LOVE PARK | 2010

While formulating an RFP response to the city’s call for a redesign of Philadelphia’s often controversial and much maligned Love Park, the question was asked – what is the fundamental issue with the park’s current design which hampers its success as a public space? It was determined that, as a space-making methodology, the large carved spaces created by the planters and terracing were both severing connectivity with the city and creating alienating spaces within the park itself. The proposal looks to create territories rather than spaces within the park while maintaining its original relationship to City Hall and the Art Museum. New connective programs situated along the most trafficked edges of the park to activate it’s edges during the day and weekends, while the new arcing fountain replaces the park’s classical fountain to reinforce the parkway’s axis rather than punctuate it.

This project has been designed in collaboration with EwingCole.