The Hudson Companies Close on Financing for Pelham House, a Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development in the Village of Pelham
Credit: Marvel The financial closing of the residential development follows the construction of the new Municipal Center that will house the Village’s Fire Department, Police Department, and Administrative Offices PELHAM, NY: The Hudson Companies today announced the closing of $73 million in financing for the construction of Pelham House, a five-story residential development that will transform a former parking lot and Fire House into a transit-oriented development with 127 high...
How to create future heritage. Heatherwick studio’s newest district opens in Xi’an
A new district designed by Heatherwick studio has opened in Xi’an, honouring the Chinese city’s legacy of craftmanship and ceramics. The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD) is located south of the city’s historic centre between the ruins of the Temple of Heaven and the prominent Shaanxi TV tower. The district blends a retail podium with walkable streets, terraces and open plazas, offices, apartments, accommodation, green spaces, and a vertical park. Ceramics are at the heart of t...
Stantec selected to support Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation Section 4
C$24 million contract builds on Stantec and recently acquired Morrison Hershfield’s long-standing relationships with the City of Toronto Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has been selected by the City of Toronto for Owner’s Engineer/Technical Advisory Services (OETA) for the delivery of the F.G. Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation Project Section 4. Stantec will provide multidisciplinary engineering consulting services through planning and preliminary design,...
$96 Million Mixed-Use Development Opens at City Foundry STL
One Foundry Way development features 270 luxury apartments, ground-level retail (St. Louis, MO) Tenants have begun moving into the long-awaited mixed-use residential and retail development at City Foundry STL. One Foundry Way brings the first market-rate, high-rise apartments to Midtown St. Louis in nearly half a century. Designed by lead architect and interior design firm Lawrence Group, One Foundry Way is a $96 million mixed-use development that extends City Foundry STL Phase 1 – a...
Landscape Architecture Solutions to Climate Change Generate Significant Economic Benefits
Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel, Seattle, Washington / MIG ASLA Fund releases new assessment on the economic benefits of nature-based solutions Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel, Seattle, Washington / MIG Washington, D.C.– The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, has released a new brief on the economic benefits of landscape architecture and nature-based solutions. The brief is developed for global and U.S. economic policymakers...
New Guides for Landscape Architects Offer Practical Steps to Achieve Zero Emissions by 2040
“Large pieces of concrete were carefully tagged and salvaged from the loading dock for repurposing within the Birch Grove and gabion walls. A 100 percent native Piedmont Region planting palette was used.” ASLA 2021 Professional General Design Honor Award. Atlanta Diaries, Atlanta, Georgia. Perkins&Will / Sahar Coston-Hardy ASLA releases three new resources that cover how to decarbonize landscape architecture project specifications, the design process, and navigate environmental product data....
FK Architecture Designs Mixed-Use St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Project
St. Petersburg, FL: September 10, 2024, FK Architecture, a Fugleberg Koch Company, is pleased to announce its design for Whitney Village, a new development of a portion of the Jim & Heather Gills YMCA property in St. Petersburg’s Grand Central District. In collaboration with Wannemacher Jensen Architects (WJA), hired to design the YMCA redevelopment, and Place Architecture, which will oversee retail and mixed-use development, the new St. Petersburg development will feature a mixed-use, pedestria...
Stantec selected to lead sustainable corridor redevelopment plan connecting Kansas and Missouri
Long-term, multi-jurisdictional strategy will support infrastructure, transportation, and economic development Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has been selected to lead the Bi-State Sustainable Reinvestment Corridor project in Kansas and Missouri. The Mid-America Regional Council, the metro planning organization that oversees the region, chose Stantec to lead preliminary planning along the 24-mile corridor that connects four cities. The plan is funded by a $5.6 m...
Little Island, big impact - Heatherwick studio and Little Island's report shows the importance of public green spaces
©Hufton+Crow_037 Little Island may only be 2.4 acres but it makes a super-sized social impact, a new study has shown three years after it opened to the world. The research examined who uses this free public park and asked what visitors, artists and staff think about the space. It found that: Little Island attracts over 1.5 million visitors each year from a very diverse range of backgrounds and locations. 70% came from outside New York City and 30% were New York City residents....
Stantec-designed Orangeburg Railroad Corner Development breaks ground in South Carolina
Mixed-use project will include housing, retail, and a Civil Rights museum The City of Orangeburg, South Carolina, broke ground yesterday on the Orangeburg Railroad Corner Development. The 1-acre brownfield site will transform 12 historic, city-owned parcels into mixed-use commercial and residential spaces through new construction and reuse of heritage structures. Global integrated design firm Stantec collaborated on the project with the public-private partnership (P3) of the City and Ora...