Projects of KTLA,LLP
        The following projects are projects that KTLA,LLP has worked on and installed since the start of the company in April of 2007.  These projects have combined some of the skills that we have and also have gave us the knowledge it takes to create great customer service along with making amazing improvements on residence in the Treasure Valley.  These projects are just a sample of what we have done and what we will do in the FUTURE.

Walls of Change
                These retaining walls on this project are a way of creating a layered affect of the existing planting beds of this residence.  The entire landscape had some renovation of new plantings and Perma-bark in the beds, but the retaining walls to create raised beds was the main focal point of the landscape.   

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Outdoor Living Room
                On this project, we were given a unique experience of creating an outdoor dining area from an empty patch of lawn that the client wanted to recapture as a useable space.  We had the opportunity to create an outdoor space using native materials along with some design ideas to create a usable space that the client enjoys and that we really enjoyed creating.  The plant materials are semi-native to this area along with the ground cover.  The flagstone is not native due to the price and availability of the native materials of the same characteristics.

Creating Great from Waste
                In today’s society it is overly important to have your own open space to do what you want with.  Some people have a large open space that needs to be brought down to life size and be able to be managed.  This project was a large site that was very open and very intimidating to be in.  Our goal with the site was to bring everything in and make it feel more comfortable to be in.  We accomplished this through tree plantings around the perimeter of the site.  We also raised the beds to help create the more closed in feel of the beds.  Using a lot of large shrubs and grasses, we have created a multilayer boarder to create a protected site from the outside.

Urban Planning
Through his career, Paul Korn, Landscape Architect, has worked on various public planning projects including the Seattle Viaduct and water front revitalization, the McCall, Idaho  Moss Child learning Camp, and various other projects throughout the Northwest.  These projects were all in the conceptual stages but have led to complete master plans and future installations.  Here is an example of these projects:

Gritman Medical Center Moscow, Idaho 
          This project was designed to take a derelict site that the Gritman Medical Center had recently acquired from the city.  Their goal with the site is to create an entrance to the City of Moscow and also create an outdoor space for the hospital, located directly north, for patience to use in rehabilitation.  We worked with the city and the hospital to create a new entry plaza and outdoor space.  

Seattle Viaduct Project
                The Seattle Viaduct is a highway that goes along the waterfront of Seattle.  This raised highway was damaged in 2001 by a earthquake that measured 6.8 in magnitude.  The damages didn’t bring down the viaduct, but did create some very big cracks and officials are worried of its structure.  Another situation was like this in San Francisco, but that viaduct did collapse in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.  So Seattle was looking for options on what to do to replace the viaduct and reconnect the waterfront to downtown Seattle because the viaduct cuts off the water front to the downtown core.  Our Goal was to create some concepts of what to do to the waterfront.  That is where this project fits into the revitalization of Seattle.

Sawtooth Botanical Gardens   Ketchum, Idaho
                The Sawtooth Botanical Gardens are located between Sun Valley and Ketchum in Central Idaho.  These gardens have been there since the late 1980’s and have been in disrepair for a few years.  The lack of public interest made funds short and loss of quality of the gardens.  The management of the gardens contacted the us in hopes of design changes.  So we worked with the botanical gardens and native plant society to create new design ideas for them to choose from and implement.  This project was a fun one to work on for the enjoyment of creating a native inspired design to enhance the gardens appeal.  This project is a native inspired design which reflects the surrounding ecology of the Wood River Valley.

Idaho Center Rain Gardens
                Today’s buildings are being built larger and larger and creating that much more runoff the flows into our rivers and streams.  This water is laden with chemicals from pollution that have settled on hard surfaces and also from humans being careless about spills.  The Idaho Center Rain Gardens were inspired by the Rain Gardens at the Portland Convention Center.  The idea of a rain garden is to filter out the pollutants from the runoff from buildings and other built hard surfaces.  The rain gardens filter the runoff biologically with plant materials and also slow the runoff from entering the water system all at once.  So it lengthens the amount of runoff time and lowers the sudden surge during and after a large rain event.  A rain garden also allows water to infiltrate into the soil and helps with the water table.  This type of design is a new technology but a concept as old as the earth itself.  The Idaho Center was chosen for this project to create a model for the Treasure Valley to follow.