MacArthur Park District Master Plan, Little Rock, Arkansas
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| MacArthur Park District Master Plan | |
| Designer | Conway+Schulte Architects, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| Location | Little Rock, Arkansas, USA |
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| Building Type | Town and City |
| Climate | Cold Temperate |
| Context | Urban |
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| Notes | with University of Arkansas Community Design Center as associate firm. Also known as Connections: MacArthur Park District Master Plan. |
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| Client | City of Little Rock, Parks and Recreation |
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"True to it’s name, Conway+Schulte Architects' MacArthur Park District Master Plan makes Connections. C+SA’s plan for Little Rock, Arkansas’s oldest municipal park forges connections in, around and beyond the park, offering to transform an under-utilized urban asset into a signature public space. Within the park, the circular pond and floating deck mark the centerpiece of a landscape designed to attract park users of all ages, while new programs and sustainable features re-connect the park to site-based institutions - Arkansas Art Center and MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. Park edges extend the park’s sustainable features into the surrounding neighborhoods reinforcing the vision of the park as the anchor for an urban landscape network including transit, bike and pedestrian paths. Beyond the park, this multi-modal connective tissue links park users to local schools, recreation areas and citywide arts and tourist attractions at the larger urban scale.
"The American Institute of Architects Award jurors celebrated the team’s approach, “connecting a historically residential area of Little Rock in a way that also extends the park beyond its highway-induced isolation, is an excellent endeavor to mitigate the effects of other-scaled urban infrastructures and use connective landscape amenities to enhance the quality of the urban experience and “eyes on-the-street” security. The goal of the project is that the renovated park will “grow neighboring districts” by encouraging commercial, residential and institutional development. The result of this vision is an outdoor public room connected to the city by linking the actions of recreation, transit, commerce, entertainment, and everyday life. The juror’s noted the applicability of the project to otherwise afflicted urban environments, “This set of solutions is not only a specific case, it is also a transferable approach to urban reconstruction.”
"Led by William Conway, AIA principal in Minneapolis based Conway+Schulte Architects and UMN School of Architecture Associate Professor, the project team included: Stephen D. Luoni, University of Arkansas Community Design Center, George Wittenberg, University of Arkansas Little Rock Urban Studies Program, Tom Oslund, oslund.and.assoc., Chris Suneson, McClelland Consulting Engineers, and Jon Commers, Donjek." - Conway+Shulte Architects
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- Associate Firm: University of Arkansas Community Design Center
- Consultant: University of Arkansas Little Rock Urban Studies, Donjek Public Finance
- Engineer: McClelland Consulting Engineers
- Landscape Architect: Oslund and Associates
Led by William Conway, AIA principal in Minneapolis based Conway+Schulte Architects and UMN School of Architecture Associate Professor, the project team included: Stephen D. Luoni, University of Arkansas Community Design Center, George Wittenberg, University of Arkansas Little Rock Urban Studies Program, Tom Oslund, oslund.and.assoc., Chris Suneson, McClelland Consulting Engineers, and Jon Commers, Donjek. Also known as Connections: MacArthur Park District Master Plan.
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- Institute Honor Awards for Architecture
- "AIA National Design Awards 2010", by ArchitectureWeek No. 462, 2010.0210, p N1.1.
