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Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
West Lake ResidenceSkaneateles, NY
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Initial Concept
Working with Meyer and Meyer Architects’ redesign and expansion of a late 19th-century lakeside house, Pressley Associates helped the owners achieve a waterfront home with a Newport mansion grandeur.
Site size:
2 acres
Program:
Residential
landscaping
Services:
Site planning,
landscape design
Completion:
2012
Client:
Meyer and Meyer
Architects
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Lasting Impact
The entire property slopes down toward the lake at an average 14% grade. Terraces and walls create and differentiate
usable, level areas, each with its own theme and purpose. These landscape spaces are divided into garden “rooms” with
distinctive characteristics and aesthetic elements.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Water Garden and Lawn Terrace: Before
An underutilized back yard fronted by an undistinguished ranch dwelling received a limestone balustrade, an evergreen
hedge, a limestone/wood pergola, and a koi pond fountain court to be reframed and revived as...
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Water Garden and Lawn Terrace: After
...the Water Garden, an ornamental pleasure ground with the style, grace and haute couture of a French country
manor landscape. The pond is home to water lilies and lotuses.
Overlooking the Water Garden and West Lake is the Lawn Terrace, a green patio situated directly off the house’s ground
floor, enabling the owners to step out and enjoy their garden of delights.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
The ‘Eclipse’
Accessible by an arbor-covered passage (the “Eclipse”) through the Water Garden’s tall
evergreen hedge is...
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Ellipse Garden
...the Ellipse Garden, designed for the owners’ everyday use, and for special events.
A gently bowing fieldstone grotto, topped by a limestone balustrade and flanked by
staircases, adds picturesque pomp.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Driveway
The driveway follows a route that reveals a sequence of views of the new landscape,
a row of hornbeam trees bordering the lake, a privet hedge...
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Porte-cochère
...and the extraordinary house. Magnolia trees grace the end of the driveway,
complementing the nature inspiration of the Arts-and-Crafts porte-cochère.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Wildflower walk
Along the southern edge of the lawn is a meandering path through a lovely natural area leading to the water’s edge, profusely
planted with peonies and other perennials for a wildflower effect.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Perennial beds
Bulbs fill the perennial beds in the spring and blossom into hydrangeas, peonies, black-eyed Susans, ornamental grasses
and additional plants in the summer, changing the landscape color with the seasons.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Flowers and fire
Beautiful annuals enrich a limestone fire
pit. A rest on its bench offers a
breathtaking view of West Lake.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Cliffs of color
Perennials splash the slopes of the grotto staircases with
cliffs of color.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
Night . . .
Accent lighting highlights the architectural and natural elements of the Water Garden and its trellis, unifying the organic and
the geometric, the natural and the manmade, as a total visual experience.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
. . . and day
The porte-cochère takes
in the panorama of the
driveway landscape,
unifying
the structure’s natural
attributes — random
ashlar fieldstone,
curvilinear wood — with
the nature that unfolds
before it.
Sunlight shadows
the trellis walkway
with the crisscross
pattern of the
overhead slats and
rafters, giving the
promenade a
sense of shelter
and order as a
contrast to
nature’s open
ramble.
Pressley Associates Landscape Architecture • Site Planning • Urban Design • Historic Preservation
1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 27 Cambridge, MA 02141 t 617-491-5300 f 617-491-7502 www.pressleyinc.com
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