The Revington

Located just steps away from Worcester’s Polar Park, The Revington apartment homes are part of a transformative mixed-use development revitalizing the neighborhood around the recently completed ballpark.  

Bohler’s planning, landscape architecture, and design team collaborated closely with the project architect and other consultants to design both the street-level landscape and a spacious third-floor residential amenity courtyard. At street level, the new trees and native plantings surround the building, softening its edges and adding welcoming green space near entrances and retail storefronts.  

The landscape design incorporated a variety of outdoor uses, both active and passive, onto the third-floor courtyard. 

The 30,000-square foot on-structure amenity courtyard offers a variety of features for residents, including a pool with a sun deck and pergola, synthetic lawn for fitness and yoga, an outdoor kitchen with shaded dining spaces, and fire tables for evening gathering. A custom curved, tiered bench flows seamlessly between the courtyard and indoor spaces, creating a unique social area. 

The outdoor grill stations, with a variety of seating options, provide residents with space for entertainment and al fresco dining.

The courtyard is also designed with cozy outdoor work-from-home spaces, buffered by lush plantings. Bohler carefully selected landscape and hardscape materials to complement the building’s architecture, and our scope included designing task and ambient lighting to ensure the courtyard remains comfortably usable and inviting into the night.  

The landscape design successfully integrates distinct areas of the building through the shared courtyard, offering accessible walkways, seating, active lawn spaces, and inviting gardens for residents to enjoy year-round. 

Two synthetic lawns provide ample outdoor space for activities like group yoga, lawn games or simply lounging in the sun.

A palette of native trees, shrubs and perennials beautify the courtyard and provide shade and screening between activity areas.

A concrete and wood-top seatwall enhances the space between upper and lower walkways for additional seating and enjoyment of the lush landscape. 

The raised pool deck provides residents with a great space for sunbathing and swimming while providing views of the adjacent cityscape.

The design team created a functional amenity courtyard that utilizes grading and planting strategies to ensure the on-structure landscape is interesting and engaging to navigate.