Lawrence Halprin, Heritage Park Designer, Dies
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, one of the most creative voices in designing urban public space, passed away on Sunday at his home in California at the age of 93 from complications from a fall.
Halprin was a prolific designer, and created some of the most unique modernist public spaces in the United States. He studied [...]
Designing Heritage Park – Inside the Halprin Archives, Part One – Alternate Sites and Designs
Recently, we noted the city’s planned public meetings on the restoration of Heritage Park. The city is working with Laurie Olin, noted landscape architect who worked with Heritage Park’s original designer, Lawrence Halprin, to come up with an effective and respectful restoration plan for the long-neglected and intimate park on the Trinity Bluff just [...]
Read more »Fort Worth presents radically improved bicycle plan, aims to triple bicycle travel by 2015
Last night at the Central Library in Downtown Fort Worth, the city showcased a draft of a radically altered and improved bicycle transportation plan called “Bike Fort Worth.” Aiming to replace the rather lacking 1999 bike route plan with a more robust and elaborate system, the city has been working for a year and [...]
Read more »Trinity River Vision Bypass Channel Video
The Trinity River Vision Authority has posted this video, about nine and a half minutes in length, taking a look at the scale bypass channel model and the engineering and philosophy behind the project.
I’ve noticed that recently, a few more buildings have been demolished to make way for the TRV bypass channel, including the old [...]
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