Landscape Architect & Specifier News

APR 2014

LASN is a photographically oriented, professional journal featuring topics of concern and state-of-the-art projects designed or influenced by registered Landscape Architects.

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April 2014 49 The historic Berlinsky Community House has been preserved and restored to host weddings and special functions. These functions allow guests to spill outside and enjoy a large patio space on the east side of the venue, or on the Wedding Lawn on the west side. The patio and Wedding lawn include specialty lighting to highlights trees and garden architecture. The performance stage and fishing pier at the lake edge are also areas that experience activity after the sun goes down. The lighting throughout the park serves a functional need that stretches out the usable hours of the park, but also highlights interesting focal elements in the night landscape. Specialty lighting is used to create different moods throughout the 25 acres. Whether its tree uplighting or DMX controlled LED color-changing light columns, different programmed areas in the park come to life at night through specialty lighting. The new park strengthens the relationship of Lake Toho to the downtown, and provides a variety of community engagement opportunities. The northern half of the park is designed to reinforce the garden-like character of the park, respond to a significant live oak canopy and several important civic monuments and community buildings. The southern half accommodates large community events, including an enhanced marina/restaurant complex, which will become the focus of the fishing tournaments that Kissimmee is known for. Above the redesigned memorial plaza and landscape includes the Bataan-Corregidor tribute to Courage memorial dedicated to the Americans and Filipinos who fought the Japanese in the Philippines, and the 60,000–80,000 prisoners of war forced to march 80 miles from Bataan to an internment camp. the statue by sandra storm depicts an American and Filipino soldier supporting each other on that march, and a Filipino woman offering a cup of water. selux saturn 70-watt t6 metal halide cutoffs, and existing uplights illuminate the flags and the stone monument. 44-51.indd 49 3/25/14 4:53 PM

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