OUR STORY

TGP Services

TGP, Inc. is a professional practice offering consulting services for solving contemporary landscape design challenges.

As a service-oriented firm founded in 1994, TGP is committed to providing clients a unique level of attention and responsiveness. A site-specific approach to the design of each project is the hallmark of the firm, an approach that ensures a distinctive product by responding to a project’s individual challenges and characteristics – the context, the topography, the history, the budget..

TGP has undertaken a broad spectrum of work, both nationally and abroad, including master-planned residential and resort communities, apartment and condominium complexes, affordable and redevelopment housing, model, custom and estate homes, hotels, parks and recreational facilities, and commercial and institutional projects.

Some current Southern California projects include the landscape design of a 250-bed senior housing development on five acres in Yorba Linda; a 200-unit luxury apartment complex on 4 acres in Costa Mesa; an affordable housing ‘village’ for veterans and their families in Lancaster, and a mixed-use developement on a major boulevard in Los Angeles – including a 125-room hotel and 120 residential units. The firm is also designing the landscapes for several affordable housing developments in Los Angeles.

Our People

Our expert team

Nanda Raghunathan, RLA, ASLA

Principal

Nanda Raghunathan brings over 15 years of international experience to TGP, Inc., working on a wide variety of projects, including urban streetscapes, school and college campuses, parks and outdoor environments for multi-family housing and institutions. He approaches this broad range of landscape projects through a creative and theoretical design lens. Backed by a personal passion for all things design, this methodology creates interesting and thought-provoking solutions. At TGP, his work includes leading all aspects of conceptual and detailed landscape design, project management and construction administration.

He is a registered landscape architect in the state of California and a LEED-accredited professional. He previously worked at AHBE landscape architects and The Collaborative West. He received his Master of Landscape Architecture from Virginia Tech in 2004 and his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Madras, India, in 1999.

Diane Kern

Landscape Designer

Diane Kern, senior landscape designer, has worked with TGP Inc. for more than 20 years as a project designer with particular skills in planting design and landscape construction detailing. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Virginia. Prior office experience includes Peridian, The Office of Pamela Burton, and The L.A. Group.

Julian Camacho

Intern

Julian Camacho, is an aspiring designer currently enrolled in Glendale Community College.

Rob Pressman, ASLA

Principal

Over the course of his 35-year-career in landscape architecture, Rob Pressman has worked on five continents, designing a wide range of thoughtful, site-specific projects in Los Angeles and Jerusalem, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Melbourne and Monrovia (Liberia).

After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in the Conservation of Natural Resources from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Pressman set off for a decade, working on campus plans in Africa, open-space designs in Australia, and cultural landscapes in Israel, where he won Third Prize in a design competition for a memorial at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Other notable projects in Israel include a Pilgrim’s Way Station along the Via Dolorosa at St. Stephen’s Gate in Jerusalem, and the archaeologically sensitive conversion of Sultan’s Pool, a 2,000-year-old reservoir, into a modern amphitheatre.

Pressman returned to the United States in 1984, where he worked on large-scale urban projects with EDAW, Inc., in Irvine, California, turning his focus to the design of large master-planned communities and residential projects when he joined the L.A. Group, Inc., in 1986, as a Principal.

Pressman opened his own firm, TGP, Inc. in 1994, with a focus on high-density, multi-family residential and mixed-use projects.

Whether designing a residence on a challenging site in Los Angeles, or a large housing development in Shanghai, Mr. Pressman responds to the project’s individual challenges and characteristics, creating a distinctive product that takes into consideration both the setting and the culture.

TGP Inc. won First Prize in an invited international design competition for Bijiashan, a 350-acre regional park in Shenzhen, China, in 1999.

Nathan Peterson

Intern

Nathan is currently working on his MLA at Cal Poly, Pomona.

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Valuable Clients

  • AMCAL Communities, Inc.
  • American Multi Family, Inc.
  • American Senior Living
  • Archstone Communities
  • Astani Enterprises
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Caruso Affiliated, Inc.
  • Centex Homes
  • CETT Investment Company
  • City View
  • Community Dynamics
  • Equity Office Properties
  • Etco Homes
  • GMPA Architects
  • Goldrich & Kest, Inc.
  • Greystone Homes
  • Held Properties
  • Hilton Development Group
  • J.Y. Design Architects
  • John Laing Homes
  • JPI
  • Legado Companies
  • Lennar Homes of California, Inc.
  • Leo A Daly Architecture
  • Lim Chang Rohling Associates Architects
  • Lowe Enterprises
  • McCormack Baron Salazar
  • Menorah Housing Foundation
  • Mercy Housing California
  • Morgan Group Inc.
  • National Core
  • NMS Properties, Inc.
  • Palm Communities
  • Patriot Homes, Inc.
  • Province Group
  • Pulte Homes
  • Richmond American Homes, Inc.
  • RWR Companies
  • Shapell Industries, Inc.
  • Sondermann Ring Partners
  • SunCal Companies
  • Temecula Valley Vineyards
  • Togawa Smith Martin Residential
  • Tripointe Homes
  • Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh Architects
  • Vista Investments LLC
  • Warmington Homes
  • Wasserman Real Estate Capital
  • Watt Genton Associates
  • Wood Partners
  • Warmington Homes
  • Sondermann Ring Partners
  • Vista Investments LLC
  • Community Dynamics
  • CityView
  • Tripointe Homes
  • Held Properties
  • Etco Homes
  • K Pacific Investments
  • Greystar
  • Palm Communities
  • Legado
  • Lowe Enterprises

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