Berger Partnership, landscape architecture and Urban Design http://www.bergerpartnership.com Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:08:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Seattle Snow http://www.bergerpartnership.com/seattle-snow/ http://www.bergerpartnership.com/seattle-snow/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:08:10 +0000 bpadmin http://www.bergerpartnership.com/?p=2521 We love the way snow can transform any landscape and get us to experience a site in fresh new ways.  A few shots from Sunday’s snow at Magnuson Park.

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    • ]]>     http://www.bergerpartnership.com/salishan-neighborhood-hope-vi-revitalization-2/feed/ 0     Magnuson Shore Ponds Update http://www.bergerpartnership.com/magnuson-shore-ponds-update/ http://www.bergerpartnership.com/magnuson-shore-ponds-update/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:03:25 +0000 bpadmin http://www.bergerpartnership.com/?p=2483 Its official, the Magnuson Shore Ponds are now full and are looking REALLY cool.  One of the cool features is our path that cuts through a very shallow  “emergent shelf” that in time will all be emergent vegetation. If you’re wondering, the orange construction fencing will remain until plants leaf out in the spring to keep well intentioned visitors and dogs from trampling them!

    ]]>     http://www.bergerpartnership.com/magnuson-shore-ponds-update/feed/ 0     Productive Neighborhoods Report http://www.bergerpartnership.com/productive-neighborhoods-report/ http://www.bergerpartnership.com/productive-neighborhoods-report/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:50:41 +0000 bpadmin http://www.bergerpartnership.com/?p=2460 We are very excited to announce that our internship report, Productive Neighborhoods: A case study based exploration of Seattle Urban Agriculture Projects, is complete and hot off the press. As designers we are eager to design spaces for urban agriculture but found that we lacked the understanding of how to integrate farming into projects in a way that would translate into a viable business model. With a better understanding of the current state of urban agriculture in Seattle, we can help integrate these concepts on projects. 

    A case study page from the report of Bastille Restaurant’s roof top garden.

     

    A case study page from the report of Amaranth Farm

    To view the full report visit the project page or Blurb.

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    • ]]>     http://www.bergerpartnership.com/productive-neighborhoods-4/feed/ 0     Winter Solstice at Magnuson Park http://www.bergerpartnership.com/winter-solstice-at-magnuson-park/ http://www.bergerpartnership.com/winter-solstice-at-magnuson-park/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:26:25 +0000 bpadmin http://www.bergerpartnership.com/?p=2408 If you’re looking for something to do for the winter solstice, perhaps head out to Magnuson Park and celebrate the solstice by watching the new shore ponds fill up… a never to be repeated occurrence! The shore ponds, isolated from the existing Phase 2 wetlands during construction by two coffer dams, are now being filled, which started on Monday and will be potentially filled by Thursday or Friday. The coffer dams have been removed, and while perhaps less dramatic than the breaching of the Montlake Cut in the early 1900s, it is no less momentous to those of us who have been involved with this project! 

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    ]]>     http://www.bergerpartnership.com/winter-solstice-at-magnuson-park/feed/ 0     Magnuson Park Shore Ponds Progress http://www.bergerpartnership.com/magnuson-park-shore-ponds-progress/ http://www.bergerpartnership.com/magnuson-park-shore-ponds-progress/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:58:47 +0000 bpadmin http://www.bergerpartnership.com/?p=2389 If you haven’t been to Magnuson Park lately to see Phase 3 construction progress, things are moving fast! Ponds have been shaped, snags have been “planted,” as have real plants, and the “centerline feature” now marks the centerline of the 400-foot-wide runway that once crossed the site.

    The top corner of the new overlook berm is located on the centerline of the old runway (intentional of course!) and when you stand on the top and look NW the centerline is now marked by cast-in-place “giant steps” down the berm, ringed by salvaged concrete; a linear planting of emergent vegetation down the middle of the pond (soon to be) surrounded by open water; and a jumble of placed granite stones that fade into the upland shrubs, constructed out of granite salvaged from the foundation of King Street Station.

    Ponds are filling up fast with the recent rains, but will deliberately hold about 24” below their ultimate elevation until next spring to aid with establishment of emergent vegetation around the edges of the ponds.

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    • ]]>     http://www.bergerpartnership.com/washington-park-arboretum-pacific-connections-garden/feed/ 0     Berger Attends and Presents at Regional APA Event http://www.bergerpartnership.com/berger-attends-and-presents-at-regional-apa-event/ http://www.bergerpartnership.com/berger-attends-and-presents-at-regional-apa-event/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:59:05 +0000 bpadmin http://www.bergerpartnership.com/?p=2347 Berger’s Todd Bronk recently presented “Adapting for Climate Change,” a case study on the Richmond, BC Waterfront completed for the 2010 Winter Games, at this year’s Washington|Oregon APA Conference. Todd led the design and consultant team for the project while at AECOM and has been sharing his experience and knowledge with professionals along the west coast for the past six months at conferences and lectures.

    The presentation reviewed the decisions made early in the redesign of the master plan and visioning process, design stages, and into construction, focusing on the adaptation strategies for climate change that shaped a reclaimed waterfront park site and integrated it into a shoreline protection system along Richmond’s future urban waterfront edge. The presentation was part of a Panel on Sea Rise/Adaptation that included presentations on Regulatory Tools for Sea Level Rise by Nicole Faghin, AECOM; Adapting to Rising Tides in the San Francisco Bay Area, Marcia Tobin, AECOM; and an update on Washington State’s Response Effort to Climate Change by Carol Lee Roalkvam, WSDOT. Nancy Walker, AECOM, served as the panel moderator.

    Berger’s Jason Henry also attended the conference.

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