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James Corner Field Operations designs an iconic circular park for the Philadelphia Navy Yard

10/07/2015
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    The famed co-designers of the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/high-line" target="_blank">High Line</a> have reinvigorated yet another post-industrial site with a dramatic new park. Landscape architecture and urban design firm <a href="http://www.fieldoperations.net/" target="_blank">James Corner Field Operations</a> recently completed the Philadelphia Navy Yards Central Green, a 5-acre park anchored at the heart of the 1,200-acre Philadelphia Navy Yard Corporate Center. The green space is a bold departure from the typical office park design, and features sustainable elements and circular pockets of native landscaping that reference the site’s historic flora, from wetlands to meadow.
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  • Philadelphia Navy Yard Central Green by James Corner Field Operations
    From above, the park looks curiously non-naturalistic with its hard circular shapes that may bring to mind AutoCAD drawings and circle template stencils.
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  • Philadelphia Navy Yard Central Green by James Corner Field Operations
    The designers presumably wanted the park to double as a work of art when from viewed from above in the adjacent buildings.
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  • Philadelphia Navy Yard Central Green by James Corner Field Operations
    Carefully placed and varied textures, color, and patterns in the landscape give the otherwise 2D-looking park dimension and interest from an aerial viewpoint.
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  • Philadelphia Navy Yard Central Green by James Corner Field Operations
    The circular outlines also delineate the zones of passive and active programming, from a sun lawn and hammock grove to a designated food truck parking area and bocce court.
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  • Philadelphia Navy Yard Central Green by James Corner Field Operations
    A 20-foot-wide Social Track frames the interior park and organizes the site’s circulation.
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  • Philadelphia Navy Yard Central Green by James Corner Field Operations
    The Central Green was also planted with over 200 new trees and includes permeable paving and a depressed wet meadow to mitigate stormwater runoff.
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Philadelphia Navy Yard Central Green by James Corner Field Operations

The famed co-designers of the High Line have reinvigorated yet another post-industrial site with a dramatic new park. Landscape architecture and urban design firm James Corner Field Operations recently completed the Philadelphia Navy Yards Central Green, a 5-acre park anchored at the heart of the 1,200-acre Philadelphia Navy Yard Corporate Center. The green space is a bold departure from the typical office park design, and features sustainable elements and circular pockets of native landscaping that reference the site’s historic flora, from wetlands to meadow.

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