The Oregon Clinic recently complete this new Ambulatory Surgical Center in Newberg, Oregon. The landscape approach for this clinic was to create feature gardens including a viewing garden with a dry creek bed and lush plantings adjacent to the lobby seating area, numerous storm water swales with native planting and flowering trees and adaptive plants…

This was a Providence Tenant Improvement (TI) project that triggered code compliance up to $55k for the landscape and screening. The project included the evaluation of all existing landscaping and its comparison the City of Portland code requirements. It was determined the South and West property lines failed to meet screening and street tree requirements.…

The landscaping for this Columbia Memorial Hospital Cancer Center included creating Healing Garden with an artist memorial mural, a small water feature, and seating surrounded by lush plantings is directly adjacent to the main entrance of the center, a unique viewing garden outside the lobby, and streetscaping to gain the approval of the City of…

Bold swaths and a meandering pathway within the Entry Gardens respond to the architecture of this new 19,300 s.f. Medical Office Building within the Tillamook County Hospital Campus.  The 1.09 acre project site also includes a secondary Helicopter Landing Zone in the adjacent parking lot.  The plant palette includes a mix of common seaside trees,…

The Kaiser Permanente Gateway Medical Office Building is a big-box retail re-use project within City of Portland Pedestrian Enhancement and design development overlay zones, pursuing LEED Gold in Healthcare and designed to achieve the objectives of Kaiser’s Total Health Environments Initiative.  The Staff Respite area includes varied seating opportunities around a bocce ball court for…

Our goal for this medical center project was to retain as much of the existing, native vegetation on site as possible and to incorporate a majority of native plants into the new landscaping. Site features included a “stormwater feature”, which will replicate a natural stream bed with multiple water falls; a healing garden located adjacent to the main lobby, which will serve as a viewing garden and outdoor gathering space; and an outdoor patio space for staff. The project is currently pursuing LEED Silver.

Our firm was asked to step in to provide re-imaging of an existing central courtyard which was viewed from a Patient Waiting Room on one side and the Staff Break Room. The challenge was to provide a design solution that screened the Staff use area from the Patient view.  We removed the existing paving and…

Laurel Macdonald Bonnell has worked on the Willamette Falls Hospital Campus on numerous building expansion projects over the past ten years.  She was asked to get involved with the Children’s Center and chose to donate all the initial design services to submit for Design Review in Oregon City, OR. The two signature gardens were then…

We designed the site landscaping and Entry Gardens for the Ambulatory Surgery Center to provide an outdoor healing environment, following the established landscape standards of the Comprehensive Master Plan.

Macdonald Environmental Planning was asked to compile a comprehensive master plan for the 50 acre campus of Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, which involved developing guidelines by which all future development would use for their design work. Standards were developed for site lighting, wayfinding, healing garden guidelines, tree planting and general planting requirements, paving…