Hargreaves Associates - News
LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS PARK DESIGN IN THE MEDIA
The Hargreaves Associates - LDA Design team and the new London 2012 Olympics design were recently featured in the following articles:
World Architecture News
The BBC
London Evening Standard
The London Paper
LONDON 2012 UNVEILS BRAND A NEW TYPE OF PARK FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
We are pleased to announce Hargreaves Associates has completed the design for London 2012 Olympic Park..
Please view the Official Hargreaves Associates' Press Release.
For more information and project images, please contact:
Elizabeth Lucas, Marketing Coordinator
415.865.1811 x238
elucas@hargreaves.com
HOUSTON'S DOWNTOWN TRANSFORMATION
Discovery Green, Houston's new downtown park, was featured in the October 2008 issue of Urban Land Magazine..
For the full article, please read Houston's Downtown Transformation in Urban Land Magazine.
LOUISVILLE WATERFRONT PARK: PHASE THREE UNDERWAY
The development of Louisville's Waterfront Park Master Plan Phase III, 13 acres of the 85 acre project highlighting the Big Four Bridge and the Lincoln Memorial, is featured on Broken Sidewalk.
Please visit the Louisville Waterfront Park for more information.
PARKVIEW WEST: ORIGAMI IN THE CITY
Parkview West, the collaberated efforts of Hargreaves Associates and Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates, is featured in the Chicago Tribune.
Please visit Parkview West for more information.
HUDSON PARK BOULEVARD: HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES DESIGN REVEALED
Hargreaves Associates with TEN Arquitectos unveiled their competing proposal to design a new park for Hudson Park & Boulevard; a four-acre system of parks, open space, and an adjacent street that will be constructed in Manhatten's West Side between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 42nd Streets, as part of a 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district.
The competition is featured in October's Architectural Record.
MARY MARGARET JONES: NEW DESIGN FURTURES COUNCIL FELLOW
Hargreaves Associates' Senior Principal, Mary Margaret Jones, was honored as a Selection for the 2008 class of Design Futures Council Fellow. Nineteen individuals were chosen to receive the honor in recognition of their significant contributions toward the understanding of changing trends, new research, and applied knowledge leading to innovative design models that improve the built environment and the human condition.
For more information about the 20008 Design Futures Council Fellows, please visit Design Intelligence.
ZORLU CENTER ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION
Mimarlar Tasarim (Han Tümertekin) + Hashim Sarkis + George Hargreaves Consortium is one of 4 finalist teams selected for the Zorlu Center Architecture and Urban Design Competition, a mixed-use urban design center in Istanbul, Turkey. Zorlu Real Estate launched the competition in June 2007; receiving 117 applications and qualification from 13 international architecture offices.
For more information about the Zorlu Center Architecture and Urban Design Competition, please visit the Turkish Daily News and most recently the USA Landscape Architect.
21ST CENTURY MOUND BUILDERS
The construction of the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum in Oklahoma City is featured in Native Biz.
Please visit the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum for more information.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES WITH HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES
Hargreaves Associates is currently seeking qualified Senior-Level / Project Management Landscape Architects and Architects for employment in our San Francisco office. To view our employment opportunities, please visit our Current Openings, or the ASLA and AIA career opportunity website.
HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES SELECTED FOR PHASE ONE OF NEW ORLEANS: REINVENTING THE CRESCENT
Hargreaves Associates has been selected as Lead Designer for Phase One of New Orleans’ Reinventing the Crescent, as part of the team chosen by the New Orleans Building Corporation. New Orleans-based Eskew+Dumez+Ripple is Prime and Executive Architect, for the $116,935,000 budget, with three distinct areas of focus distributed along 4.5 of the Mississippi River. Hargreaves Associates will translate the 2007 master plan into three design packages geared toward transforming defunct wharves into an ecological park; forging stronger pedestrian connections between the French Quarter’s Jackson Square and the Moonwalk at the river; and retrofitting existing wharf structures into a Marigny/Bywater neighborhood park.
Eskew+Dumez+Ripple and Chan Krieger Sieniewicz will collaborate on architecture and urban design components for spanning rail, floodwall and river. Michael Maltzan Architecture will design a riverfront amphitheater between the power plant and convention center. Adjaye/Associates will design a non-denominational riverfront sanctuary near Piety Street.
The selection follows the announcement a week earlier that the Reinventing the Crescent master plan won a 2008 National Award of Honor from the American Society of Landscape Architects for Analysis and Planning.
For more information and images, please contact:
Elizabeth Lucas, elucas@hargreaves.com 415.865.1811 x238
New Orleans Building Corporation Press Release.
LOS ANGELES STATE HISTORIC PARK
Hargreaves Associates with Michael Maltzan Architecture have been contracted by California State Parks to provide full design services for the Los Angeles State Historic Park. In the summer of 2006, the Hargreaves Associates team submitted the winning competition proposal for the Los Angeles State Historic Park Competition.
For more information, please visit the Los Angeles State Historic Park.
HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES SELECTED FOR THE DENVER UNION STATION
Hargreaves Associates has been selected as the lead public realm designer for the Denver Union Station in collaboration with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The 34 acre site is the last major undeveloped parcel in lower downtown and is slated to become a mixed use transit district with a renovated historic station, new multimodal transit center, office, hotel, residential and retail uses. The public realm will include plazas, promenades and streetscapes with a proposed budget of $28 million.
For more information, please visit the Denver Union Station.
NOLA: REINVENTING THE CRESCENT WINS 2008 ASLA ANALYSIS AND PLANNING AWARD AND 2008 AIA NEW ORLEANS COMPETITION AWARD
Hargreaves Associates is pleased to announce that the New Orleans Riverfront: Reinventing the Crescent has won both the 2008 ASLA Analysis and Planning Award of Honor, and the 2008 New Orleans AIA Design Competition award to schemes featuring sustainable design features. The NOLA Reinventing the Crescent design for a 6-mile open space development along the Mississippi River from Jackson Avenue to the Holy Cross levee, designed by Hargreaves Associates, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, TEN Arquitectos and Chan Krieger Sieniewicz..
For information about these honors, please visit the ASLA 2008 Professional Awards and the New Orleans City Business.
OLYMPIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF LONDON APPOINTS HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES
Hargreaves Associates is pleased to direct you to the following press release from the Olympic Development Authority of London.
Please visit the Olympic Development Authority of London Press Release and the Guardian UK.