News
Crescent Park Contributes to Surging Development
A recent article in the New Orleans Advocate highlights economic development in the Bywater neighborhood, noting that “appreciation in property that lies close to the Mississippi River is driven in part by Crescent Park, the new linear riverfront park.” Real Estate analysts highlight the impact of the stimulating and inviting nature of Crescent Park, designed by Hargreaves Associates and opened in 2014: “having a place to go out and see the river and have a park-like experience is pretty unique in New Orleans. ” Read More
Zaryadye Park Opens in Moscow
After winning the international design competition in 2013, Hargreaves Associates in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Citymakers celebrated the opening of Zaryadye park on September 9th 2017. This park is the first large scale public park to open in Moscow in the last 50 years.
Zaryadye Park, a 13 hectares (32 acre) park in the heart of Moscow, represents a historic transformation of Russia’s capital that will demonstrate Moscow’s commitment to innovative design for 21st century civic spaces. The design is based on the principle of Wild Urbanism, a hybrid landscape where the natural and the built cohabit to create a new type of public space. Characteristic elements of the historic district of Kitay-Gorod and the cobblestone paving of Red Square are combined with the lush gardens of the Kremlin to create a new park that is both urban and green. Located on a site that was occupied throughout Moscow’s history, and until the early 1990’s by the Rossiya Hotel, the rubble filled site had sat fallow until the park’s development. Zaryadye Park is the missing link that completes the collection of world-famous monuments and urban districts forming central Moscow.
Fred A. Bernstein from Architectural Record, one of the first on site, writes about the park here. Photo credits Philippe Ruault.
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Publications News
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Chattanooga Renaissance Park included in Bloomsbury Publishing’s latest book
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability Creating Positive Change through Design
Mary Margaret Jones to Speak at American Academy in Rome’s Conversations Lecture Series
CONVERSATIONS – NEW TERRAIN
JULIA CZERNIAK Professor and Associate Dean, Syracuse Architecture MARY MARGARET JONES President/Senior Principal, Hargreaves Associates (1998 Fellow) MICHAEL MANFREDI Co-Founder, Weiss/Manfredi GREGG PASQUARELLI Co-Founder, SHoP Architects
In collaboration with the Enel Foundation.
Thursday, March 2, 2017, 6:30pm Whitney Museum of American Art, Susan and John Hess Family Theater 99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
Please join us for a panel discussion featuring some of the world’s leading practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture and urban design sharing thoughts related to the complex weave of manmade and natural systems. The panel will review innovative design strategies for the reclamation of brownfields and other disturbed landscapes, and discuss a variety of approaches for their reuse. Speakers will also address the challenges of large-scale development projects that require cooperation between communities and public and private organizations. Examples range from the adaptive re-use project of Brooklyn Bridge Park to the grounds of the Sydney Olympics, among other projects.
Report: Mayor Kenney Plans Waterfront Park on Top of I-95
Mayor Kenney plans to announce $90 million in city funding for a planned waterfront park that will extend from the Delaware River on top of Interstate 95 and Columbus Boulevard in Center City, according to a report Monday by PlanPhilly.
The park, which is intended to create a friendly green space connecting the waterfront to the rest of Center City, would cost a total of $225 million with the additional funding coming from state and philanthropic sources, the website reported.
The project, which is still in the early design stage, would encompass 11 acres between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. An existing park, which includes the Irish Memorial, occupies part of the space over I-95, but stops before Columbus Boulevard and is 30 feet above the level of Penn’s Landing. Read more
Award Win for T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge
American Public Works Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Project of the Year Award for Transportation, $5 million to $25 million
Super Bowl Shining Spotlight on Houston Park Success Story
HOUSTON (AP) — The go-to place for many of the Super Bowl related festivities in Houston this week hasn’t been a swanky nightclub or a hard to get into restaurant but a popular 12-acre park that has helped revitalize the downtown area as well as become the heart of the city for many local residents. Read more
NY Times: The Super Bowl Returns to a Transformed Houston
The city, which was hit hard by slumping oil prices, has overhauled its night life, infrastructure and parks in hopes of becoming a world-class destination. Read more
Potterfield Bridge Saw 35,000 Visitors in December, its First Month Open
The T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge had a big first month, according to officials at the James River Park System, who counted 35,000 visitors to the new attraction in December.
“It’s a huge boon for the park and the city in general,” said the park system’s superintendent, Nathan Burrell. “It’s a lot of people you don’t typically don’t see in the James River Park System are down exploring, so it’s great to see this new mix of people coming in and enjoying it.” Read more
Discovery Green Mentioned in Cite Synthetic ArticleLandscape and City Building are Inseparable: An Introduction to Cite 99
“If the kaleidoscope of Houston comes together at any one place, if we have a commons, it is the splash pad at Discovery Green… the diversity of park visitors is remarkable.”