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LASN March 2014 Table of Contents03-31-14 | News

LASN March 2014 Table of Contents

On the cover:
Gardens by the Bay, Singapore: Landscape Architecture by Grant Associates, Bath, U.K., and Singapore Office
See p. 50

Features

Turtle Back Zoo's Prehistoric Park Playground
"?uLandscape Architecture and Engineering by Suburban Consulting Engineers
In 2013 Essex County contracted with a team of landscape architects to design a custom playground facility with a prehistoric theme to enhance Turtle Back Zoo's education and outreach programs.

Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
"?uLandscape Architecture by Grant Associates, Bath, U.K., and Singapore
Following an international design competition, a team led by the U.K. landscape architectural firm Grant Associates was appointed in 2006 by the National Parks Board of Singapore to master plan Bay South Garden, the first and largest of the three planned gardens at Gardens by the Bay.
North Carolina's Veterans' Park
"?uLandscape Architecture by Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
In 2008, the North Carolina Legislature approved funding for a veterans' park in Fayetteville (pop. 205,678). The city, situated on the Cape Fear River in the Sandhills of the western coastal plain, was deemed an appropriate site, as it's home to Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield. The legislation specified a "contemporary, unique, and bold" park, a "place for meaningful reflection and inspiration."

Chicago's Mary Bartelme Park
"?uLandscape Architecture by Site Design Group, Ltd.
Mary Bartelme Park is a 2.3-acre urban green space that replaced an old infirmary in Chicago's West Loop. Five skewed square stainless steel arches form a memorable gateway at the northwest corner of the former brownfield site. Two large lawn berms offer ample space for community activities.

Dust Devil Park, Phoenix "?u Engaging La Familia
"?uJ2 Engineering and Environmental Design, LLC
Constructed on a $4.6 million budget for Phoenix, this park was once a fenced-off dirt lot full of weeds, trash, and asphalt remnants, with an unsightly open-earth irrigation channel paralleling the western boundary. Sharing two of its edges with the Villa de Paz Elementary School to the east and the Villa de Paz neighborhood to the south, Dust Devil Park has been transformed into a point of pride for the community.

Elizabethtown Sports Park
"?uLandscape Architecture by Element Design
City planners in Elizabethtown, Ky., cultivated a vision for a regional sports facility that grew into a 158-acre complex with 12 baseball/softball fields, 12 soccer fields, extensive lighting and underground infrastructure, parking, pedestrian trails, and more than 20,000 square feet of bioswales that feed more than four acres of detention/filtration basins.

Deparments

Publisher's Commentary: Dad Gave Me the Passion for Landscape

Ordinances: Sidewalk Shading Ordinances, Buck Abbey, ASLA

Hardscapes: Permeable Pavers Long-Term Test, Will Chelak

Hardscape News

Playgrounds: : Playground Elements Showcase, No Fault Sport Group, LLC, and Vortex Aquatic Structures Int'l.

Product Focus: Park Site Amenities

Movers & Shakers

Stewardship: Laguna Lake Park Fitness Course, Ann Sever, Wallace Group

Editorial Contributors
AZEK Building Products
Will Chelak

elementdesign
Landscape Architecture + Engineering + Planning
Ramona Fry, PLA, ASLA, LEED BD+C, Partner

Stacey Herron, MFA, Marketing + Design

Grant Associates
Katherine Byles, Grant Associates Public Relations

J2 Engineering and Environmental Design, LLC, Phoenix
Aaron Allan, RLA, ASLA

Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
Sal Musarra, PLA, LEED AP, Vice President  

No Fault Sport Group, LLC

Reading Rock, Inc.
Shannon Tokarsky
AVP Specification & Marketing

Site Design Group, Ltd.
Jenna Jones, ASLA, LEED Green Associate

Suburban Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Joseph Perello, LLA, RLA, PP, Vice President 

The Green Laws Organization
Buck Abbey, ASLA

Vortex Aquatic Structures Int'l

Wallace Group
Ann Sever

Waterworks International