Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is a huge urban park that makes visitors forget they’re in the middle of one of the largest cities in the United States. Part of the reason they’re able to do so is on account of features like Shakespeare’s Garden, which is filled with elements directly and indirectly tied […]
Nearly 4,000 Oregon residents lost their lives during World War II in battle theatres that range from Europe to Africa to the Pacific. To commemorate the service and sacrifice of these Oregonians, the Oregon World War II Memorial was created in Salem, the capital of the state. The monument enables citizens from across the state […]
Sitting on the site of the former Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant, Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington is an incredible example of what it means to transform a space while also retaining and celebrating the history associated with it. With a design that incorporations the leftover gas plant equipment in it, Gas Works […]
As the first stop along the Freedom Trail, Boston Common has a history and notoriety that goes beyond it being the oldest park in the United States. By featuring so many notable monuments while also being a place for the contemporary community to gather for an event or to simply enjoy a green space in […]
A contemporary public park in the heart of Boston, the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway was created to be a public park that re-connected areas of Boston that had been isolated from one another by a world-class traffic problem. The elimination of one of the most congested highways in the United States created an opportunity to […]
Boston-area survivors of Nazi concentration camps drove the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial. Support and sponsorships from more than 3,000 individuals and organizations enabled the creation of a memorial that is designed to encourage a universal understanding of all that happened during the Nazi regime. Holocaust Symbolism and Sobering Experiences Holocaust survivor, Stephan […]
The five-acre Paul Revere Park resides on the Charles River in Boston. Sitting in the shadow of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, it was the first of the four new parks to be built that are designed to “link the river to the sea“. Completed in 1999, the park is part of […]