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Hargreaves Associates led the design for the 274 acre parklands that formed the centerpiece for the London Games, recognized as the ‘Greenest Games’ in history, with the park declared the ‘winner of the Games’ by the Mayor of London. Read more.

Hargreaves Associates was awarded the 2016 SCUP Excellence in Planning for a District or Campus Component Merit Award. SCUP offers an awards program that recognizes excellence in planning, design and implementation efforts of firms and institutions, as well as the achievements of individuals whose lives and passions involve higher education.

The prize was awarded for our work on the Stanford School of Medicine Space Master Plan. The jury commented on as “space analysis master plan is compelling and it was well done”. The Space Master Plan identifies future space needs of the School of Medicine, qualitatively and quantitatively. It identifies two scenarios that accommodate these needs in the most appropriate facilities, locations and adjacencies to enhance the collective mission of learning, patient care, and research. The plan identifies the criteria used to evaluate space scenarios and implementation strategies, and establishes planning goals that provide the framework for future decision-making and to shape the plan. Read more

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“Connecting green spaces, remediation, making people places, an approach into the city—every single problem is rolled into one package.” – 2015 Awards Jury

Hargreaves Associates led the consultant team and worked with the client, stakeholder agencies and neighborhood groups to develop an urban design plan and feasibility study for the redevelopment of the 45 acre Penn’s Landing site, with an emphasis on an integrated approach to the overall development strategy, infrastructure needs and public realm opportunities. The plan resulted in strategies for transportation systems, structural deck systems and the design concept for a world class 21st century urban park that will catalyze the realization of almost 2 million square feet of mixed-use waterfront development and result in an overall economic benefit of $1.6 billion for the city. After years of planning for Penn’s Landing, the Feasibility Study for the first time represents a plan embraced by all stakeholders and sets forth a clear path for funding, phasing and implementation of this long held ambition to connect downtown Philadelphia to the Delaware River.

Each year, the ASLA Professional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe. The award of excellence is the highest level, awarded to only one team in each of the six categories. Read more

Hargreaves Associates’ Crescent Park in New Orleans is a recipient of a 2015 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum. Hargreaves Associates led the design effort, collaborating with prime Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, and architects Adjaye/Architects and Michael Maltzan Architecture on the 2015 completion of the 1.4-mile long riverfront at the namesake curve of the Mississippi River. The fundamental success of the park is the transformation of a long off-limits rail corridor and decaying wharf complex into a linear landscape affording stunning views of downtown, and long absent direct access to the river for the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods.

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, have organized The American Architecture Awards as a way in which to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important architects and planners practicing nationally and internationally. The program awards pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.

With more than 3 million visitors a year, the city of Nashville realized it was losing an opportunity in regard to the Cumberland Riverfront. With the help of Hargreaves Associates, the government, many specialists, and a considerable private and public investment, the project went from paper to rock.

Water has always been the source of life, whether it is the ocean, a river or a lake. All great cities in history have been founded around or along a body of water: the River Thames in London, the Seine in Paris, New York Harbor and the Hudson river in New York City, Lake Michigan in Chicago, and the world-famous Nile River in Egypt. Read more.

The Hargreaves Associates-designed Crescent Park opened on 2 July 2015. The 1.4-mile long New Orleans park is the culmination of the New Orleans Building Corporation’s 2006 Reinventing the Crescent effort. Hargreaves led the design effort, collaborating with executive architect Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, and architects David Adjaye Associates and Michael Maltzan Architecture, to transform 20 acres of former port lands into a connective riverfront. The new park re-establishes pedestrian connections between the Bywater and Marginy neighborhoods, and the Mississippi River, while enticing French Quarter visitors to explore more of the Crescent City.

“It’s spectacular,” (Mayor) Landrieu said. “Most people don’t see the city from this view. I mean it’s the most spectacular view of the city, and if you think about the long term growth of the city of New Orleans, most cities in America are going back to their water.” Video link

“#1 A morning in Crescent Park”

Dreamed up post-Katrina and finally opened this past year, this waterfront park hugging the Mississippi in the city’s Bywater neighborhood isn’t just much-needed green space where you can catch the rare breeze off the river during the sultry summer months, Crescent Park is a fierce work of post-industrial art too, from the soaring, arched back of a bridge leading from the foot of Piety Street and over the railroad tracks (giving you a workout before you even arrive) to the Instagram-ready ruins of the old wharf at the river’s edge. Pleasant pathways, native plantings and skyline views complete the picture within the 1.4 mile linear park, providing a true escape from the city without going very far at all.” Full article

For a different view of Crescent Park, see the fly through by clicking here.

The Urban Land Institute named Denver Union Station as a winner of its 2015 Global Awards for Excellence. The annual program recognizes projects worldwide that achieve a high standard in design, construction, economics, planning, and management. The jury announced the ten winners at ULI’s 2015 Fall Meeting on October 6, 2015.

Since its initial phases opened in 2014, the Denver Union Station project has succeeded in revitalizing 19.5 acres in downtown Denver. New office, retail, and residential development surround the renovated Union Station, where multiple modes of transportation converge, including new bus, light rail, and passenger rail facilities. The public realm further facilitates connectivity, including promenades and streetscapes, plazas, urban gardens, and expanded bike facilities. Significant new destination public spaces include Wynkoop Plaza, the 17th Street Promenade and Gardens, and the Light Rail Plaza. This substantial public investment has catalyzed an unprecedented wave of private-sector activity, with over $1 billion in new projects shaping a transit-oriented precinct and new urban neighborhood. As the prime public realm designer, Hargreaves Associates worked together with AECOM and SOM to design this transformative project. Read more

Penn’s Landing Redevelopment Study has earned a National Recognition Award in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2015 Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) competition – the “Academy Awards of the engineering industry”. The National Recognition Award is a prestigious distinction honoring projects that demonstrate exceptional achievement in engineering. Read more

The City of New Orleans opened the Bywater portion of the 20-acre Crescent Park on 24 February. Crescent Park is the first built project of the 2007 Reinventing the Crescent master plan that detailed the reclaiming of the larger 6 mile long New Orleans riverfront, post-Katrina.

The linear park threads a narrow 1.4-mile band downriver of the French Quarter, between the Mississippi River, active rail tracks and floodwall. The park provides crucial public access to the river that has been the exclusive domain of thriving commercial wharves and accelerating industrial decay. Hargreaves Associates was lead designer of the park, collaborating with architects Adjaye Associates, and Michael Maltzan Architecture, in addition to local executive architect and long-time collaborator, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple.

In an article for the The Times-Picayune, Doug MacCash writes, “The long awaited Crescent Park that hugs the riverfront in the Bywater neighborhood is a landscape design masterpiece…The shadows and architectural severity lend the park a certain existential quality. The monumental burned skeleton of an adjacent wharf remains picturesquely in place at the waterline. Some of the running paths enigmatically dead end into the river.? Read more