Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Thomas Phifer & Partners As the culmination of an international competition, a team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) and Thomas Phifer and Partners has been chosen to design a 1.5-mile-long linear park in downtown Austin. The competition jury’s selection, which was announced on October 18, hinged on the team’s elegant vision for the transformation of the blighted banks of Waller Creek into a chain of large outdoor gathering spaces. The urban park is expected to be the capstone for a massive public works project intended to spur dramatic redevelopment of 15 blocks in

Waller Creek Design Competition, CMG and Public Architecture A competition jury in Austin is considering four very different design approaches to transform a 1.5-mile stretch of derelict urban parkland. The finalists’ conceptual plans for the riparian linear park, which meanders through the downtown, represent the middle phase of an international competition targeting the blighted banks of Waller Creek. An announcement is expected on October 18 to name the winning team of landscape architects partnered with an architecture firm. The selected team’s design will be the capstone for a massive public works project expected to spur dramatic redevelopment of 15 blocks

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Project Specs Dallas Center for Architecture Dallas, Texas Peter Doncaster, AIA, Booziotis & Co. << Return to article the People Architect Competition Winners and Design Architects: Peter Doncaster, AIA, of Booziotis & Co Architects, Dallas Nicholas Marshall, AIA, LEED AP, of nodesign, New Orleans Gabriel Smith, AIA of Thomas Phifer & Partners, New York Architect of record Booziotis & Co. Architects Aaron L. Farmer, AIA, LEED AP Peter Doncaster, AIA Donald Roberts, AIA Associate architect(s) Project Management Assistance was donated by: Ted Kollaja of Gensler Interior Design Assistance was donated by: Ted Kollaja of Gensler Kelly Warfield of Gensler Vida

The notion of a camp compound appealed to the project’s client, an active family wanting to be outdoors as much as possible at their vacation home near the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Nevada.