How We Think About Landscape Architecture

If there is a single term that best defines, whom we are and what we do as landscape architects at The Hayter Firm, it is the adjective, “simpatico.”

Derived from an Italian word that describes things or ideas that are compatible and agreeable when brought together, simpatico captures the essence of what we strive for everyday. Designs by The Hayter Firm’s landscape architects are conceived to blend form and function… to balance aesthetics and practicality… to achieve harmony between the built and the natural environments.   
           
Our plans weave a site’s natural and cultural character with the purpose of the activities and facilities being developed.  As a result—the grounds and the structures, the existing terrain and the built environment, the facility’s operational utility and the experience of its users—all come together in a way that is simply simpatico.

With a combined total of more than 80 years of experience, our landscape architects have gained insight and unsurpassed practical competence across a diverse range of planning and design work.  Most of our project experience is focused in these areas:
                       

Hospitality Resort Properties

• The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia
• Mount Washington Resort, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
• Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina
• Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia
  
  

Commercial and Mixed-Use Developments

• River Shoals, Irmo, South Carolina
• New Garden Village, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Meridian Business Campus, Durham, North Carolina
• The Arboretum, Southern Pines, North Carolina
• Dartmouth Brook Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
  
  

Institutional Facilities

• Pinehurst Government Complex, Pinehurst, North Carolina
• First Health Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst, North Carolina
• Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina
• Paul Ciener Botanical Gardens, Kernersville, North Carolina
• Village of Pinehurst, Pinehurst, North Carolina
• Rassie Wicker Park, Pinehurst, North Carolina
• Foxfire Village Green, Foxfire, North Carolina
  
  

Independent Retail Garden Centers

• Woodley Garden Center, Irmo, South Carolina
• Fairview Greenhouses, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Nobles Greenhouse, Live Oak, Florida
  
  

Memorial and Columbaria Gardens

• University Presbyterian Church Memorial Garden, Chapel Hill, NC
• Centenary United Methodist Church Columbarium, Winston-Salem, NC
• Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• First Presbyterian Church Columbarium, Abilene, TX
• Trinity Lutheran Church Columbarium, Newport News, VA
• First Baptist Church Columbarium, Greenville, SC
• Selwyn Presbyterian Church Columbarium, Charlotte, NC
  
  

Special Event Design

• 1999 & 2005 US Open Golf Championship, Pinehurst Resort, NC
• Outdoor Resort Events:
  
  - July 4th Celebrations
  - Antique Car Shows
  - Receptions & Gala
  
  
• Centenary United Methodist Church Columbarium, Winston-Salem, NC
• Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• 2001 & 2007 US Women's Open Golf Championship, Pinehurst Resort, NC
  
  
  

For every project, The Hayter Firm ensures simpatico planning and design through careful attention to balancing the practical utility of the built features with our insistence on responding to the character of the natural and cultural environment.  To accomplish this, the landscape architects at The Hayter Firm are practiced and skilled in areas such as:

• Land Use Master Planning
• Site Analysis and Due Diligence
• Site Planning
• Landscape Architecture
  
  
  

The heritage of The Hayter Firm is more than an account of how a successful business has grown over the past twenty-plus years.  Our story is actually more about how a distinctive approach to landscape architecture created the opportunity to fulfill client needs.

While The Hayter Firm was formed in 1986, we trace our lineage as a landscape architecture practice to landscape design work begun by founder Robert Hayter in the mid 1970’s early 1980’s.  At the time, Robert was a Professor of Landscape Design at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, NC, and was solidifying his design philosophies centered around client relationships and the concept of using landscape architecture to accentuate the character of the natural environment, rather than subjugating it into a synthetic place.  This approach, along with Robert’s understanding of composition and elements of planning that fully incorporates the practical and functional considerations of a developed site, led to site design-consulting projects at the Pinehurst Resort, Caribbean Resorts, Urban Streetscapes and other landscapes.

This practice has since evolved to become The Hayter Firm, with a professional staff of four landscape architects who provide planning and design services to clients in a variety of locations.