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Fall 2024 | Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners
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As an integrated studio of planners, urban designers and landscape architects, we are fascinated by the many lives a project lives between concept and construction. Below is a look at a few current projects at different stages of this lifecycle. | |
PLANNING STAGE: LONG-TERM VISIONS | |
Hart Island Master Plan
NYC Parks | New York, NY
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Existing conditions on Hart Island. | |
Starr Whitehouse is leading a master plan for NYC Parks to open Hart Island's cemetery and open spaces to public visitation. A storied landscape in Long Island Sound, Hart Island has been a training ground for Union Army soldiers of color, a missile launch facility, a penitentiary, and in recent times, a burial ground for victims of AIDS and COVID. Developed through workshops with city officials and with family and loved ones of those buried on the island, the plan will orchestrate ecology, resilience, operations and visitor experience — balancing ongoing cemetery use with structured gravesite visits and interpretive tours for the public. | |
North Point Development Framework
City of Alpharetta | Alpharetta, GA
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The City of Alpharetta, GA wants to transform a 1980s-era shopping mall into a vibrant and walkable urban district. Unearthing and interpreting historic streams as the "lifeblood" of the new district, Starr Whitehouse will create a framework of trails, climate strategies and building typologies to guide investment for community redevelopment. Shown here, a "boulevard" street typology enhances the ground plane with open space, multimodal transportation and pedestrian-friendly facades. | |
Kansas City Brush Creek Corridor
Plaza District Council | Kansas City, MO
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Laura Starr is going back to her roots in Kansas City! With a passion for bringing public and private interests together around open space design, Laura is advising local leaders on leveraging infrastructure funding to transform Brush Creek into a verdant civic spine. | |
DESIGN PHASE: MATERIALS AND EXPERIENCE | |
Packer Garden
The Packer Collegiate Institute | Brooklyn, NY
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Starr Whitehouse is working with the Packer Collegiate Institute to design a vibrant outdoor space for this Pre-K through 12 campus. A place for events, gathering and play, the new garden will provide a suite of social and ecological benefits for the Packer community. Rendering by Nightnurse Images. | |
Destination: Greenways! Brooklyn Phases
NYC Parks | Brooklyn, NY
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Starr Whitehouse is designing the first three Brooklyn sections of NYC Parks' Destination: Greenways! Reconstructing one mile of the Leif Ericson Greenway and two miles of the Shore Promenade Greenway north of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the design connects parks, improves wayfinding and safety, renovates seven intersections and improves seating, shade and recreation along the spectacular Harbor Esplanade. | |
On the windswept shore of Lake Ontario, a beloved regional park is threatened by extreme weather and rising lake levels. Working with State Parks, Starr Whitehouse is developing a design to stabilize the shoreline, support local ecology and celebrate this valuable public waterfront on the Great Lakes. | |
CONSTRUCTION & OCCUPANCY: IDEAS THAT GET BUILT | |
The Halletts Point Esplanade is coming to life! This rugged new waterfront destination on the Astoria shoreline creates transformative open space conditions for the public and over 1,000 new apartments. Working within the strict sustainability guidelines of The Durst Organization and the detailed waterfront design regulations of the NYC Planning Commission, the project will create 2.5 acres of respite in a dense urban environment. | |
In the Rockaways, a 35-acre nature preserve connects a dense residential neighborhood to the Atlantic shore. Arverne East reimagines the traditional nature preserve as a place for “urban ecology" — serving human, plant and animal communities alike. Well-lit paths provide access to the shore while more agile trails meander through protected ecologies, circumnavigating sensitive plant communities. Preserving and restoring coastal ecology, Arverne East supports biodiversity while offering equitable access to nature. | |
Starr Whitehouse Projects Win 2 Honor Awards and 2 Merit Awards from ASLA-NY in 2024 | |
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Riverside Park | Roswell, GA
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Don White Memorial Park | Roswell, GA
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Public Square Park Restoration | Hudson, NY
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Wolfe's Pond Park Playground Reconstruction | Staten Island, NY
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Climate Strong Communities Phase 2 | Five Boroughs, NY
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EDC Citywide Greenway Plan | Five Boroughs, NY
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