BROCKTON CITY HALL

BROCKTON, MA

CLIENT: The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Gateway City Parks Program

COMPLETION: 2015

The City of Brockton sought to revitalize this important downtown open space by rehabilitaing historic City Hall Plaza. BRR’s design includes historically appropriate lighting, an accessible amphitheatre with granite seatwalls and a stage for municipal celebrations, food vendors and musicians. The project improved the settings for existing memorials such as the Strand Memorial which honors the Brockton firefighters who died in the Strand Theater fire and the Thomas Edison Memorial.

ANDERSON MEMORIAL BRIDGE + MEMORIAL DRIVE

CAMBRIDGE, MA

CLIENT: Department of Conservation and Recreation + MassDOT

COMPLETION: Memorial Drive Phases I and II and Anderson Memorial Bridge

Along the Charles River in Cambridge, Brown, Richardson + Rowe completed the the first two phases of the Rehabilitation of Memorial Drive as part of the Historic Parkways Initiative. Memorial Drive was originally used by horse-drawn carriages. First designed by Charles Eliot and the Olmsted firm, the historic landscape contained character-defining features such as attractive iron railings and large framed deciduous trees planted in a linear pattern along the river. Tetra Tech and BRR widened the park land by reducing the width of the roadway and added pedestrian and bicycle trails and returned the character defining features to the parkland. With Stantec and McGinley Kalsow, we protected the historic features that give the Anderson Memorial Bridge and its approaches their historic character. The landscape construction documents covered tree replacements, meadow restoration, riverbank planting, path improvements and LED lights.