Installations
Case Study: Bryant Park
Bryant Park in busy midtown New York is one of the city’s best-loved public places. It is also one of the great comeback stories in urban lore. From dereliction and virtual abandonment in the late 1970’s, to restoration in the …
Case Study: Chelsea Improvement District
New York’s westside Chelsea neighborhood has been dramatically transformed. The streets beneath the High Line that once constituted the meatpacking district are now home to luxury lofts, high-fashion boutiques and restaurants in the vanguard of the city’s foodie frenzy. Industrial …
Case Study: Duke Energy Center
HGOR were planners and landscape architects for Charlotte’s new downtown cultural arts campus, which includes a major plaza with a Performing Arts Center, two museums and the Duke Energy Center, the corporate anchor of the development. One of the largest …
Case Study: Target Field Plaza
Today’s Studio 431 case study is Target Field Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Designed by oslund.and.assoc., in 2010, ESPN The Magazine ranked Target Field as the #1 stadium experience in North America. Target Field was awarded LEED Silver Certification by the …
Case Study: Southeast False Creek Olympic Village
To finish off the year, we will be posting case studies highlighting our Studio 431 projects. The first in the series is Southeast False Creek Olympic Village in Vancouver. The design firm is PWL Partnership, Landscape Architects Inc. We hope …
The Yards Park: 42 acres transformed
If you were standing along the Anacostia River between the US Naval Yard and the new Washington Nationals baseball stadium 10 years ago, odds are you were up to no good. It was a seedy and dangerous area that you …
Neyland Stadium: Designed by a great football coach and visionary
Since moving to Michigan last fall I’ve become a little more interested in college football. I mean who wouldn’t be with two of the best college football programs in the country…Michigan and Michigan State in our backyard? And with bowl …
New life to an old place
The Bethlehem Steel plant was a symbol of American industrial leadership from 1852 until 2003. It was once the 2nd largest steel mill in the United States and the largest ship building company in the world. Its demise came from …
All about placemaking
“Placemaking” is a term that landscape architects, architects and other design professionals have used since the 1970s to define a process of creating vibrant, active places whose primary purpose is to serve people. Place in the way landscape architects use …
