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The 1,700-long shared use pathway rests on the blackened steel structure of a 1901 Vepco levee, a hydro power dam that once harnessed power for riverfront industry along the James River. Hargreaves Associates authored the 2012 Riverfront Plan, identifying the dam as the first project for implementation: An adaptive reuse, providing a non-motorized, universally accessible route across the James River rapids, connecting south bank Manchester & the James River Park System with north bank downtown Richmond.

The Hargreaves-designed project retrofits the weathered steel structure, widening it for cycling and pedestrian use, bringing more people out over the rushing river, while kayakers and rafters drift into Class IV rapids. On the south bank, the path hugs the 35’ tall Civil War-era Richmond and Petersburg railroad embankment. The tree-lined path curves around both sides of the steep embankment, ascending the downriver slope, culminating with a promontory view of the city skyline, and a bridge connection to Manchester.

Mayor Dwight Jones opened the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge in Richmond, Virginia on 2 December 2016.

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Recipient of three awards: a 2016 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, a 2016 Justice Facilities Review Design Award from the AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice (AAJ) and a 2016 AIA South Atlantic Region (SAR) Design Award. Hargreaves Associates was consulted as the landscape architect. Award Link

Today Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Public Design Commission (PDC) announced this year’s winners of the commission’s annual Awards for Excellence in Design.

“These thoughtful and innovative designs support the de Blasio administration’s commitment to providing quality, equitable, and resilient public spaces to all New Yorkers. By utilizing good design principles, these projects will provide the public with increased access to the waterfront, open spaces and parks; improved places for play and community gatherings; and inspiring artworks,” said PDC president Signe Nielsen, co-founding principal of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, in a statement. Read more

Mary Margaret Jones is honored to be a panelist for the session “Learning from Landscape Architects” Event Information

Mary Lydecker, Panelist Event Information

Kirt Rieder and Mary Margaret Jones panelists for “City to Neighborhood: Planning and Design on the Post Katrina Mississippi” Mary Margaret Jones panelist on “The Evolution of Urban Rivers” and “The Primacy of Program: Is it Lowering the Value of Design?” Event Information Meeting Highlights

Hargreaves Associates is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded the 2016 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The National Design Awards recognize excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines in 11 categories. Now in its 17th year, the annual awards were established to promote design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world. Winners are selected based on the level of excellence, innovation and public impact of their body of work. Museum Director Caroline Baumann said: “This year’s class of winners reflect design’s remarkable empathy for contemporary social concerns…these designers and design firms cross disciplinary boundaries, explore innovative materials and develop new models of problem-solving in pursuit of these goals.”

Founded in 1897, Cooper Hewitt is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. First Lady Michelle Obama serves as the Honorary Patron for this year’s National Design Awards, which was first launched at the White House in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council. Read more.

Hargreaves Associates is pleased to announce that we were awarded the 2016 Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize at the 9th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona, Spain on September 30th. The Rosa Barba Prize was formulated in 1999 as a European prize and is now international with the intent to raise the discourse on landscape architecture globally and to celebrate world-class projects that make a difference.

The prize was awarded for our work on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, a project that the Mayor of London called “the winner of the Games” and that transformed a 274 acre derelict brownfield site and channelized river into the public realm that formed the centerpiece of the Games and the legacy park for future generations to enjoy – and to catalyze urban, ecological, economic and social change to London’s East End.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park was one of 10 finalists’ projects from around the world and was lauded by the jury as “strategic, holistic, catalytic and intelligent. It remediates, transforms and activates. It points to prioritizing well-designed public realm parkland and environmental remediation as the primary center-pieces for urban re-development, and is an example of landscape architects ‘leading the way’ through complex multi-disciplinary projects.”

We are also pleased to announce that we will be honored at the annual gala at the Cooper Hewitt Museum on October 20th as this year’s recipients of the National Design Award in Landscape Architecture. Now in its 17th year, the annual awards were established to promote design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world. Winners are selected based on the level of excellence, innovation and public impact of their body of work. Read more.

Hargreaves Associates will be providing full design services for the 13 acre park under the new bridge.

Downtown East Commons, which opened last week, is a new kind of public space for Minneapolis. While our older parks such as Loring and Elliot are designed to be calming escapes from city life, the Commons celebrates the city itself. Read more.