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2016 Firms of the South: BWSC10-04-16 | Feature
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc.
Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia Offices



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Summit of Softball Complex, Chattanooga, Tennessee


The softball complex has eight laser-graded adult softball fields with extensive landscaping, including planters, shade trees and custom site furnishings: entry signage, entry arches, railings, seat walls, shade structures, trash receptacles, and specialty paving in pedestrian areas. Elements are color-coded to help visitors navigate. The landscape architects prepared the master plan, led the multidisciplinary design team, were the primary client contact, prepared the preliminary grading plan for the site, prepared plans for all sports fields, landscape, and hardscape and had the lead role in providing construction phase services.


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Caswell Park, Knoxville, Tennessee


Exposed aggregate paving with concrete bands define the pedestrian promenade. Twelve large pin oaks were saved and transplanted on site. The landscape architects prepared the master plan; led the multidisciplinary design team; were the primary client contact; prepared the preliminary grading plan and plans for the sports fields, landscape, hardscape, and had the lead role in construction phase services.


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Cherokee Removal Memorial Park, Meigs County, Tennessee


Through interpretive exhibits and the historic significance of the memorial, BWSC's design goal was to evoke an emotional response. Landscape architectural design and hardscape design involved native plantings, wayfinding signage, memorial panels with Cherokee cultural elements; all meant to honor the Cherokees who were removed from the region in what is known as the Trail of Tears. The central feature is seven vertical granite panels arranged in a radial pattern and placed at the apex of a seven pointed star, leaving an open space at the center to symbolize a nation pulled apart from their homeland. The landscape architects prepared the master plan, led the multidisciplinary design team, were the primary client contact, prepared the preliminary site grading plan, prepared plans for landscapes and hardscapes, and had the lead role in providing construction phase services.


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Torchbearer Plaza, Knoxville, Tennessee


As part of a beautification effort for the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus, BWSC transformed Torchbearer Plaza and Circle Park with new benches, trees lining the street, new trash receptacles, new retaining walls and pavers and new turf and irrigation
for the park. Wider, safer and ADA accessible sidewalks better accommodate pedestrian traffic to Neyland Stadium. The landscape architects prepared the master plan, led the multidisciplinary design team, were the primary client contact, prepared the preliminary grading site plan, the landscapes and hardscapes and had the lead role in providing construction phase services.


Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc. (BWSC) is an employee owned multidisciplinary firm founded in 1955. The firm has 300 employees in 12 office locations: three offices in Alabama (Birmingham, Dothan, Huntsville); four offices in Tennessee (Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Tri-Cities); three offices in Alabama (Birmingham, Dothan, Huntsville); and one office in Dayton, Ohio. BWSC is consistently ranked in the top 200 multidisciplinary A/E firms.


As seen in LASN magazine, October 2016.








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