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Projects
Harvard Allston Science Complex
Tanglewood
Fresh Pond Park
North Point
IFAW
Teardrop Park
The High Line
Worcester Polytech
Boston Convention Center
Cincinnati Riverfront Park
Federal Building
Trilogy
Guangju, South Korea
Greenwich Academy
Harvard Housing
Almati, Kazakhstan
IFAW
MIT Sloan Center
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Wellesley College
Tuxedo
Harvard Allston Streetscape
Harvard Allston Science Complex
Central Wharf Plaza
Vassar Street, Cambridge
Boston Central Artery
Harvard Allston
Cambridge Street
Greensboro Center City Park
Federal Building
Crystal Bridges
Carnegie Mellon University
Bethel Woods Center For the Arts
Saint Albans School
Don River Park
Deer Island
Illinois Science and Technology
Hudson River Parks
Phillips Academy
Hatch Shell
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Battery Park City Ballfields
Copley Plaza
Arlington Fields
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Bates College
Mystic River Reservation
Boston Children’s Museum
Revere Beach
Ocean Spray
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Belle Isle Marsh
Wellesley College
Almati, Kazakhstan
Guangju, South Korea
Toronto, Canada
KKMC, Saudia Arabia
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Asian University for Women
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Teardrop Park, Battery Park City, New York, NY
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Teardrop Park, with its varied plantings, extensive rockwork, waterfalls and play areas, is a visual jewel and a center of activity in Manhattan's Battery Park City. Pine and Swallow designed and specified nine manufactured soil blends to meet stringent and complex geotechnical and horticultural demands. P&S also designed subsurface drainage and a wetland system, worked with local soil suppliers to find appropriate soil resources, and provided construction observation for the complex soil construction. Sustainable initiatives include reusing gray water from surrounding buildings for irrigation as well as sustainable construction materials. The plantings are designed to thrive in a relatively shady site and provide habitat for native and migratory birds. The soils are designed to support plant life without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
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(Photo: Friends of the High Line)
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The High Line, New York, NY
Field Operations, Inc.
The High Line establishes a greenbelt park along an abandoned 1.5-mile section of a former elevated freight railroad on the lower west side of Manhattan. This project created a variety of ecological environments as well as public amenities in, effectively, a rooftop condition. Pine and Swallow developed soil and drainage strategies to support the array of planting conditions, prepared soil profiles and specifications, reviewed soil submittals, and monitored soil blending and placement during construction.
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(Drawing: Stephen Stimson Associates)
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Harvard Allston Science Complex
Stephen Stimson Associates
The $1 billion Harvard Allston Science Complex is envisioned to be a premier center for science and is the first structure on the new Harvard Allston campus. The entire project is being developed as a sustainable site with a high level LEED rating. Pine and Swallow designed soils and assisted with design of a bioswale stormwater treatment system which runs through the four-building project and integrates landscapes spaces designed for varying micro-climate conditions.
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Fresh Pond Park, Cambridge, MA
Carol R. Johnson and Associates
The Fresh Pond Reservation is a 162-acre preserve surrounding a City of Cambridge drinking-water reservoir. The new park area included a soccer field, community gardens, path and trail systems, a butterfly meadow, and new wetlands and wet meadows. Pine and Swallow provided hydrologic design for the wetland storm water treatment system to protect drinking water supplies, created a soils management plan and soil blending strategies for the range of site landscapes, and assisted with stabilization systems for naturalized paths.
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(Drawing: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates)
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North Point, Cambridge, MA
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
North Point is a new community in Cambridge, MA located in a former rail yard and industrial site. The heart of the development is a 6 acre public park which serves not only as a focal point for the neighborhood but also as a natural stormwater treatment system. Pine and Swallow assisted with hydrologic design, including a system of biotreatment swales and a naturalized pond, and provided soil profiles, specifications and construction observation.
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Tanglewood Center for the Performing Arts, Lenox, MA
Richard Burck Associates
This 250-acre Tanglewood Center for the Performing Arts property is the site of summer music concerts and festivals, with more than 300,000 visitors each year. Located in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, Tanglewood’s rolling campus contains outdoor and indoor performance halls, studios and classrooms and has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937. In order to maintain the site’s casual character, Pine and Swallow assisted in creating an ADA-compliant crushed stone mix as a pathway paving material, integrating new paths with the existing landscape while meeting accessibility requirements. P&S also assisted with restoration and upgrading of the general site landscaping.
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Worcester Polytech, Worcester, MA
Brown Sardina
The newly constructed admissions building a WPI was designed to meet Leeds requirements, but when the plantings failed, Pine and Swallow was hired to investigate the causes and assist with a new landscape design. P&S evaluated soil and drainage conditions and provided a report to the college describing issues and restoration strategies, including modifications to the soils to support non-irrigated, but high profile plantings. P&S then assisted with new specifications and with construction observations to ensure successful rehabilitation of the areas.
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(Photo: Stephen Stimson Associates)
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The International Fund for Animal Welfare, Yarmouth, MA
Stephen Stimson Associates
The International Fund for Animal Welfare developed a brownfields site for its new headquarters. After site cleanup, native, drought tolerant plants were used for ecological restoration including connection to adjacent conservation areas. Vegetated swales and rain gardens were designed to provide biotreatment of stormwater and to increase infiltration. Pine and Swallow assisted with hydrologic and soil designs, created a soil management plan to optimize use of natural soil resources and provided construction observation services.
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(Drawing: Sasaki Associates)
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Cincinnati Riverfront Park
Sasaki Associates
The 32-acre central riverfront park is the remaining and largest jewel in a series of public parks reconnecting the heart of Cincinnati — Fountain Square — to the Ohio River. The entire park, including a major event lawn and street tree plantings, sits on top of an underground parking garage. Pine and Swallow assisted with soil design and planting recommendations, including a structural soil system for street tree plantings.
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(Photo: Richard Burke Associates)
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Boston Convention and Exposition Center
Richard Burck Associates
The new 1.7 million square foot Boston Convention Center anchors a mixed-use neighborhood in South Boston’s historic seaport district. The landscaped entranceway was designed to express the strong geometry of the architecture with plazas planted with honeylocust to flank the ceremonial and civic portal. Pine and Swallow designed soil blends and assisted with design of a system to collect stormwater runoff from the plaza surfaces and redistribute it to the tree roots below via gravity. The rainwater harvesting system was created as a prototypical long-term, sustainable solution for the passive irrigation of urban trees grown atop structure.
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(Photo: Moshe Safdie and Associates)
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Federal Building, Washington, DC
Brown Sardina, Inc.
This project involved construction of new headquarters for a federal agency that required the highest level of security standards. The landscape for the site included multiple courtyards and landscapes on structure as well as new streetscapes. all integrated with the security systems. Pine and Swallow developed soil specifications for the various planting areas, including structural horticultural soils and low maintenance rooftop conditions. During construction P&S was responsible for reviewing submittals and for approvals of soil media.
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(Photo: Halvorson Design Partnership)
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Trilogy Mixed-Use Development, Boston, MA
Halvorson Design Partnership
Trilogy is a mixed-use development which includes commercial space and private residences with amenities. A large deck over the parking garage was designed to provide private landscaped space for the residents. Pine and Swallow provided planting soil design and recommendations for drainage and plantings for this special design.
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(Drawing: Asian Culture Center)
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Asian Artplex Roof Garden, Citizen’s Park at Asian Culture Center, Guangju, South Korea
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Citizen’s Park at the Asian Culture Center is a new public landscape located at the site of historic uprisings that led to Korean Democracy. The entire 20+ acre park, designed with lush plantings, winding paths, and numerous open spaces, is a roof garden. Pine and Swallow developed planting profiles and strategies of creating corresponding planting soils. P&S utilized its international permit for importing soils to be able to carry out laboratory tests and develop appropriate soil blends with native soils.
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(Photo: Greenwich Academy)
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Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT
Brown Sardina
Greenwich Academy is a 450-student, K–12 school in Greenwich CT. A recent expansion project included a major landscaped greenroof and multiple courtyards at varying elevations integrating adjacent buildings with exterior spaces. Pine and Swallow provided soil profiles and specifications, as well as construction observation assistance.
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(Photo: Richard Burck Associates)
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Harvard Graduate Student Housing, Cambridge, MA
Richard Burck Associates
The Harvard Graduate Student Housing landscape forms a set of courtyards and plazas leading to a central grassed area with panoramic views of the Charles River. A grove of burr oaks and a curvilinear pre-cast wall backed by hornbeam trees create more intimate settings and sidewalks shaded by London planetrees establish a new streetscape along Western Avenue. Pine and Swallow assisted with plant selection designed soil mixes for the varied microclimates and plantings for this LEED® Silver rated project.
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(Photo: Esentai Park)
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Esentai Park, Almati, Kazakhstan
Brown Sardina
Esentai Park is a mixed used, world-class project with approximately 3 million square feet in downtown Almati, framed by a major mountain range. Pine and Swallow developed strategies for subsurface drainage and for creating planting soils for extensive landscaping within the site.
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Harvard Allston Streetscape, Allston, MA
Carol R. Johnson Associates
The new Harvard Allston campus is being designed to transform a large industrialized area into a modern sustainable landscape. Pine and Swallow is participating in the streetscape work as well and also several of the building landscapes. P&S provided preliminary designs for a sustainable stormwater management system and a corresponding program for subsoil investigation and testing, including characterization of subsurface drainage and infiltration capacities. P&S assisted with the design of a model rain garden, provided review of construction, and is monitoring performance in removal of targeted stormwater constituents.
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(Drawing: Halvorson Design Partnership)
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Sloan Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Halvorson Design Partnership
New construction at the Sloan School of Management extends from Memorial Drive to Main Street in Cambridge and will serve as an eastern gateway to the MIT campus. Pine and Swallow provided soil design for a variety of planting conditions, including significant rooftop areas requiring lightweight design. P&S also designed biotreatment planting beds for stormwater from new parking areas and from rooftop areas.
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(Graphic: Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp.)
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Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, New York
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
The 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park will run approximately 1.5 miles along the East River, with spectacular views to lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge. The park, with 6 piers and associated uplands, will include lawns, beaches, coves, restored habitats, playgrounds and landscaped areas as well as floating pathways, fishing piers, canals, paddling waters, and new wetland and stream systems. A major constructed landform with slopes up to 45 degrees, requiring various stabilization strategies, will run the length of the park to provide separation of the waterfront from nearby highways. Pine and Swallow is responsible for the design and specification of all planting soils and for soil drainage strategies on the project including high use and amenity lawns, play areas, major planting zones, new upland and coastal wetlands, and a constructed stream system which recycles stormwater for remediation.
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(Photo: Stephen Stimson Associates)
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The International Fund for Animal Welfare, Yarmouth MA
Stephen Stimson Associates
The International Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW, developed a brownfields site for its new headquarters. After site cleanup, native, drought tolerant plants were used for ecological restoration including connection to adjacent conservation areas. Vegetated swales and rain gardens were designed to provide biotreatment of stormwater and to increase infiltration. Pine and Swallow assisted with hydrologic and soil designs, created a soil management plan to optimize use of natural soil resources and provided construction observation services.
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Alumnae Valley under consturction
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Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
The Alumnae Valley project transformed an industrialized portion of the Wellesley College campus into both a stormwater treatment system and a visual focal area. A pond, wetland and stream system now treats runoff that previously discharged directly into Lake Waban. The treatment system, surrounded by new landforms and plantings, creates both a park and a visual amenity. Pine and Swallow assisted with liner technologies to ensure hydrologic function, and designed soil blends for wetland and transition zones as well as for varied upland planting environments and specified steep slope stabilization techniques.
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Tuxedo Reserve Development, Hudson Valley, NY
EDAW / AECOM
Strategically situated south of the historic community of Tuxedo Park, the 2,384-acre Tuxedo Reserve site was designed on conservation development principles and re-creates the sense of traditional towns and villages found in the Hudson Valley. The development includes more than a thousand residential units, 72,500 square feet of retail/restaurants/services, and a network of village greens and neighborhood parks. Pine and Swallow carried out a site soils investigation to establish a soil resource management system and designed soil profiles including extensive rain gardens for stormwater treatment.
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(Drawing: Stephen Stimson Associates)
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Harvard Allston Science Complex
Stephen Stimson Associates
The $1 billion Harvard Allston Science Complex is envisioned to be a premier center for science and is the first structure on the new Harvard Allston campus. The entire project is being developed as a sustainable site with a high level LEED rating. Pine and Swallow designed soils and assisted with design of a bioswale stormwater treatment system which runs through the four-building project and integrates landscapes spaces designed for varying micro-climate conditions.
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Vassar Street Streetscape, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Carol R. Johnson Associates
The Vassar Street project transformed a one mile section of an industrialized street into a major corridor, including walks, bikeways and significant streetscape plantings running through the campus of MIT. Pine and Swallow participated in the design and construction of street tree planting areas, reviewed existing geotechnical information, provided planting soil specifications, including for sand-based structural soil. P&S conducted infiltration tests to evaluate in-situ drainage characteristics and provided construction observation services. Street trees at the site have been successful and have demonstrated excellent root growth into the structural soil.
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Boston Central Artery, Boston, MA
The Boston Central Artery project, the Big Dig, removed an elevated highway that divided the city and created a new landscape corridor, transforming the entire city center. Pine and Swallow participated in general planning for soil resources and provided master soil specifications for planting soils and for sand-based structural soil systems. P&S also provided soil and drainage design for various individual park segments.
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Harvard Allston Streetscape, Allston, MA
Carol R. Johnson Associates
The new Harvard Allston campus is being designed to transform a large industrialized area into a modern sustainable landscape. Pine and Swallow is participating in the streetscape work as well and also several of the building landscapes. P&S provided preliminary designs for a sustainable stormwater management system and a corresponding program for subsoil investigation and testing, including characterization of subsurface drainage and infiltration capacities. P&S assisted with the design of a model rain garden, provided review of construction, and is monitoring performance in removal of targeted stormwater constituents.
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Cambridge Street Redevelopment, Cambridge, MA
Halvorson Design Partnership
Cambridge Street is a major entrance to downtown Boston was dramatically upgraded through a combination of efforts of the City and MassHighway Department. In addition to upgrading the traveled way, a median strip with gardens and extensive plantings was added and new street trees were planted. Pine and Swallow worked with City and State agencies to develop an acceptable structural soil system to support the street tree plantings and to specify planting soils for the median plantings.
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Central Wharf Plaza, Boston, MA
Reed Hilderbrand
Central Wharf Plaza creates a connection between Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway and Boston Harbor at the Aquarium. Twenty-six 12-inch oaks were planted in sand-based structural soil, designed by Pine and Swallow, to provide structural support for cobblestone paving and horticultural support for the plantings. A stormwater system, also designed by P&S collects rainwater and distributes it to the trees.
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Greensboro Center City Park, Greensboro NC
Halvorson Design Partnership
Center City Park created a civic focal landscape from a utilitarian area including parking lots. The design includes a fountain which serves to represent the seasonal stream beds in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, as well as a great lawn, a path system with plantings reflecting the regional plant palette, and a revitalized streetscape. Pine and Swallow provided soil design, including sand-based structural soil for the streetscape plantings and designed drainage strategies for the complex design.
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(Photo: Moshe Safdie and Associates)
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Federal Building, Washington, DC
Brown Sardina, Inc.
This project involved construction of new headquarters for a federal agency that required the highest level of security standards. The landscape for the site included multiple courtyards and landscapes on structure as well as new streetscapes. all integrated with the security systems. Pine and Swallow developed soil specifications for the various planting areas, including structural horticultural soils and low maintenance rooftop conditions. During construction P&S was responsible for reviewing submittals and for approvals of soil media.
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(Photo: Moshe Safdie and Associates)
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Reed Hilderbrand
The museum complex will include extensive gallery and presentation spaces, areas for outdoor concerts and public events, as well as sculpture gardens and walking trails. Outdoor public spaces will include promenades along the water’s edge with both formal and informal sculpture gardens. The remainder of the site, approximately 100 acres, is being developed as a public park, including trails and picnic grounds. Pine and Swallow was responsible for soil design and specifications for numerous planting conditions and for design of new pond amenity features and new wetland areas. Pine and Swallow was also responsible for analysis of stream bank conditions and development of strategies for stabilization during the extreme storm conditions at the site as well as restoration and rehabilitation of naturalized areas.
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Hudson River Park, New York, NY
Mathews Nielsen
The Hudson River Park extends along Manhattan’s West Side highway and waterfront from 59th Street to Chambers Street, a stretch of approximately five miles along the river encompassing 550 acres. The Park project includes a waterfront esplanade running its length providing views of the Hudson River, paralleled by four miles of tree-shaded lawns, gardens, tennis courts and other facilities for more active recreation. In addition, 13 old maritime piers are being reconstructed as public park spaces. Pine and Swallow was responsible for preparing a Master Soils Specification for the various individual park areas, including material descriptions, in-place and laboratory testing procedures and material placement operations. P&S was also responsible for developing strategies for construction on piers as well as varied conditions along the waterfront, and provided submittal review.
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Carnegie Mellon Gates Computer Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
The landscape for the new Gates Computer Center transforms what was a “back door” to the campus into part of the Carnegie Mellon central campus landscape, and creates pedestrian connections through the site, in turn creating the potential for future campus expansion. Pine and Swallow designed planting media for a range of landscape conditions, including rooftop, meadow plantings, tree groves, and numerous steep slope conditions. P&S also assisted with both subsurface ground water controls and stormwater runoff design.
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Bethel Woods Center For the Arts, Bethel, NY
Olin Partnership
The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts includes a 15,000 seat outdoor performance venue, smaller performance sites, a museum and a system of trails and protected open spaces at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock festival. Pine and Swallow created a soil resource management plan as part of the sustainable development of the site and designed soil mixes for a wide range of planting conditions, including wetlands and a seating lawn at the pavilion.
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St. Albans School, Washington, DC
Richard Burck Associates
The Cornerstone Memorial Garden is located on the historic grounds of the National Cathedral Close on the St. Albans campus in Washington, DC. The landscape design included landscaped terraces, gravel pathways, stone walls and plantings on slopes. Pine and Swallow specified the soil design for the garden plantings and also consulted on the restoration of a disturbed hillside due to erosion in the area of a new campus building project. For a new campus athletic field, P&S designed underdrainage and specified modifications to existing soils to ensure robust turf for field usage.
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(Drawing: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates)
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Don River Park, Toronto, Canada
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Don River Park is a focal point for a major downtown Toronto re-development and includes construction of new wetland systems, flood protection levees, a wet meadow, and a large new area with prairie grass. Pine and Swallow developed strategies to treat both on- and off-site stormwater, treatment wetlands, and rain gardens. P&S also worked with the city to develop a structural soil system for major street tree plantings.
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Deer Island, Boston Harbor, MA
Carol R. Johnson and Associates
As part of the Deer Island Treatment Plant located in Boston Harbor, a massive landform was constructed to visually isolate the facility from the residential community and accommodate the recreational public as part of the National Park system. Since new soil materials required costly barge transportation to the island, reuse of all available on-island earth materials and minimizing off-island borrow was essential. Challenges included slope stabilization and creating growing media from essentially impermeable native glacial till soils. Pine and Swallow designed soil mixes totaling more than 100,000 cubic yards to support extensive plantings and create a low maintenance naturalized setting and recommended appropriate plantings to stabilize slopes, add aesthetic value, and tolerate harsh New England coastline weather.
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Illinois Science and Technology Center
Halvorson Design Partnership
The Illinois Science and Technology Park, developed to serve as a catalyst to transform Illinois from a scientific research hub to an economic engine for bioscience technologies, contains 2 million square feet of science, laboratory, office and conference space in a 22-acre campus-like environment. Landscaped parks, meadow grass areas and pedestrian paths traverse the site and have been designed with sustainable guidelines. Pine and Swallow developed soil blends for reuse of on-site clay soils and mitigation measures for areas with deep fills and a grass structural soil corridor for fire truck access.
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Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Robert Olson + Associates
Phillips Academy is one of the premier college preparation education institutions. When Phelps Stadium, the field where the school plays football, needed restoration, Pine and Swallow assisted with soil design, drainage analysis and construction observation.
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Hatch Shell Esplanade, Boston, MA
Finegold Alexander & Associates
The Esplanade in front of the Hatch Shell is the iconic image of a public lawn area. The lawn is used as seating for multiple concerts each year, but is especially known for the Boston Pops 4th of July concerts, when several hundred thousand people come to the area. During a restoration project of the Shell the lawn was utilized as a construction staging area, resulting in severe over-compaction and the introduction of foreign materials to the topsoil. Pine and Swallow developed strategies for restoration of the area, including soil amendments, drainage and turf grass blends, and provided construction observation.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Halvorson Design Partnership
Mount Auburn Cemetery contains thousands of shrubs, herbaceous plants, and trees (more than 600 species) on 175 acres of hills, dells, ponds, woodlands and clearings. Pine and Swallow worked both with Halvorson Design Partnership and directly for the cemetery on various horticultural and drainage issues to restore, maintain and enhance this extraordinary and historic landscape.
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(Photo: Bethel Woods Center for the Arts)
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Bethel Woods Center For the Arts
Olin Partnership
The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts includes a 15,000 seat outdoor performance venue, smaller performance sites, a museum and a system of trails and protected open spaces at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock festival. A particular challenge was to create a seating lawn at the new pavilion, given the naturally clayey on-site soils. Pine and Swallow designed a two-layered, sand-based soil design to withstand the high use, but which drains rapidly and is suitable for seating.
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Battery Park City Ballfields, New York, NY
HOK
The Battery Park City ballfields were used as a staging area after the World Trade Towers collapse. Pine and Swallow developed a reconstruction strategy for the area with new drainage and soils to support an intensely used, natural grass playing surface.
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Copley Plaza, Boston, MA
Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Copley Plaza is one of the most visually and functionally important public areas in Boston. The plaza is an intensely used space, including a large lawn area, between the Boston Public Library and Trinity Church. Pine and Swallow worked with Boston Parks to analyze existing conditions and prepare plans and specifications for lawn improvements to better withstand the extremely high use.
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Arlington Sports Fields, Arlington, MA
Arlington Parks and Recreation Department
Pine and Swallow worked with the Town of Arlington Parks and Recreation Department to analyze conditions for 30 sports fields at 16 locations. The fields had been subjected to overuse and required extensive rehabilitation. Soil, drainage, and turf issues associated with each field were identified and existing and projected use patterns were analyzed. Pine and Swallow then made specific recommendations for reconstruction, rehabilitation, or improved maintenance for each field and prioritized improvements on a town-wide basis. P&S also developed formulas to compare the capital costs for soil and drainage improvements with increased maintenance costs if such improvements were not carried out. A town-wide maintenance program was then developed to ensure that the value of capital improvements to upgrade the fields would be retained.
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(Graphic: Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp.)
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Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, New York
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
The 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park will run approximately 1.5 miles along the East River. The park, with 6 piers and associated uplands, will include lawns, beaches, coves, restored habitats, playgrounds and landscaped areas as well as floating pathways, fishing piers, canals, paddling waters, and new wetland and stream systems. A major constructed landform with slopes up to 45 degrees, requiring various stabilization strategies, will run the length of the park to provide separation of the waterfront from nearby highways. Pine and Swallow is responsible for the design and specification of all planting soils and for soil drainage strategies on the project including high use and amenity lawns, play areas, major planting zones, new upland and coastal wetlands, and a constructed stream system which recycles stormwater for remediation.
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Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, East Boston, MA
Mathews Nielsen
Belle Isle Marsh Reservation preserves 152 acres of Boston's last remaining salt marsh. The Reservation exemplifies the type of wetlands that once lined the Massachusetts Bay shore and its protected waters are nurseries to fish and shellfish and are critical habitat to many saltmarsh plants and wildlife rare to the metropolitan area. For this project, Pine & Swallow inventoried soil resources and developed drainage schemes and planting soil profiles. P&S also analyzed tidal flux and prepared specifications for marsh planting soils and planting techniques.
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Alumnae Valley under consturction
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Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
The Alumnae Valley project transformed an industrialized portion of the Wellesley College campus into both a stormwater treatment system and a visual focal area. A pond, wetland and stream system now treats runoff that previously discharged directly into Lake Waban. The treatment system, surrounded by new landforms and plantings, creates both a park and a visual amenity. Pine and Swallow assisted with liner technologies to ensure hydrologic function, and designed soil blends for wetland and transition zones as well as for varied upland planting environments and specified steep slope stabilization techniques.
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Mystic River Reservation, Medford, MA
Carol R. Johnson and Associates
Construction of the Reservation included approximately 200 acres of land along more than a mile of the Mystic River to provide active and passive recreational facilities where dredge spoils and random urban fill materials had been placed. Some areas were underlain by soft sediments and former marshlands. 250,000 cubic yards of soils were mixed to create planting mediums and specially chosen plant materials were utilized. Subsurface drainage and salt control systems were designed, settlement analyses were carried out and preload areas were designed and implemented.
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(Photo: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates)
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Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
The Boston Children’s Museum includes a public space which is a popular tourist destination along the waterfront of Fort Point Channel, adjacent to the city’s Harborwalk. A recent expansion project included enhancement of this space, including new planting areas to be constructed on essentially impervious and/or man-made materials and from entirely imported soil resources. Pine & Swallow reviewed geotechnical information, provided soil profile sketches and designed soil specifications for various conditions, locations and challenges including salt conditions and storm flooding of the area.
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Revere Beach, Revere, MA
Carol R. Johnson and Associates
Revere Beach is known as the oldest public beach in the United States. It is also one of the most heavily used. Pine and Swallow participated in the reclamation of the saline beach front park area as a part of Master Plan and Phase I development, including storm analysis, hydrogeologic investigation, soil and vegetation analysis, maintenance study, and preparation of soil and vegetation specifications.
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Ocean Spray World Headquarters, Lakeville, MA
Carol R. Johnson and Associates
The site of the new Ocean Spray Company headquarters was located adjacent to a 37-acre pond, but the pond was in the latter stages of eutrophication. Pine and Swallow provided hydrogeologic analysis of the pond, characterized the sediments and assisted with permitting for a dredging program to restore the pond while protecting and enhancing wetland values. Dredge spoils were reconditioned to create planting soils for the project.
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Bates College Pond, Lewiston, ME
Halvorson Design Partnership
When Bates College decided to expand its campus, a decision was made to use land around “the puddle,” a small pond behind the original quad. Unfortunately both stormwater and the campus boiler had discharged into the pond for years resulting in severe eutrophication. Pine and Swallow designed a reclamation program to remove nutrient-laden sediments from the pond bottom the pond and a stormwater treatment system using soils beneath a new circumferential path to cleanse the water before it entered the pond.
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Asian University for Women, Bangladesh
Brown Sardina
The Asian University for Women is a proposed new campus for approximately 2,500 women to be constructed in steep hills near Chittagong, Bangladesh. As part of the Master Plan development, Pine and Swallow has been responsible for analysis of slope stability, constructability of site, and strategies for earth moving and earth stabilization. When recent monsoon rains caused numerous landslides at the site, P&S carried out a site investigation to determine the causes and to evaluate the buildability of the site. P&S is responsible for strategies and specifications for providing planting soils to sustain extensive plantings on the site as well as providing environmentally appropriate conditions for plantings.
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Esentai Park, Almati, Kazakhstan
Brown Sardina
Esentai Park is a mixed used, world-class project with approximately 3 million square feet in downtown Almati, framed by a major mountain range. Pine and Swallow developed strategies for subsurface drainage and for creating planting soils for extensive landscaping within the site.
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Asian Artplex Roof Garden, Citizen’s Park at Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Citizen’s Park at the Asian Culture Center is a new public landscape located at the site of historic uprisings that led to Korean Democracy. The entire 20+ acre park, designed with lush plantings, winding paths, and numerous open spaces, is a roof garden. Pine and Swallow developed planting profiles and strategies of creating corresponding planting soils. P&S utilized its international permit for importing soils to be able to carry out laboratory tests and develop appropriate soil blends with native soils.
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(Drawing: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates)
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Don River Park, Toronto, Canada
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Don River Park is a focal point for a major downtown Toronto re-development and includes construction of new wetland systems, flood protection levees, a wet meadow, and a large new area with prairie grass. Pine and Swallow developed strategies to treat both on- and off-site stormwater, treatment wetlands, and rain gardens. P&S also worked with the city to develop a structural soil system for major street tree plantings.
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King Khalid Military City, Saudi Arabia
Brown & Root
King Khalid military City is a massive new city constructed in a desert area of Saudi Arabia. An entire landscape had to be created for this environment. Pine and Swallow carried out soil, water, and horticultural analyses for development of the city and provided specifications for a laboratory and landscape testing program, an on-site field station, and a plant nursery. P&S also provided analysis of artificial ground water conditions due to extensive proposed irrigation and design of a subsurface drainage control network.
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Abu Dhabi New Islands
Field Operations
New island communities are transforming the landscape of Abu Dhabi and creating high-end residential opportunities. Pine and Swallow carried out an environmental analysis of soil and water conditions for creating landscapes on newly constructed islands in Abu Dhabi. Systems to control and direct ground water movement were developed to create planting opportunities while minimizing the need for water.
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