Rendering of renovations for Pease Park’s Kingsbury Commons. The power lines that crisscross the park’s formal entrance will be re-routed underground. Natural landscaping will include meadows, wildflowers, a woodland understory and a substantial native flowering tree grove along Lamar Boulevard. The much-used sand volleyball courts will be rebuilt and a new covered basketball court will be added as well areas for petanque and bocce ball. A new state-of-the-art waterplay feature and splash pad will incorporate natural limestone elements. The play areas will have a nature-based playscapes, like stumps and wooden beams for climbing and a treehouse-inspired play pod. (Rendering by Clayton & Little Architects) As seen in this rendering, the Kingsbury Commons plan will overhaul the southern end of Pease Park. “Pease is a park for all of Austin and we want to make it accessible to everyone.”Ī new pavilion will house modern restrooms and volunteer space and will be surrounded by additional picnicking area while the park’s historic 1920’s Tudor Cottage into a community gathering and event space. “Pease Park is rich with thousands of years of human history,” said Heath Riddles, CEO of Pease Park Conservancy. So will a new path with an interpretive stone ‘ribbon’ that will serve as place to highlight the ecology and the long history of Pease Park. The co-ed net size and height are the same. “Water will be a connecting element to the (features of Kingsbury Commons,” Ten Eyck said. Men’s indoor and beach volleyball net height is 7 feet, 11-5/8 inches (2.43 meters) tall. Ten Eyck said plans call for a natural spring that currently flows onto the adjacent road to be redirected through Kingsbury Commons. “It sits on ‘Swiss cheese’ limestone that’s full of hidden springs and we want to bring attention to feature, and revel how water flows through the site.” “This (area of the park) is a beautiful woodland and the idea is to enhance that natural landscape, not take away from it,” said Christine Ten Eyck, president of the project’s firm. Shoal Creek marks the edge of the Balcones Escarpment. Its trails, disc golf course and beach volleyball courts have long made it a popular recreational destination. Ten Eyck Landscape Architects is leading the project that will bring new features to 13-acres of the most-used area of Pease Park while preserving and restoring the natural landscape.Īn 84-acre greenbelt along Shoal Creek west of downtown Austin, Pease is one of Austin’s oldest parks. Key sustainable aspects of this LEED Gold building include demand-operated ventilation, high capacity air-side heat recovery, a high-performance thermal envelope, pool heat recovery, large-span wood glulam trusses, high-performance storm water management, and a triple-height central corridor that draws light deep into the interior through skylights and a clerestory.Just a year after receiving a transformational donation of $9.7 million from the Moody Foundation, the Pease Park Conservancy has released renderings for the radical upgrade planned for the park’s southern end, known as Kingsbury Commons. We designed a building that opens onto an expansive public plaza, engages with the street, and strengthens the cohesiveness and identity of Markham’s newly defined urban core. Features: Waterproof, UV Resistant, Fire Retardant (DIN4102 B1, M2) Components: Superior Enclosure with Hot Dip Galvanized Steel. The new City envisioned this state-of-the-art sports complex as a key component in its master plan for transforming a former suburb into a truly metropolitan environment. Infrastructure Ontario awarded our firm the Architect of Record role on this Build-Finance project at a time when the Town of Markham had recently become the City of Markham. Built for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, the Markham Pan Am Centre was emphatically an urban design project as well as an architectural one.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |