Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, the 76,000-square-foot (7,061-m2) Chaparral Water Treatment Facility was built to meet the current and future water demand of this desert city and Phoenix suburb. Through the use of cutting-edge technology, the facility fulfills its public mandate on a minimal footprint and lessens its impact on the neighboring community with art and sculpture that pay homage to desert life. Completed in June 2006, the result transforms a necessary community resource—typically relegated to industrial areas—into a backdrop for the bustling Chaparral Park.
Located in the heart of Napa Valley’s Carneros wine-growing region and surrounded on three sides by active vineyards, Carneros Inn is a 27-acre (11-ha) resort featuring 85 individual guest cottages, 24 vacation homes, restaurants, and ample meeting and event space. The second phase includes Carneros Town Square, which will consist of a post office and a food and wine market that will open the inn to the surrounding area. The first resort constructed in Napa County in over 20 years, Carneros Inn is the product of a decade-long planning initiative with the local government and residents of the agricultural community.
Flanked by columns ten meters (33 ft.) tall on which hieroglyphic animals are carved, and set in lush landscaping with a menagerie of bronze animal sculptures, the gateway that welcomes residents and visitors to Savannah CondoPark dramatically sets the stage for this sustainable, safari adventure–themed community. Inside the gates, 18 ten-story condominium buildings, with footprints totaling 23 percent of the 5.5-hectare (13.6-acre) site, curve around a four-hectare (ten-acre) common open space featuring pools, gardens, and terraces.
Located in the rapidly growing southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong, the Fifth Garden represents a radical departure from the norm of recent urban residential development in China. Rather than fitting as many units as possible in a Western-style high-rise building or townhouse complex, Vanke Real Estate Company—mainland China’s largest real estate developer—opted to celebrate Chinese tradition and design in its Fifth Garden project, a 11.2-hectare (27.7-ac) planned community containing 1,000 high-end for-sale residential units, a small commercial core, generous amounts of public open space, and parking for 750 cars.
Located in Salford, an outer suburb of Manchester, Chimney Pot Park is a radical redevelopment of 349 residential units in a troubled terrace-house neighborhood. For years, the community suffered from low demand and declining value, and was plagued by crime and antisocial behavior, absentee landlords and irresponsible tenants, and open back alleys that encouraged neglect and vandalism. With the original housing stock slated for demolition, Urban Splash—a development company renowned for regenerating distressed or problematic sites—drastically reconfigured the internal design and layout of the homes while retaining the original façades and street pattern.
South Campus Gateway is a visionary collaboration between the Ohio State University, the city of Columbus, and neighborhood stakeholders in an effort to transform a 7.5-acre (3 ha) tract that straddles the university campus and a distressed, low-income neighborhood. Developed by the not-for-profit Campus Partners, the $150 million dynamic mixed-use development is the signature project in the organization’s decade-long planning effort to revitalize the University District area. Using a complex layering of financing, the project comprises 184 apartments, 98,000 square feet (9,105 m2) of office space, and 249,000 square feet (23,133 m2) of retail stores, including an eight-screen cinema, a dozen restaurants, a university bookstore, and an organic grocery.
In August 2003, Kemper Development Company (KDC), owner of the successful, adjacent Bellevue Square and Bellevue Center retail projects, took on the challenge of turning around the Lincoln Square project—a massive risk in the uncertain economic climate of the early 2000s. After four years of redesign and innovative construction, the 1.4 million-square-foot (130,064-m2) mixed-use project, replete with 300,000 square feet (2,787 m2) of retail; a 28-story, Class A office tower; 148 luxury condominiums; and a 19-story hotel, has resuscitated a moribund development and brought much-needed density to a suburban environment. The two towers rise from five stories of underground parking and a three-level retail podium, featuring a luxury cinema, restaurants, home-related stores, and upscale entertainment.
The Liberty Hotel/Yawkey Center project seamlessly blends two uses not commonly associated with each other—a hotel and hospital—on a three-acre (1.2-ha) shared site. In addition to the unconventional partnering, the development includes an adaptive use of the Charles Street Jail, a historic landmark at the northern base of Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. Ultimately, a common planning vision between the developer and the owner united the disparate functions, resulting in a $150 million, 300-room luxury hotel and 440,000-square-foot (40,877-m2) state-of-the-art medical outpatient facility.
A product of a public/private endeavor among Arthur Hill & Co., the city of Evanston, and Northwestern University, Church Street Plaza is a $181 million mixed-use development around transit with 174,000 gross leasable square feet (16,165 m2) of retail, restaurant, and entertainment space. Considered the catalyst for downtown Evanston’s decade-long resurgence, Church Street Plaza took advantage of a creative financing and partnership model to revitalize the urban core. The 7.2-acre (2.9-ha) project serves as a gateway between downtown Evanston and Northwestern University and also includes an 18-screen cinema, a 178-room hotel, a 204-unit condominium building, a 195,000-square-foot (59,436-m2) office building, and a 1,400-car parking garage.
The Pall Italia Building is located in an industrial area of Buccinasco, Italy, a municipality seven kilometers (4.3 mi.) southwest of Milan. The new Italian headquarters of the Pall Corporation—a U.S.-based global company specializing in the filtration, separation, and purification of fluids for the medical and industrial fields—consists of 3,463 square meters (37,275 sq. ft.) of office space and 3,513 square meters (37,814 sq. ft.) of research laboratories on an 8.8-hectare (21.8-acre) site. One of Italy’s first green buildings, the Pall Italia Building uses a range of sustainable technologies to achieve zero on-site carbon emissions, including thermal resistant façades, innovative daylighting techniques, and renewable energy.
