President Barack Obama at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Construction site.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio is one of the fastest growing pediatric centers in the country. Recognizing a need to grow within a planned framework, the hospital commissioned OLIN to lead a multidisciplinary team to develop a strategy for expansion. OLIN’s master plan re-envisions a health care campus that pairs growth opportunities with reinvestment in the neighborhood and public open space. The planning framework provides principles which will guide future expansion and reinforce the hospital’s mission of care and healing. In addition, OLIN designed a six-acre “healing park” for the campus, composed of a series of playful children’s gardens and an illuminated gateway at the intersection of Parsons and Livingston Avenues, both additionally enhanced by allees of street trees and planted medians. President Barack Obama recently toured the Parsons and Livingston Avenues construction site as it is the ten-thousandth Recovery Act road project to get underway. The road improvement project is expected to create over 3,000 construction jobs and will contribute to the broader economic development effort underway in the Columbus area.
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Events Recent Work‚ President visits construction site of OLIN project‚
…”the space has been organized as a series of pleasurable urban experiences.”
Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/98583599.html#ixzz0tre2s1sr
Events Press Recent Work‚ Philadelphia Inquirer Praises PAFA Lenfest Plaza Design‚ David Rubin
At a Philadelphia press conference today, Claes Oldenberg presented drawings and a model of his “Paintbrush” sculpture for Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Lenfest Plaza, designed by OLIN’s David Rubin. The plaza will serve as a marker for the Academy, as well as the gateway to Philadelphia’s Museum Mile, linking the Academy with other art institutions situated along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, including the new Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
http://www.philly.com/philly/gallery/20100708_5-story_Oldenburg_sculpture_to_rise_at_PAFA.html
Events Recent Work‚ Claes Oldenburg Sculpture coming to OLIN plaza‚ David Rubin
Philadelphia political, civic and cultural leaders break ground on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
On June 7, a large press conference was held to announce several projects that will significantly improve the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the site of Philadelphia’s premiere cultural institutions. The Parkway, which never fully realized its original vision as a tree-lined, civic boulevard due to lack of development and vehicular congestion, will soon possess a landscape befitting its national cultural importance.
Part of this revitalization is OLIN’s rejuvenated landscape for the Rodin Museum, housing one of the largest collections of Rodin’s work in the world. While honoring the spirit of the original garden, OLIN’s design creates a stunning new entry sequence and an engaging, seasonal garden within. New paving, trees and native plantings provide a vibrant ensemble in which to experience the iconic artwork. The garden will not only serve the Museum but provide a restored urban oasis along the Parkway. Extending from City Hall’s Dilworth Plaza, currently under design by OLIN, to the vast Fairmount Park system, the Parkway’s new vision will create new opportunities for social interaction, increase the amount of trees and plantings, and greatly improve pedestrain and bicycle circulation.
Events Recent Work‚ Rodin Museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway‚ Susan Weiler
Camana Bay on Grand Cayman is a 500-acre community that sets a new standard of development in the Caribbean, putting sustainability at the forefront. OLIN has been involved in the master planning and landscape design since 1997, with the mixed-use town center recently opened. Camana Way, a garden parkway between two major roads, serves as one of the first significant landscapes brought to fruition. Designed to showcase the plants of the five common ecosystems found across Grand Cayman, from the Caribbean beaches to the mangrove wetlands, Camana Way is a pedagogic landscape for the entire community.
A small reference book was researched, authored and designed by OLIN for the use and edification of residents, local students and visitors. Many of the plants chosen for Camana Way are not found in nurseries or documented in plant books. Therefore, wherever possible, the plant book describes how each plant was used in the past, and its environmental value to the island. Together these native plants of Grand Cayman create a beautiful landscape while attracting indigenous birds, butterflies, bats and iguana with their flowers and fruit.
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Press Recent Work‚ Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts featured on Philebrity‚ David Rubin
OLIN Partner Susan Weiler is lead-author of Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Landscapes over Structure, the definitive new book on the environmental, social, and economic benefits associated with transforming roofs into floors. The OLIN studio has championed the benefits of roof as floor in sustainable design since the 1970s, inventing new construction and planting technologies for dozens of projects. Merging landscape and architecture, these projects create valuable social space while replenishing our world’s diminishing resources.
A snapshot of OLIN green roofs…
Read more about the project on the ASLA’s blog The Dirt
Recent Work‚ U.S. Embassy featured in The Dirt‚ Hallie Boyce, Laurie Olin
Design from winning team KieranTimberlake/OLIN
OLIN is proud to announce that its team, led by renowned architects KieranTimberlake, has won the design competition for the new U.S. Embassy in London. Partners Laurie Olin and Hallie Boyce will lead the design efforts. From among 37 architectural submissions, four finalists were chosen to explore the symbolism of the Embassy and its presence and position in the cityscape of London. OLIN was the landscape architect of choice for three of the four competition finalists: KieranTimberlake, Morphosis and Richard Meier & Partners, all of whom worked for nearly a year before making their final presentations to the jury.
The U.S. Department of State’s goal was to create an Embassy and landscape with a timeless quality to appropriately represent the United States of America in the United Kingdom. The winning team was selected by a distinguished jury of both American and British leaders in the fields of architecture, academia and diplomacy for a design which “met the goal of creating a modern, welcoming, timeless, safe and energy efficient embassy for the 21st century.”
The anticipated ground breaking for the Embassy will be in 2013 with a goal to complete construction in 2017. In addition to KieranTimberlake and OLIN, members of the winning team include Arup for Sustainability, MEP/FP and Civil Engineering; Weidlinger Associates for Structural and Blast Engineering; Gensler for workplace design; Davis Langdon for Cost Consulting; and Sako & Associates for Technical Security.
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Recent Work‚ OLIN selected as Landscape Architect for new U.S. Embassy in London‚ Hallie Boyce, Laurie Olin
