Salt Lake City Redevelopment Blocks 75 and 76 Salt Lake City, Utah ...
PROJECT NAME
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
SWA is currently working on the urban design and landscape architecture for the redevelopment of (2) city blocks in downtown Salt Lake City, directly across from the Mormon Temple. The project consists of (5) residential towers, (1) office tower, many high-rise mixed-use buildings, and a large retail component. The project has two overall clients – PRI (Property Reserve, Inc.), which is the real estate development branch of the Mormon church, and The Taubman Company, which is a retail developer from Michigan. SWA is working with two sets of architects: ZGF for the residential towers, and Callison for the retail piece.
Salt Lake City Redevelopment Blocks 75 and 76 LOCATION
Salt Lake City, Utah CLIENT
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership Callison Architecture, Inc.
Landscape Narrative— The landscape concept takes its inspiration from the City Creek of Salt Lake City. City Creek is the water source that provided water to the founders of Salt Lake City, and it supplied drinking water to the residents as well as irrigation water for the crops. The original route of City Creek traversed the site from north to south along Main Street, and this project is an opportunity to expose this meaningful part of history to the residents of Salt Lake City as well as the general public. The landscape design concept for bringing City Creek into the project begins with a rock outcropping that represents a visible source of the creek at the high point of the site by the Eagle Gate Tower. The water of City Creek bubbles up, as if from a spring, among these rocks and begins to flow southward along the plaza between Tower 4 and Eagle Gate Tower. This slow creek meanders its way south until it falls in a grand cascade down to the retail level below. The cascade represents some of the falls along a mountain creek and is visible to people inside the food court, to people shopping in the galleria space and to people entering the site along Regent Street from 100 South.
OTHER CONSULTANT TEAM MEMBERS
Lighting—Horton Lees Brogden Fountain—CMS Collaborative; WET Design Environmental Graphics – Selbert Perkins SCOPE OF WORK
Urban Design/ Landscape Architecture PROJECT SIZE
25 acres DATE BEGUN
October 2006 SWA OFFICE
San Francisco
City Creek continues to traverse the site after the cascade in a sinuous oxbow formation. Surrounded by riparian species and comfortable site furniture, this oxbow court is a wonderful gathering place for groups as well as a perfect place for people watching. The oxbow ultimately terminates at the east edge of the galleria and then weaves its way through the retail space in a series of pools, rivulets, and fish ponds. The shoppers really get a sense that the creek was here first, and that the paving and the shops were built around this wonderful piece of nature. Ultimately, City Creek makes a bend to the south and ultimately cascades down a second waterfall to the terminus of the creek, where it ends in a large fish pool where parents and children can enjoy looking at some of the fish associated with riparian systems.
SWA PROJECT TEAM
René Bihan, Jim Lee, Aleksandra Dudukovic, Claire Napawan, Ross Nadeau, Yan Mei
Other elements of the landscape design support the overall concept of urban living, with pocket parks, roof gardens, and landscape connections throughout the two blocks. Complementing the new architecture, the landscape helps to strengthen the feeling of a new exciting urban district that surrounds City Creek. S
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
SWA is currently working on the urban design and landscape architecture for the redevelopment of (2) city blocks in downtown Salt Lake City, directly across from the Mormon Temple. The project consists of (5) residential towers, (1) office tower, many high-rise mixed-use buildings, and a large retail component. The project has two overall clients – PRI (Property Reserve, Inc.), which is the real estate development branch of the Mormon church, and The Taubman Company, which is a retail developer from Michigan. SWA is working with two sets of architects: ZGF for the residential towers, and Callison for the retail piece.
Salt Lake City Redevelopment Blocks 75 and 76 LOCATION
Salt Lake City, Utah CLIENT
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership Callison Architecture, Inc.
Landscape Narrative— The landscape concept takes its inspiration from the City Creek of Salt Lake City. City Creek is the water source that provided water to the founders of Salt Lake City, and it supplied drinking water to the residents as well as irrigation water for the crops. The original route of City Creek traversed the site from north to south along Main Street, and this project is an opportunity to expose this meaningful part of history to the residents of Salt Lake City as well as the general public. The landscape design concept for bringing City Creek into the project begins with a rock outcropping that represents a visible source of the creek at the high point of the site by the Eagle Gate Tower. The water of City Creek bubbles up, as if from a spring, among these rocks and begins to flow southward along the plaza between Tower 4 and Eagle Gate Tower. This slow creek meanders its way south until it falls in a grand cascade down to the retail level below. The cascade represents some of the falls along a mountain creek and is visible to people inside the food court, to people shopping in the galleria space and to people entering the site along Regent Street from 100 South.
OTHER CONSULTANT TEAM MEMBERS
Lighting—Horton Lees Brogden Fountain—CMS Collaborative; WET Design Environmental Graphics – Selbert Perkins SCOPE OF WORK
Urban Design/ Landscape Architecture PROJECT SIZE
25 acres DATE BEGUN
October 2006 SWA OFFICE
San Francisco
City Creek continues to traverse the site after the cascade in a sinuous oxbow formation. Surrounded by riparian species and comfortable site furniture, this oxbow court is a wonderful gathering place for groups as well as a perfect place for people watching. The oxbow ultimately terminates at the east edge of the galleria and then weaves its way through the retail space in a series of pools, rivulets, and fish ponds. The shoppers really get a sense that the creek was here first, and that the paving and the shops were built around this wonderful piece of nature. Ultimately, City Creek makes a bend to the south and ultimately cascades down a second waterfall to the terminus of the creek, where it ends in a large fish pool where parents and children can enjoy looking at some of the fish associated with riparian systems.
SWA PROJECT TEAM
René Bihan, Jim Lee, Aleksandra Dudukovic, Claire Napawan, Ross Nadeau, Yan Mei
Other elements of the landscape design support the overall concept of urban living, with pocket parks, roof gardens, and landscape connections throughout the two blocks. Complementing the new architecture, the landscape helps to strengthen the feeling of a new exciting urban district that surrounds City Creek. S
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