Our mission is to create original, beautiful and functional living spaces by enfolding intelligence and artistry in our designs. We consistently leverage the brilliant thinking and active imaginations of our team to create spaces that both surprise and delight those engaging with them. We strive for our spaces to garner community and social interaction and promote well-being.
We are pleased to partner with passionate clients whose objective of culturally significant city building ensures that ninety nine percent of our designs break through to fruition of construction.
We are privileged to work with co-operative teams who share our vision for the creation of holistic, sustainable urban design for the public realm.
Some firms push their own agendas – we push your best interests. We do that by listening and reacting. We listen to your goals and create something beautiful and unique just for you.
We don’t see restraints as limits, rather we see them as opportunities. We love creating unique solutions for your restraints.
Our exceptional customer service and boutique size allows us to work fast. We have an agile approach that allows us to be truly responsive.
We are personable. We ingrain ourselves in your team so we all work towards a common goal.
Large Scale Commercial Landscape Design
90%
Masterplanning of the Public Realm 55%
Urban Planning & Design 80%
Landscape Rendering 65%
Streetscape Design 95%
Sustainable Design 25%
Playground Design 75%
Urban Agriculture 69%
Permaculture 59%
Park Design 98%
Revitalization 88%
Team members realize their true potential in an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations.
From its inception in 1996, the design firm established their reputation through a broad range of institutional, commercial and residential projects, schools and university buildings.
The firm continues to expand and is designing projects of exceptional materials and quality, with a strong conceptual basis derived from the specific needs and aspirations of each client. Land Art Design Landscape Architects Inc has received many awards and looks forward to adding your project to our roster.
Jackie VanderVelde, BLA, CSLA, OALA, ALSA, SMA, GRP
Jackie is a graduate of the University of Guelph. With over 20 years of landscape design & planning experience, Jackie leads the team to design visionary and imaginative spaces in the public realms. Prior to starting Land Art Design Jackie focused on the built environments in Toronto for in both the public and private realm. Her international partnerships have spanned with globe including several years with a branch office overseas.
Jackie established Land Art Design in 1996 and in the intervening years has been awarded significant honours for her contribution to Canadian landscape architecture. Her current work expands on her agrarian roots with sustainable, restorative and productive landscapes.
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” ~Nelson Henderson.
Phone: 416 840 0039
jvv@ladesign.ca
Joaquin is a graduate of the University of Guelph.
LAND.ART.DESIGN. The name of the company perfectly sums up Joaquin’s personal and professional passions, which are projects at the intersection of landscape, artistic expression and problem solving through the design process. While attending the School of Environmental Designs at the University of Guelph he combined design theory with his love of art to produce markedly unique work.
Joaquin’s focus at LAND ART DESIGN is on producing site specific designs that are informed by the projects larger environmental, social and cultural contexts. He firmly believes in the power of landscape design to improve health and wellbeing as is excited by the potential role of permaculture in guiding sustainable practices in Landscape architecture.
Phone: 416 840 0039
joaquin@ladesign.ca
Audric is a University of Guelph graduate with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and an Associate Member of the OALA.
His public design ideals were strongly influenced by formative travels through Scandinavia, Turkey, Spain, and Morocco during a university exchange semester in Copenhagen, followed by further visits to Japan and Taiwan.
He is attracted to the convergence of thinking between Landscape architecture and other design disciplines and the merger of technical functions and aesthetics (the economy of design).
Phone: 416 840 0039
audric@ladesign.ca
If Architecture is the Heart of a city, than Landscape Architecture is its Soul.
Landscape Architecture is working with Nature, it is seeing the design develop and grow, mature and change, live and breathe. It is to see the big picture and to create future.
Landscapes make you dream, they make you wonder, and make you feel. They make you long for, or remember. They can make you happy, or sad. Landscapes let you breathe, reflect and think. – Creating Landscapes is creating Emotions.
Antje is the newest member of LAD and brings European and Canadian project experience to the team. Antje graduated 2006 with a Bachelor in Landscape Architecture from the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, Germany.
Growing up in rural Germany, Antje developed a strong passion for nature and the firm believe in the deep connection between nature and ourselves.
Her fascination for designing spaces for people and nature alike is shown/ evident/present through Antje holistic design approach and her desire to harmoniously integrate the natural and built environment.
Antje wants to create landscapes that touch people and that leave an impact on them.
Phone: 416 430 0039
antje@ladesign.ca
