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Local and global, analog and digital, Michael Blier leads Landworks Studio into the wide world.
By Jessica Bridger
East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Image courtesy Michael Blier, FASLA.
The East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park site in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is a serious place: Bounded by a missile silo to the north, its double shore of coast and island form results from a dredge-ravaged coastline?and it is a major part of the city?s treated sewage effluent (TSE) program. The 70-hectare park opened in 2020 and provides a significant new public space for the city of 684,000 people. Jubail is a major industrial center; in fact, it is one of the largest industrial cities?and was once dubbed the largest civil engineering project?in the world, since its designation as a focus for Saudi industrial development in 1975. The park is a storage unit for TSE and is a major part of a national plan to provide public spaces throughout Saudi Arabia. After industry comes quality of life in the era of urban development.
A sketch of the Saudi Arabian coastal park shows the density of programming flowing across drawing types. Image courtesy Landworks Studio, Inc.
The park was designed by the Salem, Massachusetts, office of Landworks Studio, founded by the principal Michael Blier, FASLA, in 1996. The firm is intensely local, New England salt and sun, hand-drawing, and hard models?but also increasingly international, digital, and cross-border/cross-culture collaborative. ...
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Fuente de la noticia: landscapearchitecturemagazine
Fecha de publicación: 16-06-2022 21:41
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