Happy Holidays from e group

All of us join in wishing you a wonderful Holiday Season and a happy New Year

e group plans to update corporate identity

With the recent industry wide changes to our profession and similar changes at our own firm, e group has decided that the time was right to update and streamline our corporate identity a bit. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

New e group Urban Park Design "Ayala Triangle Gardens" gains praise for enhancing Makati Central Business District

The Manila Publication of "Arts and Culture" recently released an article praising the new e group Urban Park Design "Ayala Triangle Gardens" for enhancing The Makati Central Business District. The civic space at the convergence of three major thoroughfares in Makati CBD is considered to be the largest Urban Garden in the area at 20,000 sqare meters.

Berlin Agave Yucca Forest Exhibit

Berlin Agave Yucca Forest Exhibit

e group begins preliminary work on new Fonatur land planning project in Bajos de Coyula - Huatulco, Mexico

e group is currently working on another Fonatur land planning project for a 8000+ hectares of land near Huatulco, Oaxaca Mexico with sub-tropical climate, pristine sandy beaches and turquoise blue ocean. Project is surrounded by a national park and will contribute a large percentage of the property as open space. There are four existing villages as well as existing agricultural fields and mangroves along the coast that are carefully incorporated in the land plan to assure a sustainable legacy. The real estate components include several resort sites, marina village and yacht club, new beach town center, new cultural town center, new nature learning center as well as residential development ranging from single family residential golf estates and villas to high density condominiums.

e group officially moves main office to new Scottsdale location

The e group USA office has officially moved to its new Scottsdale location. Please update your records with our new address:

7337 E. Doubletree Ranch Rd.
Suite C-165
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Tel. 602-462-9000

Fax. 602-462-9001

Download announcement: http://www.egroupinc.com/pdf/announcement.pdf

e group welcomes the 2009 Greenbuild Expo to Phoenix!

As e group welcomes the 2009 Greenbuild Expo to Phoenix we proudly announce having made great strides to drastically reduce our physical office space and become a more virtual effort focused on green economy service. We've begun to diminish our carbon foot print by reducing commuting, office scale, and associated utilities etc. Improvements include a leaner, meaner attitude when it comes to producing paper, reducing weekly commutes for some employees from 300 miles to 40 and using technology to reduce our overall carbon emissions. We are excited to lead the change in green planning, sustainable development, green infrastructure, and carbon neutral communities.

Canalscape renderings by e group and Thompson Pollari Architects

To help foster the development of an "Authentic Desert Urbanism for Metro Phoenix," the AIA Phoenix Metro Chapter, in conjunction with ASU's Canalscape Symposium sponsored a Professional Design Competition for projects adjacent the city's canal banks. e group teamed up with Thompson Pollari Architects and others to compose "Ingleside Inn at Arizona Falls" It was one of approximately 20 entries displayed at the AIA's open house. The winning Canalscape entries will be displayed at the 2009 Greenbuild Expo in Phoenix, Arizona.

Read about Canalscape and the 2009 Greenbuild Expo in the Arizona Republic article on the preceeding post.

Arizona Republic Article: Canalscape stirs world's interest

Canalscape stirs world's interest

Southeast Asia Building Magazine features e group and their design work in the Newport City project in Manila, Philippines

Download article: http://www.egroupinc.com/pdf/sab.pdf

Exerpt from article:

"Newport City is a sprawling development with few buildings and a large portion of land dedicated for the parks and resort – a complete hideaway in the city. To fulfill the experience, EGroup – the architectural consultant of the structure, gave focus in its landscape structure which plays an important role yet preserves its corporate appeal. The landscape fabric ties the different areas together ultimately providing that resort experience."

Bob Thompson's Got Talent!

A vintage cartoon drawn by Bob Thompson circa 1975. It depicts his former boss (Richard Emik)at his drafting table reading the news about his new office opening in Ketchum, Idaho.

e group Hosts The Historic Garfield District - 11th St. Pedestrian Improvement Open House Meeting

The first project Open house was held to present the project scope and identify the existing conditions to the general public and was hosted by Project Manager Jason Harrington. A summary of our field research was presented and 4 large scale boards of the project area. An aerial photo on 2 boards was presented describing the project area and identifying key elements within the corridor. The third board presented included an existing typical R/W section and an inventory of the existing trees within the project limits. The fourth and last board described the major issues relating to the project with sample images of each issue in a collage format. The major issues identified were ADA access, pavement conditions and types, Crime Prevention / CPTED issues, and historical features. E group will be taking the comments received from the community input and developing a concept during future stages. A second open house will be conducted later this fall.

e group presents banquet facility design to Gila River Indian Community

Earlier today e group presented the master plan for a unique garden banquet facility for the Gila River Indian Community. The project is incorporating a natural farm, olive grove, outdoor cooking facility, amphitheater and lawn event space, farmer's market and pumpkin patch among others features into a interactive garden that will be incorporated into a new banquet facility. Randsom Brown is managing the project.

e group unveils the design presentation of a private yacht club, marina and hotel in Shenzhen, China

e group is working on the landscape architecture design for this contemporary architecture design private yacht club, marina and hotel in Shenzhen, China. The project includes a Lover’s boardwalk with iconic towers, yacht events and water plazas with nautical motifs , restaurants and outdoor activity areas. The hotel itself will have a infinity pool, waterfall and rock climbing walls with lush gardens and beach volleyball court. There will be a fishing dock and associated lagoon. Check out the presentation by clicking the following link and selecting the "featured design" link.

http://www.egroupinc.com/resorts

Manzanita Senior Center conceptual design options presented to the City of Phoenix

e group recently teamed up with CCBG and UEB Builders to present qualifications and conceptual ideas to the City of Phoenix for their new senior recreation center.