View fullsize Building on our growing presence in North Carolina and deep roots in Charlotte’s design and planning community, Ground Control is passionate about shaping meaningful public places across the region. At Ground Control, we love the public realm a
View fullsize At Ground Control, we DRAW 🤓 and are DRAWN to landscapes, that don’t lock themselves into a single identity. The best outdoor spaces are transformative. Like the great Campo de’Fiori in Rome, spaces can shift with the rhythm of the day.
View fullsize The stillness of the reflection pool contrasts the lotic power of the mighty Hudson River. The pool is a precise incision into a soft arboreal field. A moment of human modernity in untainted forest. Inspired by the great swimming ponds of the estates
View fullsize Thursday Sketching on a New Hospitality Project in Upstate New York. #willsketches
View fullsize This weather has us dreaming of afternoons at Beta Bar. Stay warm out there!
View fullsize Fridays are for Sketching // From concept sketch to initial renderings, a Mediterranean Revival fireplace and overhead festoon lights create a flexible outdoor room for a very special client to entertain at their breathtaking Mediterranean Revival Vi
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View fullsize NEW YEAR:NEW FACES. MEET PIERRE! Pierre has spent his career contributing to the design and documentation of high-end estates, civic spaces, and design-build projects. His work spans conceptual design, detailed planting and hardscape plans, 3D visua
View fullsize From Zoom conversation sketch to digital maquette, meet variations of our Fall Line Bench for Justison Landing Park. The stacked stones read less as furniture and more as a quiet layers of geology. They feel discovered rather than installed. Compose
View fullsize As the year winds down, we’re grateful for the people and places that shape our work. From our fireside to yours — here’s to another year of crafting landscapes that feel like HOME: warm, grounded, and alive with light. TIME, like
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View fullsize The future southerly view of the Boston Mountains from the new classroom building, on the brow of the Oak Ridge, for the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. We are excited to announce today we kicked off design with the College
View fullsize Lighting Mockup at our Green House Garden with our friends @unonovesette.lighting @anthonyimbiscuso
View fullsize Construction progresses at Windgate Galleries at the University of Arkansas. In collaboration with our friends at Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects and @polkstanleywilcoxarchitects
View fullsize Mullens Plaza | Arkansas Tech University // In collaboration with @smithgroup and @mbl_architecture, Ground Control is reshapeing the center of campus into a civic space for the next generation. A new bosque of Parrotia and Georgia oak defines the pl
View fullsize We’re in the field this week checking on projects and enjoying the ephemeral qualities of autumn…the shadows are long and the crispness in the air casts light differently. There is a fleeting sense of urgency as winter whispers in the wi
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View fullsize A windy site visit to Philadelphia projects old and new - Happy Halloween!
View fullsize The rooftop pollinator meadow is in full effect at the recently completed Amy Gutmann Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. The 12,000sf elevated landscape is the first of its kind in Philadelphia and provides a much needed respite for the birds an
View fullsize Early morning sketch complete. Heading to the airport, we are southbound to see our friends and colleagues at @nationalasla in New Orleans. #groundcontrol #willsketches #asla2025 #landscapearchitecture