Good design is simple - free from prescribed styles or precepts. Whether at public art or city scale, strengthening people’s connection with the environment and their relationships with others drives everything.

Chris is a principal and design director of landscape architecture and urban design at Stantec’s Boston office. His work is built upon a passion and curiosity for purposeful solutions - enhancing clients’ vision and their sites’ innate character.

His recent work includes the multi-award-winning design of Masdar City’s first neighborhood* – one of the world’s most sustainable urban developments in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The project includes the city’s flagship district plaza, a northern gateway park, and a new visitors center site - designed in collaboration with Foster & Partners. He led the design effort for the public realm for Israel’s first underground light-rail system in Tel Aviv, including new parks, plazas, and multimodal streetscapes.

Closer to home, he was the design lead for a multi-disciplinary consulting team for the revitalization of the 14-acre Christian Science Plaza in Boston*. The plaza was originally designed in the 1970s by architects I.M. Pei & Associates and Araldo Cossutta, Associated Architects, and was designated a Boston landmark in 2011.

*Designed while at CRJA