Cramer Hill Waterfront Park Overcoming Camden’s history of economic and environmental justice challenges, Cramer Hill Waterfront Park has turned an 86-acre (35 ha) municipal landfill into an urban oasis containing abundant green space and direct access to two rivers. With the community’s vision, nonprofit organization support, and effective intergovernmental collaboration, Cramer Hill was able to […]
Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate, is currently developing RFI DIRFT, a 700-acre intermodal (rail/freight) logistics park. In partnership with the Wildlife Trust (a federation of regional wildlife conservation charities), 193 acres have been transformed into an ecological habitat named Lilbourne Meadows, a mixed habitat of wetland and grassland with extensive hedgerows. To […]
Wiley H. Bates High School in Annapolis, Maryland, a cultural landmark that sat vacant for more than 20 years, has been reinvented as Wiley H. Bates Heritage Park, a development incorporating housing for low-income seniors, community services for seniors and young people, and a museum of the school and its community. Bates School, which opened in 1933, was the city’s first freestanding secondary school for African Americans and was named after a local man who was born into slavery and later became one of Annapolis’s wealthiest citizens.
The Perspective Charter School’s new building, which was completed in August 2004, reflects its founders’ principles for an ideal school environment. Perspectives was one of the first public charter schools in Chicago; the success of its first campus, which is in South Chicago, spawned the formation of this campus in the South Loop, a neighborhood that is characterized by light-industrial shed buildings and renovated loft residences. The new school building occupies the acute end of a 1.25-acre (0.51 ha) triangular site that had been a parking lot. The 30,000-square-foot (2,787 m2) facility serves 350 students in grades six through 12—86 percent of whom come from economically disadvantaged households. Classrooms are oriented around a two-story multipurpose room that is decorated with multilingual graphics taken from the school’s mission statement. This room serves as the structure’s “living room” and is used as a cafeteria, main assembly hall, and central social space.
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.
The largest and most comprehensive housing development for the homeless in Orange County, the Village of Hope is located on a five-acre (two-hectare) site of the former Tustin Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, California. A truly comprehensive facility, the shelter provides housing for 192 homeless men, women, and children and includes child care, health, job-training, and educational services on a single site. The product of a partnership between two nonprofits, HomeAid Orange County and the Orange County Rescue Mission, the US$33 million community asset was developed debt-free over 14 years, largely through in-kind and cash donations from homebuilders, architects, and engineers around the region.
Detroiters and national observers alike have raved about Campus Martius since it opened in November 2004 at the city’s historic crossroads, a once gritty intersection where five major streets converge. The inaugural winner of the Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award, the project is a 2.5-acre (1-ha) oasis of imaginative horticulture, green granite walls, and crushed limestone paths, returning vibrancy and spurring investment in the formerly downtrodden downtown. The $20 million urban park manages to serve as both a peaceful refuge and a popular destination that attracts more than 2 million visitors a year.
At first glance, the Corvinus University/Studium office building is merely another seven-story office block—albeit a Class A office building with a spectacular vista of the Danube and a multitude of amenities—in downtown Budapest. But the story of how this development came to be is a first in Hungary, a country that shifted in 1989 from a centrally planned economy to a free-market system and one still unaccustomed to public/private partnerships. The Corvinus University/Studium building is a win-win-win achievement for a public university (Corvinus), a private developer (Wing), and the city of Budapest.
The Packing House is a 42,000-square-foot (3,902 sq m) food hall that opened in 2014 in downtown Anaheim, California. The project, spearheaded by the city of Anaheim and LAB Holding LLC, transformed a former citrus packing facility— originally constructed in 1919—into a space that hosts a variety of local food vendors and includes an outdoor area that features community gatherings and a weekly farmers market.
King’s Cross Station is a historic train station, first built in 1852, that has been renovated, expanded, and modernized, and now serves as a new focal point for the city of London. In addition to the train station, the 4.5-hectare project includes office and retail space, as well as a soaring new interior public concourse and a new public square at the front of the station. King’s Cross Station is located at the heart of a major redevelopment district in London, aptly named King’s Cross.