Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture has grown from four to five staff members this year. The firm specializes in parks, art parks, historic landscape restoration, ecological restoration, interpretive centers, civic and institutional landscapes.

“Our marketing effort to date has mostly focused on invitations to propose, and not more generic efforts,” said principal Charles Anderson. “We will be expanding our efforts into other parts of the country later this year ... certainly the Pro Parks Levy has been a great source of work for us. Another niche that has been good for us (this year) is residences.”

Projects:

• Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, a collaboration with Weiss/Manfredi Architects, is a showcase for art in a former brownfield. The site will be partitioned into outdoor “galleries.”

• Mineral Springs (Art) Park for Seattle Department of Parks & Recreation will draw visitors through a series of outdoor rooms with the work of artists. The project includes woodland restoration and improvements to the disc golf course.

• Discovery Park, 500 Area for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, is a forest restoration using the memory of the old barracks as a pattern for planting.

• Roxhill Bog for Seattle Department of Parks & Recreation is an urban wetland bog restoration in West Seattle. The Seattle Design Commission has commended this project for being “an ecologically sensitive design that redefines parkland in the 21st century.”

• Medina residence for Susan and Jeff Brotman includes contemplative tables of water, sculpture, tropical and native gardens, and a planted roof.