Margot Chiuten (second from left) with (from left) her wife Shawna Black and their kids Keane, Graem, and Emerson.
Dreaming and Building: Margot Chiuten and Chiuten Trowbridge Landscape Architects
Margot Chiuten recently founded her own landscape architecture firm with longtime collaborator Peter Trowbridge. In this story in the freely available Upstate Gardeners Journal, learn about Chiuten’s journey from growing up in the Bronx to settling in Ithaca after studying at Cornell University and about Chiuten’s extensive work on the Buffalo Outer Harbor. One of the most memorable Outer Harbor projects Chiuten worked on was the in-city Lakeside Complex Bike Park, which has three mountain bike tracks of varying difficulty, beautiful landscaping and native habitat restoration, expansive views of Lake Erie, food trucks, and a lawn for events. Chiuten took her son, Keane (11) to mountain bike there, which was meaningful for her on multiple levels. “That was pretty darn cool,” she says.
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The Buffalo Outer Harbor Lakeside Bike Complex, designed by Margot Chiuten.