Edgemere is a five-star Continuing Care Retirement Community, located on a 16-acre site in the prestigious Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas. Phase I opened in December 2001, and quickly established Edgemere as a leader in the rapidly expanding senior living industry. The success of the Phase I resulted in the desire of the owner to implement the second and final phase at an accelerated rate. Talley Associates was challenged to create a design solution that exceeded the already high quality of the first phase, and succeeded. Edgemere had already established itself as a premier development of its product type, and had also established a strong architectural vernacular and image, that the landscape architect complemented without a slavish duplication of what had been created before. The design of the garden terrace, built on the roof of the parking garage, features a trellis-covered seating area overlooking the pool house courtyard below. The garden terrace presented an interesting design challenge that the landscape architect solved by creating a design that does not “feel” like a rooftop garden. The pool house courtyard fountain, strategically located to enhance views from the pool house, cleverly conceals the south wall of the Phase II parking garage and adds sound and light to animate the courtyard.