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PANAMA PACIFICO GAINS USGBC AND CLINTON SUPPORT AS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Panama Pacifico is a mixed-use business, residential and recreational center being created over the next 40 years. The scheme helps to make sustainable developments commercially viable and has this week been chosen as one of 16 projects in the USGBC and Clinton Climate Initiative’s Climate Positive Development Program which promotes large-scale urban projects that demonstrate cities can grow in ways that are “climate positive.”
The project covers 1,400 hectares with nearly half dedicated to parkland and open space. Wetlands, mangrove, forests, and native habitat are being preserved, in addition to many of the large trees in the area. New storm water systems will be integrated to allow the natural run-off of rainwater to nurture the land, and new trees will be planted every year as the development progresses.
1 million sq m of commercial space, 20,000 homes, together with retail centers, hotels, shools and places of worship and a championship golf course will be constructed creating a well rounded community and destination town.
For more information about Panama Pacifico, please visit World Architecture News.
FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN 2009 SPRING CONFERENCE
The Forum for Urban Design will host a panels comprised of leading landscpae architectural figures from North America to discuss different visions for the 21st century urban park. Three prominent landscape architects; George Hargreaves, James Corner and Michael Van Valkenburgh; will discuss the ways in which innovative and creative designs are redefining the park and city of the 21st century.
For more information about the Forum for Urban Design 2009 Spring Conference, please visit the Forum for Urban Design.
EVENTS CELEBRATE NEW FEATURES AT DAVENPORT'S CENTENNIAL PARK
Centennial Park opened successfully and with much praise from the enthusiastic city of Davenport on Saturday April 18, 2009.
The day-long list of events included a ribbon-cutting ceremony involving city officials and Iowa Gov. Chet Culver. There also was live music, basketball clinics, demonstrations at the Skate Park, family-friendly games and activities and giveaways. After the ceremony, people were invited to attend Davenport Night at Modern Woodmen Park. Tickets were free.
The skatepark has been open since 2006, but the Active Recreation Corridor has a lot to offer families, including a complex of two full, tournament quality basketball courts, a youth half-court, a concession/restroom pavilion, a stage, and picnic and informal play areas west of the new skate park. The skate park is for skateboard and BMX bike enthusiasts. It features handrails, stairs, ledges, ramps and a 10-foot bowl. It is open from sunup until one half-hour before sunset.
For more information about Davenport's Centennial Park Opening, please see the Quad-City Times.
BREATHING LIFE INTO RIVERFRONT PROPERTIES
Developer Grant Humphreys and Hargreaves Associates' Mary Margaret Jones were featured at the Urban Waterfront Development forum on Tuesday April 14, 2009. Mr. Humpreys' Ferris 105 foot tall Ferris Wheel will be the focal point of a 86-acre development dubbed 'The Waterfront' that over 10 years will include up to 950 homes, condominiums and apartments; 400,000 square feet of office space; 300,000 square feet of retail space; and a site for a hotel. Mary Margaret Jones, senior principal with Hargreaves Associates, has worked on riverfront developments around the world. She said the ingredients for a successful waterfront project are simple: Food, Water to play in, and a Waterfront. The Waterfront Park will allow Oklahoma City map its own plan and it’s a great opportunity to grow together.
For more information about Humphreys' Waterfront Park and the Urban Waterfront Development forum, please see the NewsOK article and video along with the Journal Record article.
SUMMER 2009 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Interested in an internship with Hargreaves Associates? We are currently accepting applications for the 2009 Internship Season. The applications deadline is Friday April 17, 2009. Please view our 2009 Internship Poster for more information about our opportunities..
RENOVATED SOUTH POINTE PARK REOPENS ON MIAMI BEACH
Hundreds of people, many with their pets, frolicked with Ferrer at the grand reopening of the 17.5 acres of green space at Miami Beach's southernmost point. The $22.4 million project took more than 20 months. Before, there was mostly plain open space with no major attractions. Now, there are 20-foot-wide walkways lined with Florida limestone and restored natural sand dunes, covered with grass. Children can play around metal tubes that look like stems and spout water like daisies.
For the full article, please read Miami Herald.
NEW YORK TIMES GIVES NOD TO NOLA: REINVENTING THE CRESCENT
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina architects and urban planners all over the country began a spirited investigation of how to make New Orleans safer and more sustainable. The nonprofit Urban Land Institute, devoted to urban issues, presented a report a few months after the storm, based purely on the city’s topography, that proposed returning some of its most devastated low-lying areas to wetlands and concentrating more housing on higher ground — a plan that would, among other things, reduce the burden on the levees and canals that protect the city from storms.
At the same time local architects and preservationists began a campaign to preserve the layers of historical fabric that had been damaged by or lost in the storm, including downtown’s Art Deco Charity Hospital, some early Modernist schools, New Deal-era public housing and the Ninth Ward’s shotgun houses, as well as the Spanish-influenced architecture of the French Quarter.
Even some private developers seemed to understand the importance of balancing social and environmental concerns. Sean Cummings, a local developer, has proposed a master plan for a six-mile-long park on a site along the city’s riverfront, currently a strip of decrepit wharfs, abandoned warehouses and parking lots.
Designed by a formidable team of architects that includes Enrique Norten, George Hargreaves, Alex Krieger and Allen Eskew, the proposal is a model of how to knit together conflicting urban realities. A matrix of public parks, outdoor markets and mid-rise residential towers is woven through the existing fabric of old warehouses. Landscaped boulevards would extend from the park into a mix of working-class and gentrified neighborhoods. What’s more, concentrating more housing on high land along the river fit nicely with the Urban Land Institute’s vision for a more sustainable city.
For the full article, please read The New York Times.
PORTLAND SOUTH WATERFRONT GETS FIRST NEIGHBORHOOD PARK
Nutter Corp. with Hargreaves Associates and local local landscape architect Lango Hansen will build the South Waterfront District’s first neighborhood park. The Portland City Council on Wednesday accepted Nutter’s bid of $2.17 million on the project.
For the full article, please read Portland's Daily Journal of Commerce.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS TEAM SUBMITS PROPOSAL FOR MISSION ROCK SEAWALL 337
The San Francisco Giants team; with Hargreaves Asssocitaes, SMWM (now Perkins+Will) and Atelier Ten, has submitted the design proposal for the Mission Rock Seawall 337 project.
The proposal includes over 6-acres of waterfront open space aimed at the downtown skyline where the China Basin shore curves south to meet the bay; featuring a great lawn, waterfront park, wetlands, mixed-use public spaces, venues for events and festivals; all amplifying the historical significance and cultural context of the site.
For the full article, please read San Francisco Chronicle.
Mission Rock Seawall 337
NEW ORLEANS RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT ON SCHEDULE
The redevelopment of the New Orleans riverfront appeared Wednesday to be on schedule, as a team of architects came to town to sign off on designs for a waterfront park in the Faubourg Marigny and Bywater, the project's first phase.
The City Council recently approved the expenditure of $30 million in Community Development Block Grant funds for the public park, clearing the way for construction of the landmark project to begin before the end of the year.
The first phase will transform the area between Esplanade Avenue and Mazant Street. Now a gritty industrial zone marred by burned-out cargo docks, the area is set to become verdant green space replete with bike paths, pavilions, two piers and even electricity-generating windmills. If everything goes according to plan, the park will open in 2011.
For the full article, please read The Times-Picayune.
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.