Just before he dives into any structure, landscape architect Mike Lucas consults the land. He explores it and observes it, returning multiple situations to expertise and go through it at diverse moments of working day, in diverse temperature, most likely in diverse seasons. It is an financial investment of time that can make all the variance, he says, in producing a at ease outdoor setting that will welcome shoppers outdoors. “That is so integral to all of our tasks, and so essential to how he will work,” says Jennifer Lucas, the other half of the husband-and-wife workforce of Lucas & Lucas. He is skilled in landscape architecture, she in architecture.…