Location: Seattle, WA Owner: Seattle Parks & Recreation The new, award-winning Alice Ball Park created much-needed open space in the increasingly congested city. Located within a neighborhood retail corridor, the site is across the street from a public library and abuts single family zoned properties. OCI landscape architects and urban designers led the design of the
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Location: Seattle, WA Owner: Seattle Parks & Recreation OCI is designing a new 1.3 acre park in the North Rainier neighborhood of Seattle to provide critical open space near a commercial corridor, several multi-family developments, including senior and low-income housing, and single-family homes. OCI has led a robust public involvement process, including outreach in eight languages
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Location: Seattle, WA Owner: Seattle Parks & Recreation Tucked into a quiet neighborhood, Virgil Flaim Park in Lake City features a playground, picnic areas, paths and a multipurpose field. OCI landscape architects designed amenities for a 7,500 sf skatespot for all ages and abilities, a basketball court, viewing areas with seating, pathways, and plantings. The stormwater
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Location: Seattle, WAOwner: Seattle Parks and Recreation Located in the least expected of places (underneath Interstate 5 in Seattle), the I-5 Collonade park reconnects two severed neighborhoods and creates community gathering and activity spaces. The design challenge was to solve a grade difference of over 70-feet and to address unsafe hidden areas and inaccessibility. The
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Location: Seattle, WAOwner: Seattle Parks and Recreation Through a series of design charrettes, Osborn Consulting, Inc. (OCI) team members worked with Through a series of design charrettes, OCI landscape architects worked with community stakeholders and the Seattle Parks & Recreation Department to create a variety of community spaces within the small urban park. The Cottage
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