Great Park featured designers include:
Ábalos & HerrerosIñaki
Abalos Juan Herreros
C/ Gran Vía, 16
3ºC Madrid, Spain (28013) |
0034-91 5234404 |
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Iñaki
Abalos and Juan Herreros are working together since 1984; they are Head
and Tenior Teachers at the Architecture School of Madrid where they
were also tutors in “Construction” during the period 1984-1988. They
are the authors of "Le Corbusier. Skyscrapers", "Tower and Office", and
"Natural - Artificial". Their work, which has been awarded in several
occasions, is compilated in a monography published by Gustavo Gili, has
been reviewed by specialized magazines and has taken part in individual
and collective exhibitions such as the one promoted by the MOMA with
the motto "Light Construction" (New York, 1995), or “New Trends of
Architecture 2002 " (Tokyo 2002). “Visiting Professors” at the School
of Architecture, Princeton University. |
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Balmori Associates, Inc. Martha Desbiens, Principal |
(212) 431-9191 |
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Balmori Associates is a New York landscape and urban
design firm that works internationally. The firm specializes in
collaborating with architects and engineers to create innovative
solutions for public spaces that combine a high level of artistic
design with a deep respect for environmental principles.
Balmori Associates completed the Master
Plan for the Farmington Canal, creating a public linear park that winds
through New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the Master Plan for urban
open space for the Gwynns Fall Trail in Baltimore MD. |
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Civitas, Inc. Frank Cannon AICP,
Principal Richard Farley FAIA, Principal Mark Johnson FASLA, Principal Todd Mead ASLA, Principal |
(303) 571-0053 |
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Civitas, inc. is recognized nationally as a group of professionals who uniquely combine exceptional design talent with creative problem solving skills. The overall vision for the firm involves the deeply felt conviction that the firm’s role within the global community centers on improving the urban environment. While pursuing interesting work within the areas of urban design planning and landscape architecture, the firm focuses primarily on infill, redevelopment, brownfield sites, transit oriented design and infrastructure projects. Urban designers, landscape architects and planners within the firm look to create public spaces of varying size and type. The measure of success is the communities’ use, care and veneration of the environment that we have designed and nurtured into reality. Civitas and a multi-disciplinary team
prepared a land-use and transportation plan for Balboa Park in San
Diego. Land use and transportation pressures challenge the park. Growth
due to the many uses, and volume of users, as well as demands from the
community for additional services has resulted in pressure to plan for
the park’s future. What has been a predominantly pedestrian oriented
environment has grown increasingly hazardous and congested. The
location of available parking for the various cultural facilities is
problematic, and automobile circulation has monopolized the public
spaces of the park. The team gathered issues from all major users of
the park, and uses surrounding the park, to prepare a land use and
transportation plan that capitalizes on the strengths of the history of
the park, provide meaningful public places, and organize the growth of
institutions within Balboa Park. |
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Colvin & Moggridge
Mark Darwent,
Director Mike Ibbotson,
Director Martin Bhatia,
Director Filkins Lechlade GL73JQ UK |
020 7323 9752 |
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Colvin
& Moggridge provides clients with the highest standards of design
and management. The expertise, resources and flexibility of the
practice enable the firm to undertake a wide range of works, including
commissions from national companies, government agencies and local
authorities. The variety in the size and nature of these projects has
encouraged a sensitivity and breadth of knowledge that benefits all
projects. C&M has offices in Gloucestershire and London and
undertake commissions throughout the United Kingdom and overseas,
ranging in scale and complexity from domestic to the very largest of
landscapes. C&M is known for its imaginative proposals rooted in a
comprehensive understanding of the nature, present character and
history of a site. Brenda Colvin founded the firm in 1922. |
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Danadjieva & Koenig Associates
Angela Danadjieva, Principal 1100 Mar West St Ste A, Belvedere/Tiburon, CA 94920 |
(415) 435-2000 |
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Danadjieva & Koenig Associates’
multi-disciplinary professional experience bridges boundaries of cities
and states. From 1976 to the present time,
the firm has performed national/international work and studies within
different work conditions and financial realties. Project
scopes have varied from small-scale conditions and financial realties. Project scopes have varied from small-scale
custom designed projects to multi-million dollar developments. Developments include the Thomas Polk Park,
Charlotte, NC, White River State Park Promenade, IN, Indiana and
Mission Bay Development, San Francisco, CA. |
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EDAW
Joe Brown, President/CEO Don Smith, Southwestern Regional Director 2737 Campus Drive Irvine, CA 94111 |
(415) 433-1484 |
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Over the course of EDAW’s 65-year history, principals embraced an action-oriented philosophy that values the relationship between people and their environment, and takes into account a project’s impact on its investors and community setting. Notable projects include the Ehime Maru Recovery Assessment and Mitigation Plan, Arroyo Seco Path Historical Evaluation, Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia. EDAW has made a
name for itself in recreation planning, with the US Forest Service, US
Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land
Management as the principal clients. EDAW garnered several multi-state,
open-ended commissions for these agencies to study how their land
holdings could best accommodate recreational opportunities without
adversely affecting wildlife and natural resources. Projects in the
Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, and Yosemite National Park
created new camping and hiking options; similarly, work on
hydroelectric projects for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) and local water districts studied how boating and related
activities could be most responsibly supported. |
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Enrie Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT Architects Enrie Tagiabue Passatge de la Pau 10 bis pral Barcelona, Spain |
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EMBT’s mature approach to architecture, interior design, facility planning, includes project experience in educational, residential and restoration buildings and special purpose landscape architecture has developed over his life. Enrie Miralles (1995-2000) formed his firm with Bernadette Tagilabue (1963) in the 1990’s, after the long collaboration with Viaplana & pinon between 1973/83 Barcelona, and Carme Pinos, Barcelona between 1984/89. The office maintains a highly personal level of service from design concepts to the development of projects, and their technical and structural resolutions, followed by the Engineering Office Ove Arup and Parners SA of London and Madrid, Cecil Balmond and Steve Fischer, Bollinger & Grobmann, Frankfurt. EMBT works in design and restoration of many project types, including Houses, University buildings, industrial facilities, civic centers, governments and private clients. Most work is for public clients with special emphasis on public space and coherence between building construction and public space. EMBT has received numerous awards including the National Prize of Spanish Architecture 1995 and the Fold Lion at the last edition of Biennal of Venice 96. |
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Field Operations
Landscape Architecture Urban Design Ecology James Corner, Principal 575 Eighth Avenue New York, NY |
212-433-1450 |
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Field Operations is an innovative, award-winning landscape architecture, urban design, planning, and ecology practice. Founded in 1998 by James Corner, the mandate of the practice is to create intelligent, high-quality design solutions for cities, landscapes and buildings. At all scales of the design environment, Field Operations seeks an integrated synthesis of landscape, infrastructure, ecology, architecture, transportation, economic development and city life. Synthesis is achieved through a creative, collaborative approach, working closely with architects, planers, engineers, ecologists and artists, as well as public agencies, project stakeholders and committees. Field Operation’s creative expertise is reflected in
diverse range of high-profile, complex project types, from the design
of entire sectors of cities to intimate garden spaces; the design of
large, new public parks to housing and mixed-use private developments;
the reclamation of landfills, derelict brownfield sites and other
post-industrial landscapes for new public uses and private development
to the preservation of natural resources. In each case, the practice
seeks to respond to the unique circumstances of each project and craft
built works of lasting distinction, striving to produce designs that
exceed the goals, aspirations and needs of the client. Field Operations
is committed to designs that are specific and unique, to contemporary
solutions that work, and to the production of maximum effects with
minimal means. |
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Gurtafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd
Pier 55 1101 Alaskan Way Seattle, WA |
206-903-6802 |
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Gustafson Guthrie Nichol offers extensive experience
and enthusiasm in designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban
contexts. GGN’s work involves substantial
collaboration with other disciplines to produce strong, buildable site
concepts. The results are comprehensive
site designs that truly unify landscapes, infrastructure, and buildings
into distinctive landmarks. |
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Richard Haag Associates
Landscape Architects 2419 Everett Avenue East Seattle, WA |
206-325-8119 |
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Richard Haag Associates is a Landscape Architectural
Planning and Design firm with a portfolio of over 500 built projects. RHA has 40 plus years of experience in the
master planning and development of parks trails, recreational and
wilderness education facilities, interpretive centers, international
events, resorts, planned communities and institutions including
museums, universities and the U.S. Consulate and Embassy in Lisbon.
Their strength and the basis of the firm’s reputation for innovative
and high-quality design is Haag’s ability to look at each project with
fresh insight. Every RHA project is unique, matching the client’s need
by balancing the program with the site. Notable projected include U.S.
Federal Courthouse, Eugene, OR and Cedar Lake Park and Trail,
Minneapolis, MN. |
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Hargreaves Associates
398 Kansas Street
(corporate office) |
(415) 865-1811 |
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At the forefront of landscape
architecture for over 20 years, Hargreaves Associates continues to
offer full services in landscape architecture, planning and urban
design. With offices in San Francisco,
California, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York, New York, the firm
serves an international clientele, and its projects address a broad
range of scales and types. By focusing on
strong design, Hargreaves Associates creates memorable environments
that meet clients’ goals. Projects
include: Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, San Francisco,
California, New York City World Trade Center Site Competition, New
York, New York and
American University, Beirut, Lebanon. |
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Iterae Architecture and Office of Landscape Morphology Phillippe Coignet David Serero 228 Rue de Tolblac 75013 Paris, France |
33(0)145.278.601 philippe.coignet@o-l-m.net |
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Iterae Architecture and the Office of
Landscape Morphology have been excelling in building up highly flexible
teams of specific and adapted competencies to each of the sites and
projects that they are designing. Based on
this strategy, they have won high profile competitions and design
commission in landscape and urban planning over the last few years. In
2004, they won the prestigious competition of transforming the former
international airport into a 1400-acre Metropolitan Park in Athens,
Greece. |
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Land Studio
ARUP/Planners and Engineers Ron Wigginton, Principal 2702 Eighth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 |
(510) 548-4833 info@landstudio.ws |
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Recognized as “Site Architects” since
1981, Land Studio draws upon over twenty years of landscape architects
to utilize the imagery associated with the art, philosophy and the
aesthetics of the landscape. Founder and Principal Ron Wigginton and
his associates have completed hundreds of built projects throughout
California… As prominent members of a new “Third Wave” of American
landscape designers, Land Studio extends the earlier traditions of
Frederick Law Olmsted and Thomas Church to create the landscapes, urban
infrastructure and gardens for the 21st century. |
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Landscape Architecture Planning
James Burnett 415 South Cedros Avenue, Suite 260 Solano Beach, CA |
858-793-6970 |
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The Office of James Burnett is a landscape architecture
and planning firm founded in 1989. the
firm offers full landscape design services with an emphasis on planning
and design of public parks, commercial, corporate and institutional
facilities. The Office has received over
40 state and national design awards, 20 of which were for constructed
projects. The firm was recently featured
in Continental Airlines Magazine in April 2005 and Brilliant Magazine
in August 2004. These articles focused on
the firm’s commitment to designing memorable landscapes and large park
environments. The firm is currently
working on large public parks in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas,
Beijing and Virginia Beach. |
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Ohtari Consultants
Yoji Sasaki Environmental Design Institute 3-10-10 Minamisemba Chuo-ku Osaka, Japan |
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Ohtori Consultants Environmental Design Institute
(OCEDI) is one of the leading design firms in Japan specializing in
landscape architecture, planning, and architecture. It has produced
remarkable results in major projects ranging from urban designs and
parks, to community neighborhood designs and has received many awards
and won important competitions worldwide. OCEDI has joined a variety of
international projects including ones in Beijing, Singapore and the
Tokyo metropolitan area. The firm’s international projects have
required high levels of collaboration and coordination with many
different professionals from abroad with a variety of interests. |
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Olin Partnership LTD
Public Ledger Building, Suite 1123 150 South Independence Mall West Philadelphia, PA |
215-440-0030 |
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OLIN Partnership has established an
international reputation for excellence in landscape architecture and
urban design, with award winning projects that celebrate the spirit of
place and create beautiful, useful and meaningful places for people. Olin Partnership has created, in a broad range
of contexts, landscapes that succeed as social spaces and environmental
systems. By synthesizing art and science,
Olin Partnership creates fresh innovative solutions solidly grounded in
the ecological sciences and advanced construction technologies Olin
Partnership clients have come to expect strong clear schemes supported
by innovative detailing and lasting materials that match social purpose
with available resources. |
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Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abbey
225 Miller Avenue Mill Valley, CA |
415-383-7900 |
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Royston, Hanamoto, Alley & Abbey has a 45-year
history as a leader in park and recreational planning.
Established in 1958, the firm has been an internationally
recognized leader in park and recreation planning.
Our projects encompass the rage of park design from
waterfronts to active sports parks. Our
philosophy is to take park planning to a higher level by incorporation
elements that engage the mind as well as body. It
is this holistic view of design that makes our parks and recreational
areas known throughout the United Sates.
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Sasaki Associates, Inc. Robert Sabbatini 900 North Point Street, B300 San Francisco, CA |
415-776-7272 |
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Founded in 1953 by Hideo Sasaki, Sasaki
Associates is an interdisciplinary firm of more than 270 professionals. He pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary
planning and disciplines that are represented in the ownership and
management of this firm, giving our work a practical dimension that
focuses on designing projects that are build able.
Hideo insisted that every project be put in its cultural
historical, geographical, environmental, social and economic context –
an approach that is even more important today than it was when he
developed it. Sasaki Associates was
awarded first prize in the design competition for the Olympic Greens,
the primary site of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Sasaki also designed University of California, Berkeley
Design Framework Plan, New Century Plan and Addison Circle Park in
Addison, Texas. |
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Martha Schwartz Partners
147 Sherman Street, Suite 200 Cambridge, MA |
617-661-8141 |
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Martha Schwartz Partners has extensive experience with
landscape and planning projects in the public realm.
The majority of the firm’s projects completed within the
last ten years have been public master planning, urban recreation, and
civic landscape projects. Notable projects
include the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, Exchange Square, Manchester, UK
and Cumberland Park in Toronto, Canada. |
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Ken Smith Landscape Architect
and Mary Miss 79 Chambers Street New York, NY |
212-791-3595 |
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Ken Smith Landscape Architect, Mary
Miss, Ten-Arquitecos, Mia Lehrer Associates, Buro Happold, Steven
Handel, Ecologist, are accomplished at working in collaborative
situations and with public constituencies and agencies. They have
substantial experience with public work and public construction working
with municipalities and governmental entities, civic organizations and
non-profits and economic development organizations and private
developers. |
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Thomas Gordon Smith, Architects
2025 Edison Road South Bend, IN |
574-287-1498 |
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Thomas Gordon Smith studied architecture at the
University of California at Berkeley. While
a student, he measured the Cooper-Molera Adobe in Monterey, and other
buildings, for the Historic American Building Survey.
After receiving a license in California, he established
his architectural practice in San Francisco. He
held the Rose Prize in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome in
1979-1980. The year culminated in the
construction of his façade and exhibition of his work on the Strada
Novissima in The Presence of the Past International
Architectural Exhibition at the 1980 Venice Biennale.
Thomas Gordon Smith’s active engagement in architectural
issues is reflected in thirty museum exhibitions, in extensive
publications of his buildings, and in scholarly publications of his
research, Richard John’s monograph on his architectural work, Thomas
Gordon Smith and the Revival of Classical Architecture, was
published in the Papadakis New Architecture Series in 2001. Thomas Gordon Smith’s major projects all began
with master planning for challenging sites. Public
projects, such as Cathedral City Civic Center in California required
envisioning a potential urbanism. Ecclesiastical
projects, such as a new Benedictine monastery under construction on a
two-square mile site in Oklahoma and a new seminary near Lincoln, NE,
began with site selection and master plan development. |
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SWA
580 Broadway, Suite 200 Laguna Beach, CA |
949-497-5471 |
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For over 40 years, SWA Group has been recognized as one
of the world’s design leaders in the fields of landscape architecture,
planning and urban design. They received
over 400 awards in 47 states and more than 40 countries.
Their principals are among the industry’s most talented
and experienced designers and planners. Emergency
in 1959 as the West Coast office of Sasaki, Walter and Associates, the
firm first assumed the SWA Group name in 1975. Founders
Hideo Sasaki and Peter Walker were graduates of the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design, became highly regarded for their own
professional work, and would eventually chair departments at Harvard. Details being one of the largest firms of its
type in the world, SWA is organized into small studio based offices
that enhance creativity and client responsiveness.
In addition to brining strong aesthetic, functional, and
social design ideas to our projects, they are committed to integrating
principles of environmental sustainability. The
core of their work is a passion for imaginative, solution-oriented
design that adds value to land, building, cities, regions, and to
people’s live. |
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Wallace, Roberts & Todd, Inc. 1133 Columbia Street, Suite 205 San Diego, CA |
619-696-9303 |
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For over 40 years, Wallis, Roberts & Todd has
worked to afford the new American wilderness – cities – the kind of
environmental quality, vitality and integrity that can assert itself
within the national consciousness. For
WRT, planning and design is a matter of legacy, of sustaining for
future generations the urban domain as the true and best expression of
the age we live in. To this effort, we
view the landscape as “ground” – the common element that allows land,
environment, development and open space to cohere into healthy and
distinctive urban place. Few professional
organizations practice under an overarching “urban” ethos.
Fewer still do so while applying rigorous sustainable
design principles across the disciplinary boundaries of planning, urban
design, architecture, landscape architecture and civil engineering. WRT does so with a single aim to create TOTAL
green environments where every element and system in them, regardless
of scale, is leveraged in support of an efficient, low impact yet
uniquely appropriate whole. |
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West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Wilhelminakade 68 P.O. Box 24326, 3007 DH Rotterdam The Netherlands |
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West 8 Urban Design and Landscape
Architects take a hybrid multi-disciplinary approach as a method of
confronting complex design issues. The
office consists of a diverse design team, urban planners, architects,
designers and landscape architects, totaling 45 members.
Under the direction of Prof. Adriaan Geuze, West 8 has
developed an interest in relating to contemporary culture, urban
identify, architecture and the public space within one design. This design approach is always related to the
contest. As a leading urban design
practice in Europe, West 8 has extensive experience in both large scale
urban planning, urban design and landscaping. Since
1985, West 8 has worked on an international level and has developed
projects in Copenhagen, Paris, London, Zurich, Vienna, New York, and
Charleston as well as other cities. |
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