Soundscape Park

Miami Beach, FL

Project Manager / Senior Landscape Architect - with West 8

A former parking lot is transformed into a verdant oasis that doubles as an actively programmed event space and day-to-day public park fronting the Frank Gehry-designed New World Symphony Building. While a Senior Landscape Architect at West 8, I was responsible leading the design team through documentation and construction of this multi-award winning project. 

The park’s layout and arrangement is guided by its programmatic components and desired pedestrian connections to its immediate surroundings, and is artistically informed by a ground plane composition that extends the symphony building’s interior geometries to the outside. White concrete pathways rise and fall with subtle topography that lifts the park from the extremely shallow water table, providing unique seating edges carefully positioned to offer a variety of veiled vistas - distant and near - throughout the park. Veitchia palms support the preserved black olive trees and transplanted flamboyant trees to provide a shaded refuge from Miami’s scorching heat. Three dramatic "cloud" structures support bougainvillea vines a denote parks dominant entry points.

The park design integrates an unprecedented A/V system that works in conjunction with the building’s massive exterior projection wall. Concerts occurring within the New World Symphony building are simultaneously screened as WALLCASTs for public enjoyment in the park.

Role on the Project:

• Project Manager

• Facilitated timely delivery of Design and Permit drawings through Construction Documents in 8 weeks.

• Established Construction Document and Quality Control standards and processes for West 8 in North America.

• Management and oversight of sub-consultant team from DD phase.

• Led the preparation and Quality Control of Construction Documentation and project specifications.

• On-site construction administration through project completion.