Hargreaves Associates - News - New Commissions
RICHMOND RIVER PLAN
The city is preparing to award a $490,000 contract to Hargreaves Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a design plan for land along the James River in downtown. The design plan, a follow-up to the Downtown Master Plan, is expected to look at ways to improve and expand public access along the riverfront, which could include Mayo Island and the site of the proposed Echo Harbour development. The plan will focus on the north and south banks of the river from the Robert E. Lee Bridge to the Henrico County line and Ancarrow's Landing.
UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER
Hargreaves Associates is in charge of reflecting about a mode of management of waters and the natural spaces in echo with the urban, landscaped and architectural project conceived by the group. The project aims at the excellence in innovation and in exemplary nature. It bases itself on the principles of pragmatism for the consideration of the risk and for the control of needs in later management. The singular situation of Montpellier offers its unique assets to establish a major Mediterranean pole in the management reasoned by water resources. The coexistence of both opposing situations of the excess and the deficit of water confers naturally on the town from Montpellier, this place of laboratory to meet the challenges of the alternative management of the resource which the Mediterranean Basin will have to find in the next decades. The University of Montpellier which has to become an international leading pole, also has to offer a living environment to its image. It has to integrate an ambitious environmental approach and reach the excellence in the management of the water and the natural spaces.
HAIHE RIVERFRONT LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Hargreaves Associates is currently working on the Conceptual Landscape Plan and Schematic Design for the riverfronts that surround the Tianjin Binhai New Area located in Tanggu. The overall planning area fronts both sides of the Haihe River as it gracefully bends around the new Central Business District on the Yujiapu peninsula before it connects to the Bohai Sea. This ten kilometer stretch of open space is coordinated with the Master Planning vision led by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and aims to reinforce the adjacent land uses, transportation patterns, infrastructure, culturally significant sites and natural ecologies. Site specific open space programs, landscape typologies and key features of the plan are woven into a larger system of upper and lower riverfront promenades.
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER - KIMMEL PAVILION
Hargreaves Associates was selected by Ennead Architects to collaborate on the Kimmel Pavilion addition at the NYU Medical Center campus in Manhattan - a new hospital tower at 1st Avenue and 34th Street which will include a 1 acre ground level arrival plaza and a 24,600 sf outdoor terrace on the 7th level overlooking the East River which will include gardens, outdoor dining and spill out space for conferences and fund raising events. The 7th level terrace will also include dedicated outdoor space specifically designed for pediatric patients with outdoor dining, gardens and a variety of interactive elements.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO - MISSION BAY
Hargreaves Associates and Steven Holl Architects teamed up for the Bay Area Life Sciences Association design competition for a new 43-acre campus for the University of California, San Francisco. The competition envisioned a wholly new bio-engineering academic and research campus on a currently derelict urban site immediately adjacent to downtown San Francisco. The conceptual campus master plan proposed densely developed campus research structures configured to form a series of open space quadrangles. The combination of small open spaces bordered by “background” buildings would strengthen the goal to develop the campus incrementally, building by building, yet achieve a campus atmosphere at the same time. The small scale garden landscapes were meant to configure intimate spaces on their own, but contribute a common landscape language to the larger campus upon full build out.
The city is preparing to award a $490,000 contract to Hargreaves Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a design plan for land along the James River in downtown. The design plan, a follow-up to the Downtown Master Plan, is expected to look at ways to improve and expand public access along the riverfront, which could include Mayo Island and the site of the proposed Echo Harbour development. The plan will focus on the north and south banks of the river from the Robert E. Lee Bridge to the Henrico County line and Ancarrow's Landing.
UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER
Hargreaves Associates is in charge of reflecting about a mode of management of waters and the natural spaces in echo with the urban, landscaped and architectural project conceived by the group. The project aims at the excellence in innovation and in exemplary nature. It bases itself on the principles of pragmatism for the consideration of the risk and for the control of needs in later management. The singular situation of Montpellier offers its unique assets to establish a major Mediterranean pole in the management reasoned by water resources. The coexistence of both opposing situations of the excess and the deficit of water confers naturally on the town from Montpellier, this place of laboratory to meet the challenges of the alternative management of the resource which the Mediterranean Basin will have to find in the next decades. The University of Montpellier which has to become an international leading pole, also has to offer a living environment to its image. It has to integrate an ambitious environmental approach and reach the excellence in the management of the water and the natural spaces.
HAIHE RIVERFRONT LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Hargreaves Associates is currently working on the Conceptual Landscape Plan and Schematic Design for the riverfronts that surround the Tianjin Binhai New Area located in Tanggu. The overall planning area fronts both sides of the Haihe River as it gracefully bends around the new Central Business District on the Yujiapu peninsula before it connects to the Bohai Sea. This ten kilometer stretch of open space is coordinated with the Master Planning vision led by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and aims to reinforce the adjacent land uses, transportation patterns, infrastructure, culturally significant sites and natural ecologies. Site specific open space programs, landscape typologies and key features of the plan are woven into a larger system of upper and lower riverfront promenades.
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER - KIMMEL PAVILION
Hargreaves Associates was selected by Ennead Architects to collaborate on the Kimmel Pavilion addition at the NYU Medical Center campus in Manhattan - a new hospital tower at 1st Avenue and 34th Street which will include a 1 acre ground level arrival plaza and a 24,600 sf outdoor terrace on the 7th level overlooking the East River which will include gardens, outdoor dining and spill out space for conferences and fund raising events. The 7th level terrace will also include dedicated outdoor space specifically designed for pediatric patients with outdoor dining, gardens and a variety of interactive elements.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO - MISSION BAY
Hargreaves Associates and Steven Holl Architects teamed up for the Bay Area Life Sciences Association design competition for a new 43-acre campus for the University of California, San Francisco. The competition envisioned a wholly new bio-engineering academic and research campus on a currently derelict urban site immediately adjacent to downtown San Francisco. The conceptual campus master plan proposed densely developed campus research structures configured to form a series of open space quadrangles. The combination of small open spaces bordered by “background” buildings would strengthen the goal to develop the campus incrementally, building by building, yet achieve a campus atmosphere at the same time. The small scale garden landscapes were meant to configure intimate spaces on their own, but contribute a common landscape language to the larger campus upon full build out.