PROJECTS

Civic

Cultural

Frautschi Family Learning Center At Olbrich Botanical Gardens

A three-decade legacy of award-winning collaboration between Saiki Design and Olbrich Botanical Gardens continues with the Education Center and Greenhouses, the garden’s newest addition.

Workplace

The Lighthouse at TruStage

A re-imagined campus center eliminates surface parking and vehicular circulation prioritizing pedestrian spaces and connections.

Civic

Urban Design

Open Space + Play

Stone Horse Green

Stone Horse Green is intended to be a year-round destination for all ages in the heart of downtown Middleton.

Cultural

Open Space + Play

Yerkes Observatory Site Development Plan

The Yerkes Observatory Site Development Plan reimagines a historic landscape for discovery, inspiration, and connection.

Campus

University of Wisconsin - Platteville Sesquicentennial Hall

Saiki Design provided a rigorous approach to planning and design that integrated teaching tools – areas for active research, monitoring, testing and evaluation – into a single, cohesive site and rooftop terrace.

Health

Workplace

SSM Health South Madison Campus

An expansion of the SSM Health Dean Medical Group’s campus created an opportunity for designers to uplift and address a community’s needs.

Civic

Madison Senior Center Courtyard

At the core of the project was the notion that the project embody the engagement and direction from community members and that it should function at its most basic level to serve the diverse physical, social and cultural needs of the community while simultaneously reflecting of the diversity of the City and neighborhood itself.

Housing

The Avenir

Roof terraces provide social spaces for residents, complete with grill stations, shade structures and outdoor fire tables.

Civic

Open Space + Play

River Block Park

The park features a network of organically curved walking paths through rolling, contoured mounds with seating nodes specifically sited and oriented to provide views of iconic buildings and the riverfront.

Workplace

Cultural

The Memorial Garden at Exact Sciences

The Memorial Garden features a native-inspired plant palette and custom-designed murals on metal panels depicting prairie landscapes and local bird species.

Workplace

UW Credit Union Headquarters

Green roofs provide the initial stage of stormwater capture and treatment and connect to cobble streambeds and planted depressions that crisscross the site, weaving their way through a protected alcove in the building’s layout that harbors a number of smaller patios and seating areas.

Civic

Urban Design

Bucyrus Commons

Amidst uncertain times, Saiki Design created a vision for a public plaza through remote engagement, creative design integration, and community resilience.

Housing

Workplace

LYRIC, ARDEN & The Breese

Vibrant streetscapes and lush rooftop terraces combine to create a community oasis along Madison's East Washington Corridor.

Workplace

WHEDA Headquarters at Archipelago Village

A collaborative vision melds industrial elements with contemporary urban design for pedestrian spaces and a rooftop terrace.

Cultural

MYArts

The MYArts space is a dedicated youth arts center in downtown Madison that seeks to inspire young people to discover, connect, explore and design.

Open Space + Play

Comiskey Park

Comiskey Park weaves the community's aspirations into a vibrant urban oasis in Dubuque's North End Neighborhood.

Urban Design

Civic

Transportation

State Street

In the heart of the city and bookended by the State Capitol and the University of Wisconsin lies State Street, perhaps one of the most visited places in all of Madison.

Campus

Civic

Cultural

Allen Centennial Garden Comprehensive Plan

The garden is something of a hidden treasure on campus. New and renovated entries open the garden visibly and physically to the surrounding campus uses and users.

Open Space + Play

Bee Branch Creek Restoration

Oriented to overlook the Bee Branch Creek low-flow channel, the amphitheater embodies many of the project’s goals and vision for multi-purpose, timeless spaces. The design team worked carefully to integrate accessible paths along with stairs and seating throughout the corridor.

Transportation

Urban Design

The Village Redevelopment

Careful attention was paid to the selection of streetscape materials that are compatible with architectural features in The Village as well as the natural elements found along the Menomonee River.

Health

Mercyhealth Javon Bea Hospital - Riverside

A 263-acre hospital campus for the Mercyhealth organization was designed and built in just over three years. It features massive swaths of restored prairie, walking paths, a green roof and rehabilitation play area, courtyard dining terrace and small, intimate seating areas.

Civic

Cultural

The Tower Garden at Olbrich Botanical Gardens

The rose garden is an extraordinary two-acre garden where a myriad of roses and colorful perennials are backdropped by fountains, intricate paving and a 30-foot tower featuring native stone and exquisite detailing.

Health

The Gardens of St. Mary's Hospital

The gardens are rich in layered, seasonal plantings with water features of bubbling stones and stream channels weaving physically and metaphorically through the space.

Urban Design

Civic

Elizabeth [Lisa] Link Peace Park

Elizabeth Link Peace Park received numerous accolades from the local media as well as an Excellence in Design award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Urban Design

Civic

The Edgewater Hotel

Travel + Leisure listed The Edgewater as one of the top properties in the world in large part because of its location along the shore of Lake Mendota with a prominent rooftop amenity deck offering breathtaking views and unique amenities.

Civic

Urban Design

State Capitol Promenade

The crown jewel of John Nolen’s original vision for the planning of Madison, State Capitol Promenade sits atop a knoll with Lakes Mendota and Monona on either side.

Health

UW Health University Hospital Hilary Grace Rooftop Healing Garden

This rooftop garden provides a place of relaxation, rejuvenation and a welcoming outdoor area for patients, family, friends and staff with sculptural features, shade structures and lush plantings.

Campus

Open Space + Play

University of Wisconsin - Madison Picnic Point

A natural stone council ring serves as the central gathering space; a place for storytelling and campfires and continuing conversations influenced by the University’s environmental ethic.

Civic

Cultural

Mitchell Park & The Domes Vision Plan

The National Trust for Historic Preservation to listed the Mitchell Park Conservatory Domes as one of America’s most endangered historic places, prompting a comprehensive operational strategy and vision plan for the destination and surrounding county park.

Urban Design

Hotel Indigo at Archipelago Village

Housing

Lark at Kohl

Two separate rooftop courtyards provide exterior amenity spaces for residents of this modern, vibrant housing development.

Open Space + Play

James Madison Park Development Plan

Located in the heart of the Isthmus, James Madison Park provides a destination for downtown residents and visitors alike. Its shoreline access to Lake Mendota is nearly unparalleled and it offers spectacular view and a peaceful atmosphere amid the vibrant downtown hustle and bustle.

Health

UW Health East Madison Hospital

The roofs were designed to serve as an extension of the site; an intensive green roof adjacent to the hospital’s cafeteria provides a looped path, seating, a shade structure and lush plantings.

Cultural

Christ Presbyterian Church

The idea for the playscape was initially conceived during a landscape planning process led by Saiki Design but funding priorities at the time were focused on completing the entry plaza and landscape portions of the plan.

Civic

Cultural

Olbrich Botanical Gardens

Saiki Design has been involved with planning and design at Olbrich Botanical Gardens since 1992 beginning with a collaborative comprehensive plan and numerous individual garden designs and renovations.

Housing

Seven27 at The Yards

Challenged by a highly urban site, the courtyard is constructed above the building’s parking structure but it seamlessly melds the built environment with the landscape beyond.

Health

Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center

The tower-like water feature is a sentinel at the entry to the hospital and anchors a modest contemplative garden where lush plantings and low limestone seatwalls embrace users and buffer the energy of the parking lots, drive aisles and front door.

Open Space + Play

The Brown Deer Living Room Project

“Containers Up” is a local vendor who retrofits and rents customized, repurposed shipping containers that occupied the site in a loosely organized arrangement called the “Oasis” to provide temporary food and beverage and activity spaces for DIY crafts, live music, and wellness classes. The success of this pop-up event led the design team to incorporate more permanently sited, renovated shipping containers into the final design.

Housing

Quarter Row at the Yards

Part of the historic Yards District, Quarter Row connects to other notable housing projects completed by Saiki Design in the same neighborhood and features an eclectic mix of vibrant social spaces, tree-lined walks and industrially derived details.

Campus

Carthage College Straz Science Center

The design embraces the College’s mission to advance innovative science education by creating outdoor demonstration, collaboration, and teaching spaces.

Workplace

Bell Labs Headquarters

One of the highest priorities of the project was to protect and preserve as many of the existing large, mature oaks that defined the vegetative structure of the site. The design team carefully detailed a patio that floats off of the building with a boardwalk with low-impact footings that winds through the lowland oak savanna while mitigating impacts to the intertwined matrix of oak roots.

Transportation

Urban Design

Monroe Street Plaza

Saiki Design worked through a series of design iterations during the public engagement process, integrating input from City staff and other stakeholders at each milestone. Early design options considered a wide range of functions, aesthetics, maintenance, education and messages and explored public art themes unique to the space.

Open Space + Play

Kaukauna Public Library Interactive Learning Garden

Recognizing the importance of nature and play in childhood development and an enrichment to the traditional library experience, the Kaukauna Public Library undertook years of initial design and fundraising to lay the groundwork for the Interactive Learning Garden.

Health

Mercyhealth Hospital and Medical Center - Walworth

The enhanced entry experience to this important regional medical facility became a contemplative garden space and the design team took cues from the forms and materials of the building’s architecture, translating those themes into water features, custom arbors and tactile pavements.

Campus

Open Space + Play

University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Human Ecology

The design team collaborated to select timeless, durable materials that reflect the rich character of the building.

Campus

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Davies Student Center

Extraordinary tree protection and landscape restoration plans were implemented to preserve a culturally significant Council Oak tree.

Cultural

White Oak Savanna Events Farm & Sanctuary Framework Plan

What began as a framework planning process to evolve a cluster of neglected agrarian buildings nestled amongst rolling hills in the Driftless region into an event destination expanded into concept plans for individual spaces and private gardens within the property.

Workplace

Green Technology, Training & Enterprise Center

Integrated bioretention and raingarden areas highlight the challenging topographic changes as they wind through the site’s major circulation pathways.

Campus

University of Wisconsin - Madison Dejope Residence Hall

Saiki Design played a leading role in designing the 28,362 square foot green roof which included decorative stone ballast, precast concrete pavers and diverse plantings. The green roof is visible from second-floor conference rooms and upper floors of private residential suites.

Workplace

Culver Franchising Systems Headquarters

The gorgeous prairie landscape embodies low-impact development principles and highlights adaptive storm water management.

Campus

Loras College Campus Plan

Saiki Design led a rigorous process of inventory and analysis, facilitating focus groups with students, faculty, staff and the steering committee. The result was a well-rounded campus plan that included immediate priorities and future-focused solutions.

Transportation

Verona Road Reconstruction

Low maintenance native landscaping featuring an abundance of ornamental grasses and deep-rooted perennials was utilized in medians and raised planters to further enhance the aesthetics of the Verona Road corridor.

Housing

Lucky Green Roof

The rooftop terrace retrofit provided a larger, more diverse and more interactive space in which new amenities were seamlessly integrated with existing, resulting in a completely reimagined rooftop terrace and lifestyle experience.

Campus

University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Nursing

Throughout the building, site and rooftop terrace, reclaimed artifacts from the original nurses’ dormitory serve as touchstones and tell the story of nursing education on campus.

Urban Design

Transportation

Civic

Vel R Phillips Plaza

The challenging geometry of the site, the need to safely usher an active streetcar line through the plaza on a diagonal and a long list of programmatic desires required the design team to work collaboratively in new and imaginative ways to design this catalytic urban plaza.

Civic

Cultural

The Thai Garden at Olbrich Botanical Gardens

The Thai Garden showcases a gifted sala, or pavilion, with a custom stone-lined reflecting pool surrounding the pavilion platform and a carefully curated selection of plant material to evoke the lush tropical landscapes of Thailand.

Campus

University of Wisconsin - Madison Carson Gulley

The project resulted in a number of infrastructure improvements and provided substantial site improvements in order to better accommodate overall programmatic and food service needs of the West Campus district.

Open Space + Play

West & East Blum Remediation and Open Space

The City of Dubuque received an EPA Brownfields Cleanup grant to fund the remediation and redevelopment of two underutilized city-owned parcels that form the gateway to the Washington Street neighborhood. Saiki Design led site planning and design efforts to re-envision the land as open space that integrates a city services building and connects to the Bee Branch Creek Restoration project.

Campus

Civic

University of Wisconsin - Madison Kohl Center

The Kohl Center is an icon of the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus and a centerpiece of the University’s Athletic Department.

Civic

Cultural

Middleton Community Veterans Tribute

The project site serves as a place of remembrance and recognition for all veterans and their families.

Transportation

Menomonee River Parkway

Saiki Design provided corridor-wide planting and landscape restoration for the reconstruction of this popular roadway that experiences high volumes of commuter vehicles as well as recreational pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

Housing

Ovation 309

Spectacular views of Lake Mendota and the State Capitol building dominate the outdoor terraces on the thirteenth floor.

Open Space + Play

Bee Branch Creek Restoration Open Space Plan

The project daylighted an existing storm sewer and created a linear corridor for stormwater management and conveyance that was envisioned as a useable and significant open space amenity for the neighborhood and City.

Transportation

I-41 Reconstruction

The reconstruction of a major interstate highway by sheer nature of its duration and impacts challenged the design team to look closely and specifically at each individual interchange. Carefully combining unique community identity features and themes with an overall corridor design delivered a project that is cohesive and yet reflective of each individual communities it accesses.

Transportation

Rest Areas 11 & 12

Rest Areas 11 & 12 are among the most heavily trafficked in the state, and planting design solutions took into consideration the volume of visitor traffic and WisDOT maintenance challenges at every stage of the design process.

Cultural

Taliesin Preservation Plan

The preservation plan required a significant effort to understand the theoretical under pinning sand history of the evolving residence.

Campus

Loras College Keane Hall

Keane Hall, built in 1913 and an icon of the Loras College campus, embodies a true reflection of the campus – its history and it’s special place atop the bluffs of Dubuque – and an exterior courtyard and patio renovation and expansion project now reflects the building’s significance and complements the historic architecture and campus identity.

Cultural

Temple Beth El

Temple Beth El represents a historic religious community situated along the mature, wooded flanks of Lake Wingra and the landscape architects were commissioned to design a terrace and improved, elegant entry with grand stairway and an accessible walk for the synagogue to better serve the needs of its community.