New Pictures of The Ponderosa Stables Project at South Mountain Park

This new public art project was funded by The City of Phoenix and is a mixture of desert landscaping, lighting, a living ocotillo fence, and new sculptural driveway gates. e group collaborated with artist Kevin Berry to use his hay bale concept as an amphitheater for this project. Many phoenix residents have rented a horse at South Mountain Park Ponderosa Stables, which has provided horseback riding to the public since 1985.

e group Project Construction Update - Ponderosa Stables @ South Mountain

Update of the Ponderosa Stables project at South Mountain Park. The concrete hay bale amphitheater was installed this week. We collaborated with artist Kevin Berry to use his hay bale concept as an amphitheater for the project and proposed the staggered arrangement of the bales. Each bale weights over 1500 lbs and has 3 integral color blends. They were cast with a form mold created by Kevin and have the textures of the hay and binding twine imbedded. The completed design will have brown stabilized granite in the plaza and terraces, local boulders for bookends of the seating arcs, a custom raised planter in the plaza that uses a horse trough for a seat wall, and has a 54” boxed salvaged specimen Blue Palo Verde  planted in the center of the trough.

e group mentioned in the October issue of Architectural Digest

e group is mentioned in the October issue of Architectural Digest that features a beachfront vacation house and guesthouse in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Our participation in the project included Landscape Architectural design and Construction. Catch a brief preview by clicking the following link:

October’s Architectural Digest - Open Air in Baja

Arizona Repuplic Article: Longtime e group project "Tovrea Castle" undergoing renovations to finally receive visitors

e group worked with the the City of Phoenix for many years on the Tovrea Castle Park Master Plan (Master Plan Update) Garden Restoration and Visitor Parking Lot. Read about the latest progress in this "Arizona Republic" article by clicking the following link:

Arizona Republic - AZCentral Article Link

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e group's starts landscape design work on Huidong Shanyue Resort Hotel in Huidong, China

This is a five star resort hotel located in the east coastal line of Huizhou, Guangdong province in China. The site is about 7 hectare and there are about 2,000 rooms and housing units on this property. Facing towards the beach and south sea of China, this hotel will be a destination for the day trip tourists in Guangdong to enjoy the beach, seafood and the fishery life. Preliminary design work was completed by our Scottsdale, Arizona and Shenzhen, China offices.

e group book recommendation...Desert Architecture

Excerpt from their website "Desert Architecture presents exciting and pioneering projects from the field of desert architecture, demonstrating that contemporary architecture can meet the unique challenges presented by torrid zones. Graphically illustrated with architects’ plans and numerous photographs, this volume shows that innovative architectural ideas can be successfully realized even in regions with extreme living conditions."

Desert Architecture Book Link

e group is proud to showcase our design of a premier luxury home in Los Cabos, Mexico

Irene Bustos, the Managing Principal in the e group Latin America office was responsible for this spectacular landscape architectural design of a premier luxury home in the residential community of Quivira in Los Cabos, Mexico. Beautiful!

Recent e group design makes Travel + Leisure Awards List

e group worked for many years on the landscape architectural design for The InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa (above) in Paradise Valley, Arizona and was extremely proud that it recently was awarded the number 13 spot among the top-50 resorts in the United States and Canada.

Travel + Leisure 2010 World's Best Awards - Top 50 Resorts in The United States and Canada

Municipal News

e group is proud to announce that it was recently selected to The City of Avondale's pre-qualified consultant list as Landscape Architect. We are looking forward to the opportunity!

DBG Bench Node Installed

Randsom Brown's bench node design was recently installed at the Desert Botanical Garden. The clever design features soft desert hue's and also incorporates a soothing water feature. Nice job Randsom.

Convention Center Competition

Above are a few of the renderings from the recently completed design delopement package for a Convention Center in Haikou, Hainan Province PRC. It was a competition with e group and one other firm. All the e group offices (Scottsdale, San Jose del Cabo, Manila and Shenzhen) contributed to the 50+ boards submitted to the client. Way to go team!

e group in NYC!

e group recently joined Dye Designs Group and Archiventure at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey to present our Golf Course Community experience. Matt Blanchard our Director of Marketing joined Sam McGarey and Jim Nordlie and presented to a group of Real Estate Developers from China. Matt is seen here giving the thums up from the "Top of the Rock" after the presentation.

Guatemala Trip

Bob Thompson has shared this picture of his recent trip to Guatemala. Bob was lucky enough to go sport fishing with Tono Colom, son of the President of Guatemala (Antonio Colom). An avid sportsman, Tono also plays bass guitar in the band "Viento en Contra". Check his band out at : http://www.myspace.com/vientoencontra

e group's 2nd open house presentation of the 11th St. Pedestrian Improvements

Click the following link for the complete .pdf document of the open house presentation of the 11th St. Pedestrian Improvements

http://www.egroupinc.com/pdf/11th.pdf

Featured Renderings from the Sanya Healing Resort - Haninan, China

Congratulations to the e group Manila office for creating this truly spectacular set of renderings on the Sanya Healing Resort Project!

Fun Bird's Eye Views of the Qingyang Project by e group's China office

e group China finishes Landscape Master Plan of The Houhai Seaview Residential Project in Shenzhen, China

China office finishes Landscape Master Plan of The Houhai Seaview Residential Project in Shenzhen, China

e group China finishes WuHu Silver Lake Park Master Plan

Completed Master Plan and Site Rensering of The Wuhu Silver Lake Park in Wuhu, Anhui, China. Highlights include tennis courts, basketball courts, mini-amphitheatre, multiple pool areas, fishing piers, yacht dock, fitness trail and driving range.

Berlin Agave Yucca Forest Sneak Peek Tour

Here is a video by the DBG director of exhibits and planning, Elaine McGinn, giving a tour of the new Berlin Agave Yucca Forest. e group was the Landscape Architect for this project. The new exhibit opened November 21st. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85tZnYSbWHE