Hargreaves Associates’ Crescent Park in New Orleans is a recipient of a 2015 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum. Hargreaves Associates led the design effort, collaborating with prime Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, and architects Adjaye/Architects and Michael Maltzan Architecture on the 2015 completion of the 1.4-mile long riverfront at the namesake curve of the Mississippi River. The fundamental success of the park is the transformation of a long off-limits rail corridor and decaying wharf complex into a linear landscape affording stunning views of downtown, and long absent direct access to the river for the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods.
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, have organized The American Architecture Awards as a way in which to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important architects and planners practicing nationally and internationally. The program awards pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.