#WorksiteWednesday Here is an update from the North Bank Playground in Riverfront Park. If the nice weather holds, landscape installation should begin this week. We can’t wait to see the finished product this spring!
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As one component of the Four Corners/Bureau of Land Management Corridor Master Plan, the City of Coeur d’Alene decided to redevelop Mullan Road, a high-profile thoroughfare near the downtown core. Completed in 2016, the Mullan Road improvement project sought to increase the safety of the road while making it better serve the community and all forms of traffic.
Located between Independence Point beachfront, Fort Sherman Playground, and Memorial Softball Field, Mullan Road traverses through heavy pedestrian-traffic areas with significant mid-block pedestrian-crossing activity. New improved design accentuated pedestrian crossing locations, traffic-calming features, and the ability to close off the road during seasonally high pedestrian activity.
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Check out the evolution of the Ice Age Floods playground design. From evaluation of the existing conditions, to early concepts, the final design, and the finished product prepared for the public. This will be a Bernardo Wills Architects legacy project, fulfilling our commitment to making our community better through the spaces we design.
Last Thursday, Dell Hatch, Bernardo Wills Architects Principal and Landscape Architect, moderated One AEC panel on the Mead School District Project. We heard from key project team members behind the design and construction of the Union Stadium, Creekside Elementary, District Transportation Facility, and District Maintenance Facility projects. Bernardo Wills provided landscape architecture services for the District Transportation and Maintenance Facility, and athletic complex design for Union Stadium. It was great to hear from the design team, thank you OneAEC for including us!
Thanks to Garco Construction for these shots of the brand new Ridgeline High School in Liberty Lake, WA. Bernardo Wills Architects provided landscape architecture and athletic complex design services for this project. This is one of three athletic complexes Bernardo Wills Architects designed in 2020.
Another huge highlight of 2020 was the construction of the North Bank Playground in Riverfront Park. This update video from August shows LaRiviere and ID Sculpture crews working to bring the plans to life, including the hand-carved splash pad walls and climbing elements. Crews have wrapped up exterior site work for the year and will continue on the maintenance and operations building through the winter. The playground is scheduled for completion in early spring 2021.
Crews at the North Bank Playground at Riverfront Park are still going strong. The operations and maintenance building is dried in and ready for more snow. The exterior masonry and interior utilities have been completed, and the drywall installation is underway. The very-fun play tower is nearing completion, with the surrounding finished grade nearly finalized, tower slides placed, and the skin/panels are going up. Bravo to the crews busy on-site, no matter what weather gets thrown their way. We can’t wait to play in the spring.
Here’s a Good Read: The New York Times covers the completion of the Catalyst Building in the University District.
At the North Bank Playground at Riverfront Park, crews are working on the operations and maintenance building interior systems.