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Powers Design Architects, one of the region?EUR??,,????'???s leading architectural and planning firms, has begun creating the architectural plans for the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library Park. As a pro bono project, the firm is developing the concepts set forth in the original park layout and site plan developed by famed golf course architect Bobby Weed.
?EUR??,,????'??Our role is to design the conceptual site layout and theme and provide support to the county and the library board in implementing Bobby Weed?EUR??,,????'???s original wonderful master plan,?EUR??,,????'?? said Powers Design?EUR??,,????'???s Tom Reidenbach, who is spearheading the project. ?EUR??,,????'??We took his original notions and ideas and are moving them into reality. The results will be truly spectacular.?EUR??,,????'?? Reidenbach is Powers Design?EUR??,,????'???s senior vice president of themed architectural design.
The five-acre garden park was designed to represent Florida?EUR??,,????'???s major ecosystems including coastal dunes, upland hammocks, lakes and freshwater marshes. The architectural plans will utilize plants indigenous to the area along with vernacular architectural theming. A natural 2.4-acre lake will be the park?EUR??,,????'???s main feature, surrounded by a boardwalk that weaves throughout the park.
Shorty Robbins is heading up the volunteer group that has organized the entire project.
?EUR??,,????'??One of our volunteers, Virginia Simpson, asked John Powers, president of Powers Design, to get involved. She?EUR??,,????'???s a hard person to say no to,?EUR??,,????'?? said Robbins. ?EUR??,,????'??The group at Powers Design is so creative and it?EUR??,,????'???s really exciting to see the variety of looks they?EUR??,,????'???ve given us to choose from. They?EUR??,,????'???ve really come up with some great designs. It?EUR??,,????'???s going to be hard to select just one.?EUR??,,????'??
One exciting element is an interactive maze of shrubs at the park?EUR??,,????'???s entrance. The beautiful park will also encompass a storytelling tree area with a small amphitheatre for children, sculptures by local artists of animals native to Florida and areas along the boardwalk with freshwater habitats and Florida Dune habitats. The park?EUR??,,????'???s existing bird sanctuary has also been carefully developed into the plans. Construction on the park is tentatively set for 2005.
Founded in 1980, Powers Design?EUR??,,????'??+Powers, Mackey, Reidenbach & Lanehart, Inc.?EUR??,,????'??+provides theming, graphic high design services, planning, architecture and landscape architecture services for a variety of projects and clientele from their office in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Services extend to a diverse range of projects which include planned residential and destination resort communities, urban design, office and retail development.
For additional information on Powers Design, visit www.powersmerritt.com.
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