Offshoots Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary
Happy Anniversary Offshoots, Inc.! The new year marks the 5th Anniversary for Offshoots. Since 2012, the team has taken on over 115 installation and design projects amounting to 100 acres, and 18 planning projects totaling over 1,600 acres. Offshoots projects have...
Happy Holidays!
What a wonderful year! Offshoots kicked off 2016 in style with a retreat to Jay Peak, Vermont where we welcomed Rebecca, Shelby and Sam (the dog) to our design team and Joe B. (aka- ‘the other Joe’) and Adham to our installation crew. Kate’s PHYTO book won both...
64 Allandale Project – A Win for Climate Change Advocates in Boston
We're excited to be working with Merge Architects Inc. and Wondergroup on 64 Allandale, an important Net Zero community in Boston. The project was approved by the ZBA yesterday. A great win for climate change advocates in boston!...
Edible Landscapes – TED
This TED Talk is a few years old but is still as relevant as ever. Food is a universal language which makes it a great tool for getting people engaged in their landscape. Pam Warhurst presents her experience in getting edible gardening into the most unlikely of places...
Union Point Featured on Chronicle
“You know the old saying ‘use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without?’ That applies to hand-me-down clothing and to places.” Offshoots recently completed construction documents for an upcoming phase of LStar’s Union Point that will be located on the corner of...
Free Stormwater Workshop on Cape Cod
The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has sponsored a free stormwater workshop to exlplore the opportunity to integrate phytoremediation and phytotechnologies into stormwater design. Kate will be presenting with Brian Kuchar from Horsley Witten Group on opportunities...
Bomb-Spotting Plants?
Want to learn more about plants that could detect explosives? This is an older article, but we just found out about these potential plants that elicit responses when TNT is around: https://www.wired.com/2011/01/grow-your-own-bomb-detector We're interested in Jane...
Kate Presenting at Mayors Institute on City Design
Kate will be presenting at the Mayors’ Institute on City Design on Friday, 23 September 2016, in Miami Beach. The Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) is a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the American Architectural...
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Signage Project Installed
This summer Offshoots completed a comprehensive signage and wayfinding system for the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. The project included designing signage for camp property entries, regulatory road signs, welcome signs and wayfinding signs as well as...
PHYTO Book Reviewed in the Journal of Architectural Education
Review of PHYTO book just published in the Journal of Architectural Education. Thank you Frank Sleegers!! http://www.jaeonline.org/articles/reviews-books/phyto#/page1/