BHA Design Incorporated is a landscape architecture and planning firm established January of 1993. The firm size is currently nine full-time designers, three principals and one administrative assistant. BHA provides sign design, image development, landscape architecture, master planning, urban design, public process, entitlements and architectural illustration services to both public and private clients in a variety of settings.
Friends of preservation: City of Fort CollinsBHA Design and Edaw recently received a Friends of Preservation Honor Award from the city of Fort Collins.
BHA Design is recognized for "Design Innovation in the Revitalization of the Historic Trimble Court Alley and Tenney Court Alley."
Learn more about the
Tenney Court project here.
"The spirit of the elders has spoken. Just as we use the land to heal ourselves, we must in return heal the land" - Native American saying
We are dedicated to improving the state of the art in health care design. Therapeutic garden design and landscape is quickly becoming standard equipment in today's health care facilities. BHA Design is at the forefront of evidence based therapeutic landscape design and implementation.
Therapeutic landscape design is not limited to health care facilities only. Parks and urban spaces can also function as healing spaces. Therapeutic gardens can range from passive to active healing space. The simple disconnection from sterile, drab, stuffy interior working environments to organic, fresh and colorful open air environments can make all the difference in your stress level and improve your level of optimism. In the case of high stress hospital environments, accessible landscape spaces can afford doctors, nurses, staff, patients and family opportunities to recharge and reduce stress. When these spaces incorporate specific evidence based therapeutic design principals, the results can be impressive.
The effects of environment have long been appreciated by ancient cultures however the wisdom of the ages often escapes contemporary design and development. As therapeutic garden designers, we strive to address the healing benefits of the environment with every project that we work on.
Therapeutic design is one of our core values and it is our desire to implement evidence based, effective, sustainable and pleasant therapeutic design into every project, especially hospitals and elderly care facilities.
Last Friday, March 20, 09, M&R Fabricators installed five new high capacity on-street bike racks in downtown Fort Collins. M&R Fabricators teamed up with BHA Design to submit a proposal for the new bike racks several weeks ago. Fortunately we won the design competition and subsequently completed the design and construction of the five bike racks. The project was jointly sponsored by the City of Fort Collins and New Belgium Brewery. If you haven't seen these fun racks yet we recommend that you cruise to Old Town Fort Collins on your super cool cruiser bike and lock up to the new racks!
You can read more here:
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009903210310If you are interested in doing a similar project for your city or company please feel free to contact us and we'll be glad to help you out.
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3ToeStudio for custom site furnishings.
Who said that head walls look bad? We did. So we worked with the City of Fort Collins, Anderson Consulting Engineers and Ayres & Associates to develop a new approach to head wall design and aesthetics.
With the use of integral colored concrete and a custom form liner that was artistically created by Barb McKee, we were able to create unique and appealing forms that would otherwise look utilitarian and out of place in the naturalized environment of the CIPO stormwater system.
BHA Design specializes in working with engineers and city departments to create new and aesthetically appropriate solutions and alternatives to standard design problems. We are able to impliment the designed principles of landscape architecture into many design problems to create integrated, sustainable design solutions that reflect the natural context and cultural climate of a project and it's location.
Bruce Hendee has been selected as Chairman of the Colorado State University Design Review Board!
Bruce Hendee is a lead Principal at BHA Design; a landscape architecture design firm located in Fort Collins Colorado.
Let them know they've arrived! BHA Design offers project identification, environmental graphics and wayfinding system design. We specialize in landscape scale monument sign design, community gateway sign design, community signage system development, and community identification system design.
BHA Design's environmental graphics lead the way to your project's success!
An emerging trend in the healthcare industry is the incorporation of
evidence-based therapeutic gardens. As an added patient service therapeutic gardens can be incorporated at relatively low cost while adding measurable positive outcomes through appropriate treatment protocols. Virtually all patient populations can benefit from properly designed gardens. The ideal garden setting incorporates appropriate design strategies and is balanced with a Horticultural Therapist (HT). The HT interacts with physicians, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, cardiologists and other caregivers to develop treatment protocols that are appropriate for given patient populations. Therapeutic gardens are excellent for staff and visitor stress reduction as well. As little as three minutes in an outdoor garden space can provide lowered blood pressure and lowered pulse rate.
As a landscape architecture firm we focus on designs that are therapeutic, sustainable and fun. Each of these attributes adds direct value in a healthcare setting. Contact us today to schedule a presentation on the benefits of therapeutic garden design.
