The Boston Parks Department has announced Mayor Marty Walsh's 2017 Neighborhood Coffee Hour series schedule. During these events, the Mayor meets with residents at local parks to talk about open space and other needs in the neighborhood. The events double as park openings for newly-renovated parks such as Monsignor Reynolds Playground in the South End (July 18th), which was designed by CBA. Other CBA-designed parks on the schedule include Almont Park in Mattapan and Paris Street Playground in East Boston. Visit the link to see the full schedule and see if you can attend one in your neighborhood!
Read more here: https://www.boston.gov/news/mayor-walsh-announces-2017-coffee-hour-series
How designers of Boston's outdoor classrooms arrived at a "kit of parts" that really works.
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In the Spring 2015 issue of Cape Cod Home Magazine, this sensitively designed property was featured on the cover "This lower cape farm house designed and built by Chatham's Polhemus Savery DaSilva, is a careful integration of form and function. The house was sited to avoid taking down a large tree, keep lawn areas in scale and leave surrounding woods and meadows as untouched as possible."
In their March 2015 Parks issue, Landscape Architect and Specifier News selected John Ruiz Park in Chelsea for one of the Feature Articles! We're pleased and proud to have our work recognized once again: "When Chelsea, Mass. obtained a 7,315 square foot parcel in the heart of a densely-populated neighborhood, the space was a brownfield site. With open space at a premium, and opportunities to create new public parks rare, the City administration settled on a new park as the highest and best use of the property..."
