2016 Landscape Architecture Design Annual

2016

Landscape Architecture | 2016

Introduction We are pleased to present our 2016 Design Annual, our inaugural edition celebrating the depth and breadth of our international practice. The projects exhibited here demonstrate the varying scale, scope, and collaborative nature of our work. You will see that our work touches many aspects of the built environment—and we are proud to have played and continue to play such an impactful role in shaping and enhancing our communities and elevating the human experience.

As one of the largest landscape architecture practices in North America, we offer extraordinary creativity, capacity, and commitment to design excellence. We look forward to future collaboration and many successful achievements together.

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Featured Work Poppy Plaza | Calgary, Alberta Armenian Heritage Park—Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway | Boston, Massachusetts Heritage Field and Ruppert Plaza at Macombs Dam Park | Bronx, New York Bioretention Garden Research and Development | Various Locations Temple Beth Elohim | Wellesley, Massachusetts Maggie Daley Park Ice Ribbon | Chicago, Illinois Alga Norte Community Skatepark | Carlsbad, California Filsinger Park—Stream Reconstruction | Kitchener, Ontario 14th Street Viaduct | Hoboken, New Jersey Washington Beech | Roslindale, Massachusetts RiverWalk Urban Waterfront | Calgary, Alberta Mafraq Medical Center | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Japanese Pond Garden—Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, New York University of Massachusetts Medical School—Albert Sherman Center | Worcester, Massachusetts Route 9A—Complete Street, Manhattan | New York, New York Open Hearth Park | Sydney, Nova Scotia Hawrelak Park—Water Play Experience | Edmonton, Alberta Tawam Medical Center | Al Ain, United Arab Emirates New York State Play Areas Guidebook | State of New York Parks Novant Health BMX Supercross Track | Rock Hill, South Carolina University of Massachusetts—Commonwealth Honors College | Amherst, Massachusetts West 5 Urban Design Guidelines and Master Plan | London, Ontario NewBridge on the Charles | Dedham, Massachusetts Saadiyat Island | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Greenwich Country Day School | Greenwich, Connecticut Washington Street Park | Tampa, Florida Reconstruction of the Great Lawn and Surrounding Landscapes in Central Park | New York, New York

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Poppy Plaza Calgary, Alberta Canadians, past and present, left their homes, traveled to foreign lands, and laid down their lives to protect the future of all Canadians.

The City of Calgary honors these individuals every day through the “Landscape of Memory” initiative, a program that focuses on these brave men and women. Poppy Plaza transformed a marginal green strip on Memorial Drive to do just that, creating a thriving public space and venue for commemorative public events such as Remembrance Day. We led the design of Poppy Plaza, in collaboration with our engineering, geotechnical, and lighting experts, and partnered with an architecture consultant to create an iconic public space. Water-jet-cut and back-lit weathered steel surfaces define vertical shifts and transition areas to display commemorative elements.

Roy Ooms

Our design team addressed significant construction, fabrication, and jurisdictional challenges to create Poppy Plaza, as a new gateway to the Kensington district and a respectful remembrance of Calgary’s veterans.

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Roy Ooms

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Peter Vanderwarker

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Armenian Heritage Park—Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Boston, Massachusetts This park, a gift to the city from the Armenian American community, pays homage to the immigrant’s journey, commemorates the 1.5 million Armenian-Americans killed in the Armenian genocide, and provides a tranquil link between the urban landscapes of two highly traveled tourist destinations.

A contemplative labyrinth is at the center of its design. Paved in granite and set in the lawn, it celebrates and commemorates

life’s journey. Another focal point is an abstract dodecahedron sculpture that can be reconfigured every year, much like the shifting nature of immigrant communities as they establish themselves in America.

While the park is simple and elegant in design, the detailing and craftsmanship of its features are meticulous, inviting, and a fitting tribute to the shared experience of the journey home.

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Peter Vanderwarker

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Tim Schenck

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Heritage Field and Ruppert Plaza at Macombs Dam Park Bronx, New York Within the footprint of old Yankee Stadium now sits Heritage Field, the centerpiece of the stadium site’s redevelopment and home to little league, softball, and championship baseball fields. Bleacher and landform seating areas are nestled within landscaped perimeters of grasses, shrubs, and trees around each of the three fields. The park also features a recreational and exercise loop, ball field fencing, and team seating areas. Custom features pay homage to the original stadium including a granite paver timeline, a distinctive turf inlay of the former field footprint, a “ticket stub” wall plaques and benches, and a large scale display of one of baseball’s most recognized quotations from Lou Gehrig’s “luckiest man” speech.

As a true community resource, the fields are accessible from the adjacent street network.

The community also has access from several points along Ruppert Plaza, which visually and physically links Heritage Field to other park areas, creating one cohesive active and passive recreation space for both residents of the nearby community and millions of visitors to Yankee Stadium to enjoy. The design includes a variety of gathering spaces, substantial landscape planting, decorative paving, a grand stair, and an elevated walkway providing access to the adjacent Macombs Dam Rooftop Park.

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Tim Schenck

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Tim Schenck

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Nelson Memorial Park Rehabilitation, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Bioretention Garden Research and Site Implementation Various Locations Our team of designers and scientists devised cost-effective strategies to enhance the appearance and performance of bioretention gardens in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center.

By integrating landscape design, horticulture, and civil engineering in a balanced approach, we developed and refined cost-effective design solutions for soil preparation and plant selection to achieve high performing, beautiful, and sustainable bioretention gardens.

Gregg Shupe

Our research and subsequent application demonstrated superior phosphorus removal from stormwater flows, a primary goal of this initiative. That’s the part you don’t see. The beauty of these installations are exhibited in several of our projects, such as the Nelson Memorial Park Rehabilitation (left) which includes a stormwater bioretention basin to eliminate untreated stormwater discharge.

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Charles Mayer

Community Rowing Boat House and Riverwalk, Brighton, Massachusetts

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Temple Beth Elohim Wellesley, Massachusetts A truly sacred space blurs the line between interior and exterior, creating a spiritual and emotional connection from all points. Our design responded to the congregation’s wishes for a holistic space that, both inside and out, focuses on learning, prayer, and community enrichment. Embracing the site’s naturally beautiful landscape features, landform, and woodland views, we integrated the building with its surroundings and spiritual purpose.

Architect: William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc., Photo by: Bruce T. Martin

Materials resembling those found in Israel are woven into the design. Smooth granite slab stepping stones, loose stone pebble paving, and Jerusalem Stone wall cladding maintain a subtle warmth and intimacy fostering quiet contemplation and spiritual engagement.

Sustainability was an important part of the temple’s mission and was manifested in the site design. A sculptural stormwater management feature was incorporated into the main entry area, porous asphalt was used in the parking lots and a shared parking strategy was developed with the abutting elementary school to reduce the amount of paved areas required for the project.

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Architect: William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc., Photo by: Bruce T. Martin

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The Ice Ribbon at Maggie Daley Park Chicago, Illinois Chicago is buzzing during the summer, but what happens when the Midwestern winter hits? Looking to make Maggie Daley Park an attraction for visitors year round, the Chicago Park District looked to a team, including our ice and aquatic venue design specialists, to develop a unique vision for a new downtown waterfront park.

A component of that vision is a quarter-mile ice ribbon—the largest in the United States— that winds through the park landscape, emulating the form of the adjacent pedestrian bridge designed by Frank Gehry. The ribbon features 2-3% grades for additional dimension to the skating experience and blends within the contours of the park.

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Much of the ribbon is built atop lightweight foam fill to minimize loads on the existing parking structure below the park. Designed for skating from November through March, the system incorporates multiple cooling zones to relieve stress induced from thermal movements. In the summer, the ice ribbon transforms to a public pathway to complete its year-round functionality.

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Blair Alley

Alga Norte Community Skatepark Carlsbad, California Our action sport designers helped recreate history in the birthplace of skateparks. The world’s first skatepark was built in Carlsbad, CA, in the 1970s and since then the city hadn’t had a modern, professional-grade skatepark to call their own—until now. The Alga Norte Skatepark came to life thanks to extensive community involvement and participation from several professional skaters during design charrettes.

We created this skate park by wrapping it around a retention basin, giving it a flowing look and providing wonderful views. Its aesthetics are enhanced further with an urban plaza theme, integrating a color palette to reflect the prevalent Spanish style architecture, and a transition arch inspired by the shape of Carlsbad’s historic mission.

Design Annual | 27

Tadashi Photo

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Tadashi Photo

Nick Wong

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Filsinger Park—Stream Reconstruction Kitchener, Ontario The reconstruction focused on stream performance, function and aesthetics. Taking more than 1.8 kilometers of concrete channel and restoring it back to a natural stream required experts who understood the desired project performance metrics.

Our stream naturalization and stabilization strategy needed to work with habitat restoration, stormwater engineering, and flood plain modeling parameters. Of equal importance was integration of the stream corridor within the park and designing for access to the water’s edge, aesthetics, planting design, and long-term maintenance.

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14th Street Viaduct Hoboken, New Jersey

We also activated the previously unused spaces beneath the viaduct, creating safe and attractive public recreation and gathering space for the community. The new viaduct allowed groundlevel brownfield areas to be repurposed into valued community spaces in the shadows of an iconic regional landmark.

J. Michael Worthington, Jr.

J. Michael Worthington, Jr.

J. Michael Worthington, Jr.

When the 14st Street Viaduct needed replacement, we led the effort to integrate the new structure into the context of its historic surroundings. Interpreting history in a modern context, we carefully selected architectural treatments and finishes that fit the community’s character.

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Stantec Landscape Architecture | 2016 Architect: ICON Architecture, Inc., Photo by: Charles Mayer

Charles Mayer

Architect: ICON Architecture, Inc., Photo by: Charles Mayer

Architect: ICON Architecture, Inc., Photo by: Charles Mayer

Washington Beech Roslindale, Massachusetts The transformation of a severely deteriorated Boston Housing Authority public housing property into an inviting neighborhood required more than demolition and new construction.

The complex, consisting of 326 units within a 5-story mid-rise building and low-rise, 3-story town homes, required a broader vision to create a vibrant new community for this Hope VI federally funded initiative We needed to create a real neighborhood. So, we included private back yards and private entries. We replaced stretches of asphalt with landscape and patios. We included a community center on the ground floor of the

mid-rise building, projecting a welcoming and close-knit neighborhood. We also incorporated a 5 acre public park in the center of the new neighborhood to provide a venue for active and passive recreation, and positive community interaction.

The design achieved LEED Gold certification facilitated in part by our landscape architecture design: planning impervious pavement reduction; high-reflectivity in paved surfaces mitigated by tree canopy heat capture; site shade patterns; native planting schemes; and water conservation measures.

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Roy Ooms

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RiverWalk Urban Waterfront Calgary, Alberta The RiverWalk is an expansive new active and passive park now linking three communities that were once divided by an environmentally contaminated site. By capturing the community’s spirit and engaging numerous stakeholders, the design and resulting greenway has exceeded community expectations and demonstrates the federal and provincial government’s ability to lead development of a world-class community park.

The RiverWalk is built on a remediated site with contaminated material encapsulated underground. Above, the extensive palette of native plant materials and sustainable and highly crafted hardscapes are woven together by naturalized landform and pathways that create a cohesive greenway connecting neighboring riverfront communities.

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Roy Ooms

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Liam Farrell

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Liam Farrell

Mafraq Medical Center Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The landscape design embraces architectural form and makes use of equally compelling volumetric forms that emanate from the structures. Views to the landscape from the dialysis treatment pods were carefully considered to provide a sense of well-being and instill a calming effect for patients undergoing extended treatment.

Materials selection and detailing, scale, sun and shade patterns, and integration of plant material define space and contribute to the beneficial treatment of the center.

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Tim Holmstrom

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Tim Holmstrom

Japanese Hill and Pond Garden—Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn, New York Our team’s challenge with the restoration of this 1915 historic garden was to integrate traditional materials, detailing, and spatial definition with modern pond construction details and site infrastructure. The combination of these elements ensures long-term durability and ease of maintenance of the garden.

Custom and innovative details were implemented using authentic materials and uncompromising conformance to traditional Japanese garden design. Research, design, and execution of custom details and material selection resulted in a harmonious and awardwinning restoration design.

Design Annual | 45

Stantec Landscape Architecture | 2016 Architect: ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Photo by: Gregg Shupe

Architect: ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Photo by: Gregg Shupe

Gregg Shupe

University of Massachusetts Medical School— Albert Sherman Center Worcester, Massachusetts The Albert Sherman Center is an 11-story, state-of-the-art biomedical research facility prominently located within 5.5 acres of land at the northwest corner of the University of Massachusetts Medical School campus. With its prominent location within the campus and the surrounding community, the center forms a new campus core that fosters staff collaboration and establishes a gateway to the campus quadrangle through new public plazas.

The plazas are defined by granite seat walls, grids of honeylocust shade trees, paving bands, and swaths of groundcover that play off the acute angle of the building façade. Through

the integration of architecture and site design, two gateways sited to the north and south of the Sherman Center visually and physically connect pedestrians to the campus core.

The plaza’s geometry emulates the RNA molecule, a single helix, recognizing its scientific importance and significant role it played in the notoriety of the school. Custom details and materials, such as a 12” wide granite edge, under-lit granite seating, and stainless steel wind screens, define the helix and provide an inviting outdoor environment for center patrons.

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Brent Gollnick

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Brent Gollnick

Route 9A—Complete Street, Manhattan New York, New York When the New York State Department of Transportation asked us to develop alternatives to Westway decades ago, a controversial roadway project that was to replace the deteriorated West Side Highway, a concept emerged for a pedestrian-friendly, multi-modal, safe, efficient, and attractive corridor to serve transportation needs and open access to the city’s waterfront. Through extensive community outreach, we developed a landscaped boulevard concept that, now in place, sparked the exciting resurgence of Manhattan’s west side.

Involved in every stage and aspect of the plan, from concept to implementation, we watched the vision turn into reality when the unthinkable happened and the lower portion of the roadway was destroyed on 9/11. Eager to support our community and our client, we went right back to work, initially to provide emergency work for the interim roadway, and later to work with the state to help fulfill the enduring vision for a complete at-grade boulevard with plenty of urban civic space.

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Open Hearth Park Sydney, Nova Scotia The Sydney Tar Ponds was once the site of the second largest steel plant in North America— and one of the most contaminated sites in Canada. Today, it is a treasured public park reconnecting three divided neighborhoods back into a unified community.

Prominent gateways provide access from nearby neighborhoods into the park. Over 4 kilometers of multi-use paths and two pedestrian bridges provide scenic walks. Our design included waterfront access, baseball and football fields, outdoor performance areas, an adventure playground, and 80 acres of wildlife habitat.

Our landscape architects and engineers worked closely together to address the strict geotechnical requirements related to site remediation. All foundations, utilities, and landscape elements were constructed within newly placed soils on top of the capped site.

To create landform, we used abundant supplies of local slag material, reducing project costs substantially.

Julian Parkinson

In a nod to the site’s industrial history, our design included an interpretative design strategy fostered by several public meetings to generate ideas from the heart of the community. We reached out to local artists to create several interpretative pieces found in the park’s landscape. Each provide context, and celebrate the 400-year documented history of this Cape Breton community.

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Julian Parkinson

Julian Parkinson

Julian Parkinson

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Julian Parkinson

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Old Palm Golf Club Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Old Palm Golf Club is designed to embody the elegance and distinction of Palm Beach’s “Golden Age.” The 38,000 square foot clubhouse reflects the Moorish style of architecture popular in Palm Beach. The community master plan carries this design further with Mediterranean arches and ornate iron gates at the entry.

The project includes primarily low-density, single-family upscale homes, each benefiting from either spectacular golf course views or rock and waterscape amenities. Period lighting, flowering vines, and bronze sculptures highlight cobblestone drives to the homes and villas.

Extensive landscaping help enhance the golf experience while providing privacy for the estate properties.

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Hawrelak Park—Water Play Experience Edmonton, Alberta Sighted in a meadow nestled among existing trees and a children’s playground, is a unique and interactive water play experience for Edmonton families.

The water play concept is inspired by rippling waters. The charred wood cladding of the adjacent building lends character to enhance its simplistic box form. Hardscape and landscape combine to provide a unique play experience, allowing children to play and adults to gather and interact in an all-inclusive play environment.

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Liam Farrell

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Tawam Medical Center Al Ain, United Arab Emirates The landscape design creates a restorative green healing environment that comforts patients during their long periods of treatment and recovery. Through an ever changing landscape with a diverse palette of locally sourced native plants, seasonal flowering displays, visual accents, and distinctive masonry, the site design contributes to patient, family member, and caregiver well-being.

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Abdelaziz Kraba

Abdelaziz Kraba

Abdelaziz Kraba

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New York State Play Areas Guidebook State of New York Parks The New York State Play Areas Guidebook will inform the design of future playgrounds built throughout New York State’s parks system.

The guidebook assists in the planning and building process by outlining styles and themes

as well as showcasing specific play components that can be selected to achieve the chosen theme. In addition to the guidebook, the project included playground specifications and play equipment cut sheets to aid in streamlining the design and implementation process.

Design Annual | 67

Tonee McGuire

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Tonee McGuire

Novant Health BMX Supercross Track Rock Hill, South Carolina Part of the $4M Rock Hill Outdoor Center at Riverwalk, with trails, a mountain bike course, and a Velodrome, this new community amenity sets a new benchmark for competitive BMX cycling.

This brownfield site was transformed into a unique venue consisting of one of only two Olympic trial-worthy Bicycle Motocross Supercross race tracks in the United States.

Our team provided planning, landscape architecture design, and park master planning.

This public facility is open to the community, with a 32 foot tall starting hill for professional and Olympic trial uses and a world-class training track with a smaller starting hill for young children. The only other BMX facility run by the US Olympic committee limits access to Olympians in training and participants in exclusive events only, making Rock Hill’s Supercross track one of a kind.

Design Annual | 69

Stantec Landscape Architecture | 2016 Architect: William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc., Photo by: Robert Benson

Architect: William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc., Photo by: Robert Benson

University of Massachusetts— Commonwealth Honors College Amherst, Massachusetts After operating in scattered locations across the UMass campus, the Commonwealth Honors College wanted to bring its students together to provide a stronger sense of community for their prestigious program. The first challenge was to select a site that had the required prominence and proximity to the campus core. The selected site posed a number of major challenges, the most significant of which was a 35 foot grade change across the site.

Our team turned that potential problem into an asset, using the topography to create a series of terraces that provide an organizing element for the campus, unifying the architecture into the site and the campus. Each level has a

courtyard designed to have its own character, while contributing to an overall character of the campus. Groups can gather for outdoor classes on the granite amphitheater, relax on the open lawn areas or mingle on the outdoor seating areas. A main spine, or main street, connects the Honors College to the campus core.

The courtyards and pathways include over an acre of permeable pavers and a rain garden to help manage stormwater, contributing to LEED Silver certification. Integration is what the project was all about—creating a community for Honors students—without losing the connection to the campus.

Design Annual | 71

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West 5 Urban Design Guidelines and Master Plan London, Ontario West 5 will be a new 70 acre, mixed-use community featuring offices, shops, residences and public open space.

Utilizing the EnvisionTM Framework, West 5 will be the model of “smart� community design incorporating significant energy savings and renewable initiatives to promote healthy and sustainable lifestyles.

The master plan imparts a sense of place, connects the surrounding communities, and establishes a year-round retail and civic destination.

Our scope consisted of master planning and the development of urban design guidelines with a focus on complete streets, walkability, aesthetics and favorable return on investment.

Design Annual | 73

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Stantec Landscape Architecture | 2016 Architect: Perkins Eastman Architects; NBBJ, Photo by: Charles Mayer

Architect: Perkins Eastman Architects; NBBJ, Photo by: Charles Mayer

NewBridge on the Charles Dedham, Massachusetts Most campuses are designed around one purpose—a college campus for learning or a corporate campus for businesses, just to name a couple. Our design goal for the NewBridge campus along the Charles River was multi-purposed, bringing seniors and children together to learn, live, and interact in a comfortable outdoor setting. This estate property and former polo grounds now hosts a full continuum of senior services and a K-8 school. Intertwined within the sylvan landscape, a shared exterior trail network, gardens, and open space offer users of all ages the opportunity for casual and programmed interaction.

Environmental stewardship and low-impact design were the organizing principles in the design approach from the very beginning of the project. As such, the design plan focused on low impact design techniques to create a sustainable landscape including: the preservation of 100 acres of open space and forest, native drought-tolerant plantings and meadow seed mixes, central green roof/ courtyard space, vegetated swales, pervious pavement, infiltration systems, irrigation cisterns, and 500 geothermal wells.

Design Annual | 77

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Saadiyat Island Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The landscape design for the island’s parks incorporate soft courts, play areas, kiosks, and shaded seating areas that respond to the mixed uses proposed for Saadiyat Island. The parks provide a combination of youth and adventure play areas, multi-use pathways for cycling and jogging, and streetscapes and civic space set within lush landscaped environments comprised of native plant species.

Design Annual | 79

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Greenwich Country Day School Greenwich, Connecticut Greenwich Country Day School commenced a robust building and vehicular circulation program that also aimed to preserve, protect, and enhance the bucolic character of their campus. Defined by clapboard buildings, stone walls, lawns, shade trees, and paddock fencing, our design plan built upon these traditional New England landscape features.

Our work was detailed and highly site specific.

For example, a stately elm tree was preserved and is now celebrated as a focal point for the

new Upper School building and surrounding outdoor gathering space. Also, an overgrown stream corridor and former adjacent faculty housing and maintenance facilities were cleared and restored as a natural area with walking paths and a meadow.

Site renovations have improved stormwater management and preserved and expanded campus open space, contributing to the enhancement plan’s LEED Gold certification.

Design Annual | 83

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Architect: ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Photo by: Robert Benson Photography

Architect: ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Photo by: Robert Benson Photography

Architect: ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Photo by: Robert Benson Photography

Shaun Drinkard

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Washington Street Park Tampa, Florida In recent years, the former industrial waterfront Channel District has undergone tremendous redevelopment by adding thousands of residential units, entertainment attractions, and retail space. With this development came the need for increased public open space.

Washington Street Park, located on a half acre parcel, was the city’s answer to this need and provides a compact, environmentally-friendly, and engaging public space.

The park is the first public green space within the 200 acre Channel District Master Plan to be completed and provides recreation opportunities for more than 2,000 residents living in the district.

Once a greyfield site, this new urban park built upon public input to create a much-needed place where residents can socialize. The design is based on a nautical theme, commemorating the neighborhood’s origins as a port warehouse district in close proximity to Tampa Bay. The design provides flexible space for multiple uses, shade elements, public art, and a dog run within the limited acreage. The park also incorporates spiral entry columns, a sinuous circulation path, alternative play features, a sail pavilion, distinctive light features, specialty paving, and lawn areas to create a variety of outdoor spaces.

Design Annual | 87

David Quinones

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Walter Dufresne

Reconstruction of the Great Lawn and Surrounding Landscapes in Central Park New York, New York One of the most prominent outdoor public spaces in our nation, the Great Lawn in Central Park was in need of renovation. Stantec was the lead consultant, responsible for the reconstruction of the 55 acre area encompassing new path configurations, athletic fields, courts, new infrastructure, site grading, an expanded and restored Turtle Pond, a wildlife viewing platform, decorative pavements, site amenities, and extensive plantings.

Vitally important was the protection of existing flowering, coniferous, and shade trees throughout the landscape. These preservation efforts resonate today as the restoration of the Great Lawn nears its 20th anniversary. The beauty and performance of the landscape and its supporting infrastructure demonstrate our commitment to sustainable site design in the public realm.

Design Annual | 89

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Brent Gollnick

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