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Designing Water: The Relationship of Design and Water featuring Mary Margaret Jones
“Water is the most compelling and consequential design matter of the 21st Century. Not just a life source or a source of beauty, water has crucial social, cultural, and symbolic functions and plays an essential role in all living systems” –designingwater.org
Join Mary Margaret Jones and other influential design practitioners from all over the globe at Longwood Gardens to learn about the relationship of water and design across time, space, and scale. This event will be held on October 17-18, so register ahead before tickets run out!
Gardner Museum – Landscape Lectures featuring Mary Margaret JonesHargreaves Associatesonlinemembers
Mary Margaret Jones is president of Hargreaves Associates and Hargreaves Jones, overseeing offices in San Francisco, Cambridge, and New York. Jones is known for her leadership of many of the firm’s award-winning projects around the globe. She also serves on numerous juries, lectures widely, and is active in the public forum of design and development issues. Jones is the Prince Charitable Trust Fellow in Landscape Architecture of the American Academy in Rome and current Chairman of the Board of Trustees. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Sr. Fellow of the Design Futures Council.
Join us at Landscape Lectures on Thursday, May 10 at 7:00pm in Calderwood Hall. Lectures include Museum admission and require a ticket; tickets can be reserved online, in person at the door, or by phone: (617) 278-5156. Museum admission: adults $15, seniors $12, students $5, free for members.
Balancing Everyday Use and Regional Attraction in Wilmington, NC
The schematic design for the North Waterfront Park in Wilmington, NC, were submitted to the city and revealed at a public meeting held April 16th, 2018. The park will be a key driver in an ambitious expansion of the central business district of downtown Wilmington. The six-acre park will not only serve as a vibrant day-to-day amenity for downtown residents, but its capacity as a 7500-seat outdoor performance venue (to be managed by LiveNation) will make it a premier regional concert destination.
Read more at the Wilmington Port City Daily
More recent press about North Waterfront Park: WWAY TV3 WilmingtonBiz
Soft Power in Moscow
The Landscape Architecture Magazine calls Zaryadye Park an entertaining landscape intended as a spectacular place, a special attraction, and a free public space—a term that Russian architects agree had almost no precedent in the language before a series of convergences brought the park into being. Anna Kamyshan, a Ukrainian architect at the office of Project Meganom, told LAM: “It’s not really a simple thing to do in post-Soviet country because before this park, public space was not even a word.” Read More at Landscape Architecture Magazine
The Commons in Minneapolis Spurs Downtown Development
The New York Times reports on the transformation of downtown Minneapolis over the past few years, centered on the city’s new stadium, which will soon host Super Bowl LII. Adjacent to the US Bank Stadium, the 4.2 acre Commons park designed by Hargreaves Associates is identified as a critical element driving the development in this formerly underused portion of downtown. Mike Ryan, of Ryan Companies, the developer of the 5-block campus, said “When we first looked at the opportunity, we thought there was too much land — there was going to be a great new stadium, but there was nothing to prevent the area from being another sea of surface parking … But having a major public green space at its core is the reason developers want to be there.” Read More at the New York Times
Crescent Park Contributes to Surging Development
A recent article in the New Orleans Advocate highlights economic development in the Bywater neighborhood, noting that “appreciation in property that lies close to the Mississippi River is driven in part by Crescent Park, the new linear riverfront park.” Real Estate analysts highlight the impact of the stimulating and inviting nature of Crescent Park, designed by Hargreaves Associates and opened in 2014: “having a place to go out and see the river and have a park-like experience is pretty unique in New Orleans. ” Read More
Zaryadye Park Opens in Moscow
After winning the international design competition in 2013, Hargreaves Associates in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Citymakers celebrated the opening of Zaryadye park on September 9th 2017. This park is the first large scale public park to open in Moscow in the last 50 years.
Zaryadye Park, a 13 hectares (32 acre) park in the heart of Moscow, represents a historic transformation of Russia’s capital that will demonstrate Moscow’s commitment to innovative design for 21st century civic spaces. 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. Located on a site that was occupied throughout Moscow’s history, and until the early 1990’s by the Rossiya Hotel, the rubble filled site had sat fallow until the park’s development. Zaryadye Park is the missing link that completes the collection of world-famous monuments and urban districts forming central Moscow.
Fred A. Bernstein from Architectural Record, one of the first on site, writes about the park here. Photo credits Philippe Ruault.
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Chattanooga Renaissance Park included in Bloomsbury Publishing’s latest book
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability Creating Positive Change through Design
Mary Margaret Jones to Speak at American Academy in Rome’s Conversations Lecture Series
CONVERSATIONS – NEW TERRAIN
JULIA CZERNIAK Professor and Associate Dean, Syracuse Architecture MARY MARGARET JONES President/Senior Principal, Hargreaves Associates (1998 Fellow) MICHAEL MANFREDI Co-Founder, Weiss/Manfredi GREGG PASQUARELLI Co-Founder, SHoP Architects
In collaboration with the Enel Foundation.
Thursday, March 2, 2017, 6:30pm Whitney Museum of American Art, Susan and John Hess Family Theater 99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
Please join us for a panel discussion featuring some of the world’s leading practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture and urban design sharing thoughts related to the complex weave of manmade and natural systems. The panel will review innovative design strategies for the reclamation of brownfields and other disturbed landscapes, and discuss a variety of approaches for their reuse. Speakers will also address the challenges of large-scale development projects that require cooperation between communities and public and private organizations. Examples range from the adaptive re-use project of Brooklyn Bridge Park to the grounds of the Sydney Olympics, among other projects.
Report: Mayor Kenney Plans Waterfront Park on Top of I-95
Mayor Kenney plans to announce $90 million in city funding for a planned waterfront park that will extend from the Delaware River on top of Interstate 95 and Columbus Boulevard in Center City, according to a report Monday by PlanPhilly.
The park, which is intended to create a friendly green space connecting the waterfront to the rest of Center City, would cost a total of $225 million with the additional funding coming from state and philanthropic sources, the website reported.
The project, which is still in the early design stage, would encompass 11 acres between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. An existing park, which includes the Irish Memorial, occupies part of the space over I-95, but stops before Columbus Boulevard and is 30 feet above the level of Penn’s Landing. Read more