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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park featured in the Design With Nature Now Book and Exhibit at The McHarg Center
As 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s seminal book, Design With Nature, the University of Pennsylvania Stuarts Weitzman School of Design celebrates a continuance of McHarg’s vision for regional planning using natural systems by showcasing some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the world today. Hargreaves’ Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has been selected as part of the Design With Nature Now: Five Themes, 25 Projects. These projects are featured in the Design With Nature Now book (now available for pre-order) and exhibit at The McHarg Center (June 21st – September 15th in the Meyerson Hall Lower Gallery). Read more about how Hargreaves turned this heavily polluted site into a high-performance ecological and recreational space.
Competition Entry for Baltimore Middle Branch Master Plan posted for Public Review
The competition entry—The Patapsco Strand—reimagines 11 miles of Baltimore’s Middle Branch shoreline as a shallower, bountiful edge, returned to the people—as a place of connection, an economic driver, a green edge to fish and recreate. Amplifying the shared cultural heritage as watermen (and women and children)—the Strand delivers the bountiful, biodiverse, beautiful waterfront that Baltimoreans deserve. The phrase “Land of Pleasant Living” finds its richest urban expression here on Baltimore’s Middle Branch, as a daily destination for the neighborhood families of all ages to socialize and strengthen their communities at a shared resource.
MIPIM Awards Special Jury Prize for Moscow’s Zaryadye Park
The winners of the MIPIM Awards, presented on March 14, include two Italian projects. The special jury prize went to Zaryadye Park, with its multipurpose concert complex, a project that opened in 2018 and could easily become the new symbol of the city of Moscow.
IOC Director General Hails Release of Guide to Help New Sports Venues Minimize Impact on Nature
International Olympic Committee (IOC) director general Christophe De Kepper has hailed the significance of a newly-released guide by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which is designed to minimize the impact of new sports venues on nature and deliver conservation benefits.
2019 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards: The Finalists
Hargreaves Associates’ Crescent Park, with Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, Adjaye Associates and Michael Maltzan Architecture, is one of 5 finalists in Public Architecture for ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Award 2019
Team Chosen to Lead Silver Lake Reservoir Master Plan Update
Senior Principal Gavin McMillan at the International Cultural Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia
Hargreaves Associates’ Senior Principal Gavin McMillan took part in a panel at the International Cultural Forum St. Petersburg along with architects Pierre De Meuron, Asif Khan, Vladimir Plotkin, and Nikita Yaveyn.
Gavin spoke about how the staging of major sporting and cultural events with their regional planning focus, concentration of resources, and unmovable deadlines can also be leveraged to repair lost ecologies and to make new ecologies to bring Nature back into our cities and our lives. Both the Sydney Olympic Park and the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park convey the capacity for landscape architecture to bring new life, energy and vitality into neglected regions and to orchestrate powerful urban landscapes.
Zaryadye Park featured in ELLE Decor Italia
Article written by Giovanni Carli, published on July 19, 2018
ELLE Decor Italia, a magazine that focuses on home decor, published an article on Zaryadye Park, identifying it as the cultural hub of the city of Moscow. The article digs into the culture of Russia and how the nation’s fascination in “doing things big” harmonizes with the size of Zaryadye, as well as the multiple levels of identity that the park provides. Charles Renfro, one of its designers, remarked, “Zaryadye is a public space that resists any type of categorization; it is at the same time a park, an urban suare, a public space, a cultural space and a recreational space.”