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General Project Information

Architectural Credit:

Machado Silvetti
OJB
Lam Partners
RSM
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Cosentini 
Withers Ravenel 
Balfour Beatty
Irrigation Consulting Inc
Fluidity Design Consultants

Location: Cary, North Carolina, United States
Project Substantial Completion Date: 11/1/2023
Program type(s): Food Service – General, Food Service - Restaurant/Cafeteria, Mixed-Use, Public Assembly - Entertainment/Culture, Public Assembly – General, Public Assembly – Recreation, Public Assembly - Social/Meeting, Retail Store
Total Site Area (gross sq. ft): 304920
Total Building Area (gross sq. ft): 23117
Project substantial completion date: 11/1/2023
Climate zone: 4a
Project site: Partially previously developed, Historic structure or district
Project team: Jeffry Burchard: Machado Silvetti
Austin Ward: Machado Silvetti
Emily Ashby: Machado Silvetti
Meric Ozgen: Machado Silvetti
Danny Salamoun: Machado Silvetti
Seiee Kim: Machado Silvetti
Brayton Gregory: Machado Silvetti
Cody Klein: OJB
Simon Beer: OJB
Jason Ferster: OJB
Caroline Lezon: OJB
Steven Piper: OJB
Jungsoo Kim: OJB
Sookyung Shin: OJB
Ed Tang: Withers Ravenel
Aniruddha S. Nene: Cosentini
Paul Kassabian: Simpson Gumpertz Heger
Rebecca Lubrano: Structural: Simpson Gumpertz Heger
James Perry: Lam Partners
Kyle Richter: RSM
Jim Garland: Fluidity Design Consultants
Page Martin: Balfour Beatty
Ian Kremen: Balfour Beatty
Evan Hanes: Balfour Beatty

Project Overview:
A cohesive assemblage of landscape and architecture, this downtown urban park—envisioned for twenty years and newly completed—is a study in program, tectonics, formal articulations, and circulation. A central Great Lawn Pavilion works as an urban stage, while other pavilions—including the sinuous Bark Bar and the more enclosed Academy Pavilion—come into conversation with each other and their surroundings, drawing the public in and through this lively new urban space at the center of the town’s historic core. Landscape and hardscape work in concert with each pavilion, creating a space for connection and community.

Submission portfolio

Downtown Cary Park

Category

Regional & Urban Design Awards

Description

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