Downtown Complete Streets in a Historic City
Employing ‘complete streets’ techniques within the heart of the Nation’s Oldest City, a $3 million dollar rehabilitation of the historic streets, dating from the 1573 Town Plan, has created renewed life, vibrancy, and accessibility. Locally referred to as the “Downtown Improvements District” and comprising multiple blocks of Hypolita Street, Treasury Street, and Spanish Street, the design fully integrates the historically appropriate streetscape with a full building-line-to-building-line replacement of underground infrastructure.
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Stairs: Where Landscape and Architecture Meet
The entry stair is the introduction to the story that your home or building tells. Paying the proper attention to this feature will help visitors to better understand your own personal narrative. The steps you ascend to reach the front porch or stoop may be seen as an obstacle by some, but we see them as an opportunity to create a meaningful connection between architecture and landscape.
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Telling a Community’s Story
Telling a community’s story is often about creating places and landscapes that are authentic historic or contemporary interpretations for each unique place. These experiences compel us to engage in the surroundings. These stories make us want to come back often to the place. Our recent work for the University of West Florida Historic Trust’s Museum Plaza in downtown Pensacola and Market Square Park in downtown High Springs are great illustrations of creative community storytelling.
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Making a Monument: Andrew Young Crossing
In the summer of June 1964, the Civil Rights Act was lagging in the US Senate, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was working diligently to maintain civility in the unrest across the South. Martin Luther King, Jr., along with his senior aide Andrew Young, were concerned that any violence would be used by Southern politicians as reason to defeat the bill.
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