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9. Waterloo Park
AUSTIN, TEXAS
A decade ago, Waterloo Park closed for the construction of an underground
tunnel that would redirect stormwater from the city to Lady Bird
Lake and keep floods from eroding the creek. The municipality and the
local nonprofit organization Waterloo Greenway Conservancy teamed
up to restore the run-down park, which reopened in 2021 as the first
phase of the restoration of the Waterloo Greenway. The 11-acre (4.5 ha)
Waterloo Park includes a 5,000-seat amphitheater, a place for food
trucks, gardens, walkways, a playground, and a restored creek. It also
has more than 500 new trees and eight large, transplanted live oaks.
Bioswales, rain gardens, and wetland terraces provide wildlife habitat
and make the water treatment process visible. Brooklyn-based
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and local landscape architect
dwg. designed the park; Thomas Phifer and Partners of New York City
designed the amphitheater. The second phase of the Greenway project
starts construction in fall 2022.
10. Xuhui Runway Park
SHANGHAI, CHINA
Once the runway for Longhua Airport, Xuhui Runway Park now serves
as an urban amenity and handles stormwater for new mixed-use development
rising in this formerly industrial area along the Huangpu River.
Sasaki's Boston and Shanghai offices collaborated to embody the
site's history in the new park, salvaging concrete runway panels for the
main pedestrian spine and adding light poles that reference the form
of airplane wings.
Completed in 2020 for Shanghai Xuhui Waterfront Development
Investment Construction Co., the park's individual spaces echo the
runway's linear form, with different materials, topographies, and uses
lending variety. Overlooks give pedestrians and bicyclists a chance to
observe the park from above; a sunken garden links neighboring areas
to the park's transit station. Restaurants, water features, a playground,
and a multipurpose lawn draw activity, and gardens and a birdwatching
grove provide spaces for people to reflect. Plant species are native
to the Yangtze River Delta. A rain garden and constructed wetland filter
stormwater for reuse in fountains and the irrigation system. UL
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WATERLOO CONSERVANCY
© INSAW PHOTOGRAPHY, COURTESY OF SASAKI
HOMER GONZALEZ

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