AUSTEN ASSOCIATES

Austen Associates are a team of landscape architects who work to create both distinctive and environmentally sustainable landscapes with the level of designed intervention gauged by our clients' aspirations and in accordance with what is appropriate to any particular site and its environment... Our philosophy with regard to landscape stems from a desire to both enrich peoples' lives and to minimise our impact on the natural world and in this regard the practice will always attempt to introduce principles of sustainability in to its designs. This includes, for example, selection of landscape materials that have a reduced environmental impact throughout their lifecycle and designing planting schemes utilising native species that will reduce maintenance inputs. For detailed building schemes, measures, such as, on-site grey-water collection and sustainable drainage systems are seen as integral to contemporary landscape design... We strive to design places and landscapes that are in-..

Also known as: Austen Associates Landscape Architecture

Primary location: Wicklow