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March 2018 \ BUILDING DIALOGUE \ 87 amenity that culminates in a water feature in front of the sales center. The design “made landscape amenities out of drainage,” says James. “We learned it in business parks and on highways and learned we could ap- ply it to residential.” In Longmont, the 17-acre campus for Silicon Valley-based chipmaker Xilinx was “100 percent DTJ,” says Moore. The firm did “all of the archi- tecture, all of the landscape architecture, all of the planning” for the R&D hub and conference center that opened on former farmland in 2002. Highlighting a trail network and intact historical irrigation ditches, Moore hits on a familiar theme. “There’s this idea you’re out in nature,” he says. “We’re bringing this indoor/outdoor relationship right into the main lobby.” “They brought a collaborative process to the initial programming of the campus,” says Sue Mesch, Xilinx’s senior manager of global site ser- vices, of working with DTJ. “They listened to our wishes to not overpower site with some corporate conglomerate of a campus. We wanted a site that expressed the Colorado character with a built environment that fostered the innovation of our engineers.” The campus design preserved a significant amount of open space on a 5-acre wetland and wildlife habitat. “By leaving a stand of mature cot- tonwoods along Left Hand Creek, our site provides a home for many creatures of the prairie, including bobcats, foxes, bull snakes and many birds of prey,” notes Mesch. After soaring to more than 100 employees, DTJ saw a reversal of for- tune in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, but recovered by moving / DTJ: Integrating Open Spaces in Development for 50 Years / LEFT: The design team brought the indoor- outdoor relationship, and Colorado character, right into the Xilinx lobby. RIGHT: This award-winning resort project required a lot of time on the ground observing construction, and placing boulders and plant materials to achieve authenticity of place. BOTTOM: This iconic bridge utilizes materials employed throughout the landscape features of the Centerra community design.