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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) selected the Denver Union Station Neighborhood Transformation to receive a 2014 Institute Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design, recognizing excellence in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development. The redevelopment of the former rail yards at Denver Union Station transforms 14 blocks in downtown Denver into a showcase for the power of transit-oriented urban design. The 42-acre master plan knits together light rail, commuter rail, and buses into a unified and cohesive intermodal transportation hub. The public realm further facilitates connectivity, including promenades and streetscapes, plazas, urban gardens, and expanded bike facilities. Significant new public spaces include Wynkoop Plaza, the 17th Street Promenade and Gardens, and the Light Rail Plaza. Integrated land use and transportation infrastructure support more than 4 million square feet of mixed-use urban infill. 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.

Hargreaves Associates In The News: Red Square Rounded

Hargreaves Associates and Diller Scofidio + Renfro design a dramatic new park in Moscow. Read more

Hargreaves Associates in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Citymakers and an international team of experts is thrilled to have been selected to help realize Zaryadye Park. Zaryadye represents a historic transformation of Russia’s capital that will demonstrate Moscow’s commitment to innovative design for 21st century civic spaces. After being closed to the public for ten years, the very heart of the city will be given back to the people to become a park for Moscow, Russia and the World.

The design is based on the principle of Wild Urbanism, a hybrid landscape where the natural and the built cohabit to create a new type of public space. Characteristic elements of the historic district of Kitay-Gorod and the cobblestone paving of Red Square are combined with the lush gardens of the Kremlin to create a new park that is both urban and green. Zaryadye Park is the missing link that completes the collection of world-famous monuments and urban districts forming central Moscow.

Rebuild by Design: Innovating Together to Create a Resilient Region

Hargreaves Associates is part of the HR&A Advisors and Cooper, Robertson & Partners team – one of the ten teams selected to participate in the Rebuild by Design Competition. The competition is now in phase two of four phases and is an initiative of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force and HUD, aimed at addressing structural and environmental vulnerabilities that Hurricane Sandy exposed in communities throughout the region and developing fundable solutions to better protect residents from future climate events. The teams focus on the most-affected and most-vulnerable areas of the Sandy-affected region within Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.

The ULI Urban Open Space Award recognizes outstanding examples of transformative and vibrant public open space -large and small- that have spurred economic and social regeneration of their adjacent communities. Read more

Cumberland Park in Nashville, Tennessee, was selected as one of five finalists for the Urban Land Institute’s 2013 Open Space Award. Competing with four other waterfront redevelopment projects throughout North America, Cumberland Park represents the first phase in Nashville’s ongoing efforts to revitalize its riverfront and support healthy, active lifestyles by offering a family-oriented space for adventure play, ecological learning, and performances by local and international entertainers. The site, adjacent to downtown on the Cumberland River, has a complex industrial history including use as a wood mill, barge construction facility, and most recently a parking lot serving LP Field, home of the NFL Tennessee Titans. Hargreaves Associates led a team of local architects and engineers through an intensive design process to restore the former Brownfield to the public domain and create a cultural and economic catalyst for future development along the riverfront. Read more

Please visit this website to watch a video of the 5 finalists prepared by ULI.

The Denver Union Station Project Authority celebrated the opening of Light Rail Plaza at Denver Union Station on May 18, 2013. Light Rail Plaza will serve as the gateway to a new multi-modal transportation district and will facilitate the transfer of thousands of people each day from the light rail to the Downtown Mall Shuttle, new RTD bus facility, upgraded Amtrak Train Hall, historic Union Station, new offices, residences and a variety of public spaces within steps of the light rail plaza.

Future public realm components of the Denver Union Station project currently under construction include the 17th Street Gardens, Wewatta Plaza and Wynkoop Plaza, all scheduled to open within the next two years.

Hargreaves Associates is the lead public realm designer for the Denver Union Station. The 34 acre site is the last major undeveloped parcel in lower downtown and is slated to become a mixed use transit district with a renovated historic station, new multimodal transit center, office, hotel, residential and retail uses. The public realm will include plazas, promenades and streetscapes with a proposed budget of $28 million.

The Rudy Bruner awards recognize excellence in urban placemaking and celebrates “the interplay of process, place and values? The Waterfront Park was 20 years in the making and has transformed a formerly derelict area into a “bustling urban waterfront? Read more

The new 70-acre park planned for downtown Oklahoma City is a key component of the City’s Core to Shore plan, which will redevelop a large tract of underutilized land between downtown and the Oklahoma River. The draft master plan was developed after a series of public meetings in which citizens provided comments on design and program alternatives. Read more

The National AIA Awards office has selected the Reinventing the Crescent: Riverfront Development Plan to receive a 2012 Honor Award for Design in the Regional and Urban Design category.

The plan encompassed 6 linear miles of the Mississippi River East Bank riverfront at the core of the City of New Orleans, from Jackson Avenue to the Holy Cross neighborhood. The planning process was completed with significant public input and included the participation of many key stakeholder organizations in the community such as the Port of New Orleans, the French Quarter, Marigny, Bywater, and Garden District neighborhood Associations, and the Downtown Development District. The Jury noted: ‘This is an innovative and radical approach to readdressing the levee on the Mississippi and reconnecting the citizens of New Orleans back to their riverfront.’

The design and planning process was a collaboration amongst an international collection of design firms including Lead Designer and Landscape Architect Hargreaves Associates, Urban Design studio Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, local lead Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, and the Architectural studio TEN Architectos.

This project was previously awarded an ASLA 2008 Analysis and Planning Honor Award, and an AIA New Orleans 2008 Master Planning and Urban Design Honor Award.