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Delighted to join agency & community partners and elected officials yesterday to celebrate the long-awaited opening of the new 1.15-acre public park in the heart of

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This morning, and DBP held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of Abolitionist Place, a new 1.15-acre public space in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn.

The new open space, designed by , includes a children’s play area, lawns, dog run, waterplay feature, ornamental plantings, and multiple seating areas.


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A huge thank you to all that shared your ideas and vision for the future River Reach Park with our team last Saturday at Winterfest! Missed us last week? Join us TOMORROW for our first community workshop at the Windsor Ave Community Center from 11am-2pm!

This event is indoors and perfect for a rainy day! 🌧️ ☂️

Share your ideas for the future park, learn about the site, enjoy free snacks, a photo booth, and games! This event is for all ages and abilities. We can’t wait to see you there!

📅 TOMORROW, Jan. 13th from 11am-2pm.
📍 330 Windsor Ave, Windsor, CT.

Learn more about this project and stay up to date: https://riverfront.org/newpark/

We were honored to have worked with Robert Irwin to reimagine Carpenter Park in Dallas and the re-positioning of his sculpture, Portal Park Slice - both on the site and within his body of work. It was the first time Bob had changed one of his early works in response to changed conditions, and its arcing filigree ends animate the plaza under the freeway, extending from the hill it seemingly slices.

The park was completed in 2022, and we are pleased he was able to participate before his passing. He changed the art world with his work and conceptual approach to conditional art and he will be missed. 

Join us in congratulating Principal Kirt Rieder for being elevated to this year’s ASLA Council of Fellows! Kirt is being recognized for his exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. The Fellowship in Practice recognizes Kirt’s leadership in creating built landscapes that restore the environment and impact our lives, and is among the highest honors bestowed in our profession.

Some of the distinguished built landscapes by Kirt over the years include:

Crescent Park, New Orleans
T Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge, Richmond Virginia
Crissy Field, San Francisco

Come celebrate Kirt and other new Fellows at the Council of Fellows Investiture Dinner

Sunday, October 29, 2023

7:00pm – 10pm CT

Location: Hilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis Grand Ballroom

Don’t miss this insightful education session today led by Associate Principal Jing Fan that explores the technical challenges and range of strategies for designing and engineering public open space on new and existing structures.

FRI-D07: Below the Surface: Strategies for Designing Big Parks on Complex Structures

Friday, October 27, 2023

3:30pm – 4:30pm CT

Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, Room 101DE

Lead Speaker:
Jing Fan

Speaker:
Andrew Lavallee
Nathan J. Palmer

We’re excited to head to Minneapolis for a weekend of learning, celebrating, and networking at the . Make sure to say hello and check out our sessions!

Come join our Principal Mary Lydecker as she leads a tour of The Commons as part of a field session that explores the resurgence of Downtown East Minneapolis and reviews the synergy between public and private development.

FS-10: Re-embracing the Mississippi Riverfront & the Evolution of Downtown East

Friday, October 27, 2023

10:15am – 4:45pm CT

Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, Field Session Departure Area 3, Level 1

Leaders:
Jean M. Garbarini
Sandra G. Rolph

 Presenters:
Tadd Kreun
Kate M. Lamers
Mary Lydecker

We’re excited to head to Minneapolis for a weekend of learning, celebrating, and networking at the . Make sure to say hello and check out our sessions!

Come join our Principal Mary Lydecker as she leads a tour of The Commons as part of a field session that explores the resurgence of Downtown East Minneapolis and reviews the synergy between public and private development.

FS-10: Re-embracing the Mississippi Riverfront & the Evolution of Downtown East

Friday, October 27, 2023

10:15am – 4:45pm CT

Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, Field Session Departure Area 3, Level 1

Leaders:
Jean M. Garbarini
Sandra G. Rolph

Presenters:
Tadd Kreun
Kate M. Lamers
Mary Lydecker

This weekend, City officials gathered for the groundbreaking for our Sixth Street Viaduct Park Project!

The Viaduct (opened last year) and park create a multi-modal connector that includes pedestrian, bike and vehicular access, transforming the LA River, at this point at least, from a historic divide to an attractive series of open spaces that bring a diverse range of communities together.

The design of the park organizes the proposed program elements around a series of curvilinear pathways that reflect the new Viaduct’s graceful structural archways. As a unique landscape set in two distinct neighborhoods the urban park is designed to be flexible and respond to the desire that it serve as a respite from the surrounding infrastructure-dominated environment; be a place for community gatherings, festivals, and events; and provide access to the L.A. River.

“The park and the bridge will be one big jungle gym,” said Deborah Weintraub, Chief Deputy City Engineer with the Bureau of Engineer

What a way to celebrate summer solstice! ☀️

Yesterday the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City celebrated the longest day of the year with an annual special cultural observance. The setting of the sun was the highlight and at exactly 8pm, the solstice sun rests at the peak of the 80-foot high mound – interpreting the continuous ascension from the land to the sky. The mound is a cosmological clock tracking the sun’s movements, and a passageway cut through the dramatic landform frames the setting sun during winter solstice.

The successful event featured First American dancing, cultural demonstrations and reflections, and showcased traditional summer dwellings and structures, including a Southeastern Arbor, Chickasaw Toompalli Chokka, Wichita Grass House, Plains Tipi and Potawatomi Wigwam.

We are thrilled to announce that we have teamed up with and find ourselves in the company of incredible talent on the shortlist for the reimagination of the Dallas Art Museum.

“The Museum is focused on better serving the diverse city of Dallas and being a dynamic connector where people of all cultures feel welcomed and embraced. Stronger civic connections will reaffirm the DMA as the anchor of the Dallas Arts District and connect it to surrounding neighborhoods. Overall, the DMA's project aims to improve the museum’s engagement with its communities, forge deeper civic ties, transform the visitor experience with new facilities, and expand educational and gallery space. The competition's first stage began in February 2023, with 154 team submissions worldwide. The DMA's Architect Selection Committee decided to shortlist six teams.”

Christ & Gantenbein , MOS architects , Sam Jacob Studio , Buro Happold ,

Silver Lake Reservoir Complex Master Plan receives the 2023 ASLA-NORCAL Honor Award!

As habitat disappears and species populations diminish at alarming rates, re-introducing wilderness into our cities offers a means to not only offset habitat losses, but also demonstrate how we can coexist with wildlife in our urban environments.

The Master Plan proposes to introduce freshwater wetlands and aquatic habitat for the first time in over 100 years, an ecology that was slowly erased to meet the needs of a growing Los Angeles and restores remnant woodland habitat from the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Woven within these bold environmental design moves are an extensive network of trails, a promenade, gardens, and flexible lawns for the community to connect with nature and one another.

The Master Plan envisions a resilient legacy park that will endure for generations.
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Last week, Mary Lydecker (Principal/CAM), Annie Phaosawasdi (Associate Principal/NY) and Jing Fan (Associate Principal/NY) were invited to visit Bega’s factory in Carpinteria, CA ☀️

Thank you to all that came to our panel on Saturday! The 300 seats were sold out and people were lined up to sit on the floor! 🎉
On April 1st, Associate Principal Annie Phaosawasdi joined by John Gasparine of .usa (left), Jack Robbins of (middle) and Yuri Chang of .strategies (right) spoke on a panel discussing Equity + Infrastructure at the 2023 American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference.
The panel discussed how cities, agencies, and commercial industries can apply an equity lens to infrastructure policies and projects, and how infrastructure investment benefits from an equity-minded design and planning approach.

Associate Principal Annie Phaosawasdi will speak on the panel discussion Equity + Infrastructure at the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference on Saturday, April 1st, at 12:00 PM.
New infrastructure planning projects – decking over urban highway cuts, rethinking transit stations, improving coastline resiliency, harnessing offshore wind energy, and more – offer once-in-a-generation opportunities to design and co-create with communities.
The discussion will focus on how the equity lens directs their thinking as they shape these new projects, describe the challenges, and explain strategies that help to resolve them.
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Scissortail Park has been nominated for the following. Please vote!!
- Best Outdoor Concert
- Best Sprayground
https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-outdoor-concert-series-2023/
https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-splash-pad-2023/
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Scissortail Park has been nominated for TWO 2023 Readers’ Choice awards by USA TODAY !

Best Outdoor Concert Series
* Scissortail Park Summer Concert Series

Best Splash Pad
* Scissortail Sprayground

You can vote for us in each category once per day through Monday, April 17, 2023.
 
We are thrilled to be nominated with so many other great destinations across the country!
 
Help us take home the win!
(Voting links available in bio.)
 
https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-outdoor-concert-series-2023/
 
https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-splash-pad-2023/
 
Our 2023 Concert Series and opening day for our FREE splash pad are coming up soon in May!

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The American Institute of Architects has named Parks for Downtown Dallas the recipient of its 2023 Collaborative Achievement Award for its role in creating four parks in the heart of Dallas.
As the population increased, the need for parks that connect neighborhoods, bolster the community’s health, and improve the city’s environment became clear. Carpenter Park is one of the four planned outdoor spaces.
teamed up with design professionals from SWA, Hargreaves Jones, James Corner Field Operations and Ten Eyck Landscape Architects to bring the parks to life.
The AIA Collaborative Achievement Award, recognizes the excellence that results when architects work with those from outside the profession to improve the spaces where people live and work.
First Image photo credit: Dallas Morning News

Celebrating 15 years in Discovery Green!
Since 2008 Discovery Green has had:

- nearly 2 Billion in development in a 2 block radius
- 20 Million visitors
- 10,300 events
- 760+ birthdays celebrated
- 2,000 hours of free fitness classes
- 26 temporary art installations
- 6 permanent pieces of art
Discovery Green has transformed downtown Houston!
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Stay tuned for upcoming NCAA march madness music festival!!

On Monday, February 27 gave its contractor approval to begin construction on the $328.9 million contract, a long-awaited project that will put a highway cap over a stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.

The cap will be home to nearly 12 acres of parkland and seamlessly connect Old City to the Delaware River waterfront at Penn’s Landing.

Construction is starting! We're excited about this very important step toward the new . Learn more about this upcoming project at DRWC's link in bio.

TOMORROW MARCH 8TH at 5:30 PM EST!

The Spring 2023 Baumer Lecture Series continues with Mary Margaret Jones and Charles Renfro in conversation with Kristi Cheramie and Phu Hoang in Knowlton Hall's Gui Auditorium.

Mary Margaret Jones is President and CEO of Hargreaves Jones, leading the firm’s offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Cambridge. Mary Margaret has over 30 years of experience, demonstrating the power of investing in the public realm to transform cities, institutions, communities, and individuals. She holds board positions with the American Academy in Rome; The Architectural League NY; the Regional Plan Association; and ODC Dance in San Francisco. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects; Fellow of the Urban Design Forum in New York; and Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

Charles Renfro is a Partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print. He led the design and construction of the studio’s first concert hall outside of the US—The Tianjin Juilliard School in China—as well as the studio’s first public park outside of the US—Zaryadye Park in Moscow. Charles is the Co-President of BOFFO, a nonprofit organization that supports the work of q***r LGBTQ+ BIPOC artists and designers. He has twice been recognized with the “Out100” list, and also distinguished as a notable LGBTQ leader by Crain’s New York Business. He is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts.

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Mary Margaret Jones, Zhiyu Wei (middle) and Karissa Campos (left) of HJ-NY, teach a virtual class on designing with clay, for the landscape students at The City College of New York.
Clay modeling combined with digital design softwares, is a unique and informative process in creating and visualizing spaces. Clay has played a very important role in our design process and has been our specialty!
Swipe left to see pictures of some of our clay models as well as George Hargreaves giving a desk crit in the office!

This week Mary Margaret Jones was in Phoenix celebrating the opening of the Gardens at Margaret T. Hance Park - Phase 2 in a multi-phase revitalization project.

Margaret T. Hance Park caps over I-95 in downtown Phoenix and provides a green oasis in a rapidly growing urban neighborhood. Once all phases are complete, this will be the first smart park in the country with zero net energy usage.

Looking forward to all the future phases of implementation!

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Hargreaves Jones is thrilled to recognize three significant promotions for 2023!

Jing Fan (left) is also being promoted to Associate Principal. Jing’s role in managing large complex projects, production organization, and her deep technical skills as well as design abilities make her a leader in the office and the field, as well as a strong mentor to others.

Annie Phaosawasdi (middle) is being promoted to Associate Principal in recognition of the leadership she has shown and the responsibilities she has undertaken throughout her time here. She is joined by our new member, Noodle, Associate Dachshund

Danae Alessi (right) is being promoted to Sr. Associate. Danae has taken on the management of challenging work in construction documents and field observation with dedication to detail and getting things right. She works with subs and clients through the difficult issues that often arise in these phases of work, while leading others within the office.

Please join us in congratulating these three outstanding women on our team.
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The Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, NH recently won an AIA Merit Award. We were honored to work alongside a great team led by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to build this project.

The Hood Museum of Art, designed originally Charles W. Moore and Chad Floyd in 1985 underwent extensive renovations and expansions, including the addition of five new galleries, a multipurpose lobby, and the revamped Bernstein Center for Object-Based Inquiry and a new entry plaza. The renovation modernized the building while preserving its original character. The surrounding plaza and entry space seamlessly integrates into its surroundings, navigating subtle grade changes with the use of stairs and ramps. The modern paving palette creates clear and open site lines, complementing the character of the new Museum.

As part of our recently completed project in Oklahoma City, Scissortail Park includes a 4-acre man-made lake with wetlands designed to collect and reuse stormwater for irrigating across the entire 70-acre park, resulting in not only potable water conservation but also cost savings to the City.

"We're already seeing cost savings from using this water — reusing the water — and cost savings from using native plant materials too," said Lance Swearengin, director of horticulture and grounds for the Scissortail Park Foundation. "We have times of drought that can be pretty excessive like we are in right now, so demonstrating those water conservation aspects to the public can help reduce water in residential gardens." https://lnkd.in/gkfbBweK

A series of informational signage helps educate visitors and residents on the ways in which the park collects, retains, and reuses water throughout the park.

We are so happy when we get to see our research efforts result in measurable results that address the impacts of climate change.

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New York State has selected our team, lead by PAU Architects, to design the new Niagara Falls Heritage Gateways Project.

The project will include gateway structures and new park aimed at enhancing connections between downtown and the Niagara Falls State Park.

"It is by building on a foundation of shared history — instead of trying to reinvent cities from scratch — that we truly strengthen and benefit communities. Public infrastructure is at the center of successful urbanism — we applaud New York State for championing public spaces and architecture that connect us to our narratives, to our environment, and to one another." - Vishaan Chakrabarti, PAU

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Carpenter Park is named Best New Park in Best of Big D 2022!

"At 6 acres, this expansion and complete reimagining of the former Carpenter Plaza is now the largest park in the city’s urban core. That’s the headline. The real story for us: Robert Irwin’s wonderful reinterpretation of one of his own works, now titled Portal Park Slice. And downtown’s first outdoor basketball court. And fountains."

A couple weeks ago at Scissortail Park, worms were "planted" to improve soil quality.

Good soil = Happy Plants! 🌱🌿