Rowland Nursery
Las Cruces, New Mexico

1989 $851,000

The design of this facility revolved around elements common to a nursery: sales building, greenhouse, lath house for plant stock, pottery and planter shed, tree nursery, and storage shed. The dominant sales building contains sales and gardening merchandise and acts as gateway to the nursery. An open steel pavilion painted yellow creates a highly visible main entrance in front of the sales building and greenhouse. Its shape was intended to tie the various building forms into a cohesive whole. Materials and colors were selected to evoke various aspects of the landscape: exterior split masonry is similar to stone; a dark green metal roof recalls evergreen trees; and rust-colored doors, windows, and frames evoke terra cotta pottery.

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