commons? Check out this recent article, featuring our very own Stephanie Saulmon, to learn more.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-06/austin-s-oldest-weirdest-park-has-a-new-secret-weapon

Check out our winning submissions along with the other inspiring design projects.

https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/the-2022-american-architecture-awards/

Learn more about the project's complexities and how those contributed to the enhancement of this campus district.

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Learn more about what went into the design to make this project successful.

https://www.atxgreenawards.org/2022-awards.html#/

Learn more about the centers design and goal to improve public education and connect with nature.

https://austin.uli.org/events/uli-austin-awards/2022-impact-awards-projects/

Read more about the sites history and future as a year-round nature immersion camp.

https://www.shieldranch.com/shield-ranch-celebrates-grand-opening-for-the-campsite-at-shield-ranch/

Read more about the Sustainable SITES Initiative and how Kingsbury Commons helps foster a healthy, sustainable community here in Austin:

https://www.austintexas.gov/news/kingsbury-commons-project-pease-park-awarded-sites-gold-achievement-landscape-sustainability

A rain garden and ‘ghost mammoths’: The last of four downtown Dallas parks will be the most playful!

Check out the Dallas Morning News article about Harwood Park!

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/commentary/2021/09/23/a-rain-garden-and-ghost-mammoths-the-last-of-four-downtown-dallas-parks-will-be-the-most-playful/

Kingsbury Commons at Pease Park was recently featured in Sightlines Magazine!

"Two chairs and a green sponge: Designed by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, the new Kingsbury Commons in Pease Park is already the fabric of Austin."

A look into the recent 2019 Texas ASLA Merit Award winning project Laity Lodge with Christine Ten Eyck.

View the full article here.

TELA's Plaza & Cellars at Pearl Brewery is one of thirteen real estate development projects from around the globe—eight from the United States, two from Canada, one in Europe, and two from Asia— that have been selected as winners in the 2017–2018 Urban Land Institute Global Awards for Excellence.

Read more about the project and the other award winners here.

"The new landscape provides the UTEP community with beautifully designed and detailed plazas, lawns, water features, pedestrian ways, and plantings, all displaying the regional and ecologically responsive aesthetic for which Ten Eyck’s firm has become known."

TELA's University of Texas at El Paso Campus Transformation Project is featured in the January 2017 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Read the full article here.

"The transformation of the UTEP campus is probably one of the most life-changing projects the region has recently undertaken. The project has impacted not only the life of every campus visitor and every student currently enrolled at UTEP, it affects every generation of UTEP students to come, as well."

El Paso has benefited from a renewed investment in its civic spaces, including the University of Texas at El Paso Campus Transformation Project. Read more about the city's recent developments in the November/December issue of Texas Architect.

TELA's Floating the Waller project received an Honorable Mention in the Temporary Installation category of The Architect's Newspaper 2016 Best of Design Awards.

"Uniquely situated at the U.S.–Mexico border, the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) serves over 23,000 students per year. It also figures prominently in the greater Paso del Norte community. So when the decision was made to transform the asphalt-laden, car-centric core of the campus into an inviting living landscape, both communities benefited."

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"Parks for Downtown Dallas recently sat down with Christine to learn more about how she sees Harwood Park enriching the lives of Dallas residents now and into the future." Read the interview here.

"From the Latin specere (“to look”), specimen trees are designed to prompt garden visitors to stop and stare. They can be a big investment of time, effort and money. Are they worth it?"

Read Christy Ten Eyck's take on the use of specimen trees for Gardenista in the full article here.

"The reuse and rehabilitation of extant infrastructure is creating innovative and inspiring new sites, and spurring a renewed civic aspiration for design excellence" in San Antonio, including TELA's recent design work at the San Antonio Botanical Garden and The Plaza and Cellars at Pearl Brewery.

Read the full article here.

"To illustrate this year’s forecasted landscaping trends, the ASLA released a dossier of photos from properties that already include some of the elements mentioned in the survey. In place of lush, maximalist gardens and fountains, there’s a good deal of cool, sculptured minimalism."

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"In a recent interview posted on The Dirt, the Texas-based landscape architect Christy Ten Eyck talked about what she considers the "beauty of drought."

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In an interview, Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA, argues that water is so precious we must design ways to protect it.

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Even though it runs right through the downtown area of Austin, Texas, Waller Creek tends to go largely unnoticed in the daily lives of local residents. And it doesn't suffer only for a lack of attention: over the years, the 2.4 km waterway has had to face pollution, erosion and periodic flooding.

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Ten Eyck Landscape Architects to debut their light installation titled, "Floating the Waller" at the 2015 Waller Creek Show. www.creekshow.com

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Nestled in the Medina River valley of the Central Texas Hill Country, this ranch derives its beauty from its peninsular setting at the convergence of a natural spring and hill country creek. The open-air layout of the new ranch buildings—combined with terraced gardens, water and fire features...

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DoSeum extends beyond children. It is a testament to and a powerful symbol of our vibrant city."

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Visit the healing gardens and paths designed by Ten Eyck|Studio Outside Landscape Architects, as you tour the New Parkland hospital via@YouTube

Ten Eyck / Studio Outside joint ventured providing landscape architecture for this LEED Gold facility. Read the full article here

Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc. provided landscape architecture for the new "...cutting edge children's museum."

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Ten Eyck Landscape Architects will lead the 7.8 acre expansion of the The San Antonio Botanical Garden beginning this summer.

Read Rivard Report Assistant Editor Joan Vinson's full article here.

Home & Garden Editor, Tracy Hobson Lehmann interviewed Ten Eyck's Cameron Campbell. In the interview, Campbell provides incite behind the plan for the "8-acre expansion that aims to reinforce messages of environmental stewardship and health and wellness."

Lehmann writes "The plan, created by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects of Austin, will transform a strip of land along Funston Place that has served as parking overflow for the garden. The blueprints divide the space among an environmentally sensitive parking area and an entrance under a canopy of live oaks, a culinary garden with an outdoor demonstration kitchen and a family garden where caregivers and children can explore nature together. The target opening date is spring 2017."

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The El Paso Times calls the Centennial Plaza "a great addition to UTEP campus."

"The plaza feels peaceful, a great improvement for students at a university that sometimes can be very stressful," said Blanca Aguilar, 25, a junior psychology major.

Read full article here.

Finishing touches completed in time for grand opening Saturday, April 18 from 10am-12:30pm. Photo courtesy of Jordan Foster Construction

"The highly anticipated opening of the hotel is due in part to the high profile Austin design collaboration of Dick Clark + Associates and the Michael Hsu Office of Architecture. Interior design is being handled by Studio MAI and landscape architecture by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects." Read Jan's full article here.

Ten Eyck worked with Pollen Architecture to develop an all-faiths meditation garden, chapel remodel and ministry addition for Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel, the spiritual home of St. Edward’s University. "Outside the chapel itself is an environmentally-friendly water feature in the garden, where rain water is captured in the flume and pours into the seep. This feature, as well as the rest of the exterior space, was designed by Christine Ten Eyck and Luke Mich of Ten Eyck Landscape Architects."

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Ten Eyck received an Honor Award for West Texas Ranch.

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Experience the private gardens of Christine Ten Eyck as featured on "Central Texas Gardener" by KLRU-TV, Austin PBS. View 'the show' here.

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Ten Eyck provides expert advice regarding designing in arid landscapes in Erin Boyle's article for Gardenista! Read more here.

Erin Boyle's Marfa Edition of Gardenista features Ten Eyck's work at The Capri, an outdoor venue and gathering space for the Thunderbird Hotel in Marfa, TX.

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Ten Eyck is featured in a recent issue of El Paso Inc. highlighting our work on the Campus Transformation Project at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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Ten Eyck wins National Honor Award for the New Academic Campus at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus in Mesa, AZ. The Arizona State University (ASU) Polytechnic Academic Campus project consists of 21 acres of site work in association with five new classroom building complexes. The goal was to transform the barren site of the former Air Force base into a thriving Sonoran Desert campus for learning. A major large asphalt street that formerly flooded during rains was transformed into a permeable, water harvesting arroyo adjacent to new campus malls and courtyards, giving students and faculty a daily connection to nature and each other while celebrating the path of precious, ephemeral rain water on campus.

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Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc., one of four finalists to redesign Waller Creek in downtown Austin, will display their concept plans at several public venues through the end of September, 2012. Read full article by Jan Buchholz, Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal here.

Christine E. Ten Eyck presented a lecture May 23rd at Stanford University as part of their "Terra Nova" spring architecture/landscape architecture lecture series. She will also give a presentation to the ASLA San Diego Chapter on May 24th at 6pm in San Diego.

A new garden book, Private Paradise Contemporary American Gardens, by Charlotte M. Frieze, recently published by The Monacelli Press features two Ten Eyck designed residential gardens.

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Christine Ten Eyck's renovation of her Bridle Path garden has been published in Stephen Orr's new book 'Tomorrow's Garden: Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening'. His photography is beautiful and his writing and observations of the gardens across the country that he experienced is thought provoking. Printed by Rosedale, Inc.

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Developers will soon break ground on a 15,000-square-foot Independent Bank in Austin. McKinney-based Jim Wilson Architects was the designer for the project. The firm collaborated with Austin artist Lance Letscher and Ten Eyck Landscape Architects. Read full article here.