Garland Park Playground Denver

Denver Parks and Recreation sought to replace two outdated play areas with a single larger playground to complement the park's sports facilities and fields, and the adjacent Cherry Creek Trail corridor, a wonderful riparian area. Stream Design and frequent teaming partner Urban Play Studio, merged a "wonky" soccer field with incongruous landscape features such as mounds, trees, and a "river" walk. Customized play equipment reinforces the theme and creates distinct age separated play areas. Natural grass, undulating artificial turf, rubber play surface, sand, crusher fines and colored concrete create a rich spatial experience that blurs the edges between park and playground, creating a diverse and integrated play environment.

Washington Park Diagonal, Denver

Stream Design developed a detailed master plan and construction documents for the "diagonal" area of Washington Park, the heart of Denver's most used and notable park. The project includes multiple picnic areas, recreation fields, athletic courts, multimodal trails, a park road and parking to accommodate more than 70 cars. The landscape architects reimagined vehicular and nonmotorized circulation and recreational areas, preserved nearly all of the mature trees on site, created intimate gatherings areas and ones for 10,000 people or more, increased vehicular parking capacity, circulation efficiency and bicycle access, while reducing roadway paving in the area. Smaller-scaled trails connect each space. Sandstone seat-height walls help delineate spaces. The plan created a promenade out of park road, made better connections to historic Mt. Vernon gardens and renovated a fireplace built by the Campfire Girls in the 1930s.

Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds) Westwood Neighborhood Park, Denver

Stream Design transformed this four-acre mixed-use, dilapidated parcel into a new park for the under-served Westwood neighborhood. Stream collaborated with LiveWell Westwood. The APA chapter recognized the team with the 2012 Outstanding Planning Project Award in Community Engagement. The new park includes more than 50 new trees; a loop walking path; a multiuse turf field; grassy hills; a "four winds" themed interactive water feature; a ball court game area and skate area; a sheltered picnic area; a custom chrome eagle sculpture by a local artist; and a fabulous new playground with customized equipment and surfaces that reflect the park's design inspiration. Children can follow a pattern of "wind swirls" in the concrete paving from the playground to a low-water interactive water feature that integrates Native American inspired mythological symbols with a custom sculpted concrete turtle with the globe embedded in its shell. Two overlooks flank the playground.