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2016 Firms of the South: kimley horn10-04-16 | Feature
Kimley-Horn
Raleigh, North Carolina



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CITRIX Office Complex Raleigh, North Carolina

CITRIX, an international software company, selected downtown Raleigh's emerging warehouse district to construct its local office for up to 800 employees. The creative office design will use the shell of the existing warehouse structure and add internal floors. An employee courtyard separates the office building from a new parking deck with ground-floor retail. Kimley-Horn provided all civil engineering, landscape architecture, and traffic services as well as entitlement support. The courtyard design includes decorative hardscape, artistic seat walls, a custom screen made of reclaimed steel, and water efficient landscape design. Kimley-Horn's services also include green roof design, construction administration, and LEED coordination.


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BB&T Ballpark, Home of the Charlotte Knights Charlotte, North Carolina

For this AAA baseball stadium that is home to the Charlotte Knights, Kimley-Horn performed all urban hardscape design, entrance and plaza design, and streetscape and urban corridor design as a subconsultant to the project architect. The public space is activated on all four sides of the stadium as well as the corner entrances to connect the stadium to the surrounding context of the revitalized Third Ward neighborhood. In addition to the landscape architecture, Kimley-Horn performed all site civil engineering and off-site roadway design to meet the project's aggressive schedule.


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Murphy Road Streetscape, Nashville, Tennessee

Kimley-Horn provided landscape architecture and engineering services to Metro Nashville for streetscape improvements on a four-block corridor of the West End neighborhood. Kimley-Horn's services included transforming a major intersection into a roundabout and creating a kit-of-parts that will identify the streetscape design elements to be implemented, such as site furniture and landscape material. Kimley-Horn also designed vehicular access into commercial sites, sidewalks, and other pedestrian thoroughfares and facilitated all of the public meetings, staff reviews, and stakeholder interviews.


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Regatta Park, Miami, Florida

The Kimley-Horn team provided landscape architecture services for Regatta Park in Miami, a new 15-acre waterfront passive park that will transform the underutilized waterfront into a more cohesive and vibrant public space that will help connect the general public to the waterfront. The main features of the park include the Expo Lawn, Regatta Lawn, tropical gardens, promenade, multiuse path connector, tree alee, and children's play area. Kimley-Horn was tasked with the landscape architectural and civil engineering design of the park from concept through construction administration.


Kimley-Horn is one of the nation's premier planning and design consulting firms. Since 1967, Kimley-Horn has delivered projects that can be successfully developed, permitted, and built on time and within budget. With more than 80 offices from coast to coast, they are a one-stop consultant for asset management, environmental, integrated water, land planning and landscape architecture, site development, survey, transit, and transportation. Kimley-Horn has 63 principals, 767 associates, and 2,861 total staff members.


As seen in LASN magazine, October 2016.








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