Greensboro Center City Park
Civic Open Space | Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro’s Center City Park project demonstrates the power of parks to bring a community together. After a national search, Halvorson was selected to collaborate with foundations, citizens, and the City of Greensboro to develop a new destination park on a vacant city block at the heart of the downtown.
The principal organizing element of the firm's design is a 200 foot-long series of connected water features that can be experienced from all areas of the park. Pavilion and pergola canopies, along with plentiful shade trees, provide protection from the summer sun. Two large lawns support public events and impromptu recreation. The entire park celebrates, through the work of local artists, the heritage of the city from the weaving of denim cloth to Seagrove pottery to Greensboro's native son, author O. Henry.
RECOGNITION
2010 Economic + Business Development Award,
International Downtown Association
2009 Best Public Park / Best Free Thing To Do / Best Cheap Date Night / Best Place to Take Kids For Free | Readers' Choice Awards
Greensboro News & Record
SIZE
1.9 acres
principal-in-charge
Robert Uhlig FASLA LEED AP BD+C
Team
Client:
Action Greensboro, Inc.
Architect:
Touloukian Touloukian (pavilion + pergolas)
J. Hyatt Hammond (architect of record)
Structural | MEP Engineer:
j. Hyatt Hammond
Lighting Designer:
Light Defines Form
Civil Engineer:
Civil Designs
Construction Manager:
Rentenbach Constructors
Fountain Designer:
Dan Euser Waterarchitecture
Artists:
Judy Kensley McKie (bird bench)
Jim Cooper (bronze fountain)
Fred Johnston (ceramic sculpture)
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