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Find it First in LASN! There are 116 advertisements or product releases in this issue where the picture or ad has never before been published, what LASN calls "World Premieres." Look for the World Premiere icon in the Product Focus section (pages 28-39) and in red text the Ad Index (pages 161-162, 165-166). Contact LASN for more information on how your new product can be in the World Premiere spotlight! (714) 979-LASN (5276) www.landscapeonline.com World Premiere On the cover: Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Landscape Architecture by Grant Associates, Bath, U.K., and Singapore Office See p. 50 Find 116 World Premieres in this Issue For Details See Page 10 World Premiere w w w . l a n d s c a p e o n l i n e . c o m THE INDUSTRY TRADE MAGAZINE FOR COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPE SPECIFIERS NA Volume 30 Number 03 March 2014 Volume 30 Number 03 10 Landscape Architect and Specifier News 40 64 50 74 94 84 f e a t u re s 40 Turtle Back Zoo's Prehistoric Park Playground In 2013 Essex County contracted with a team of landscape architects to design a custom playground facility with a prehistoric theme to enhance Turtle Back Zoo's education and outreach programs. — Landscape Architecture and Engineering by Suburban Consulting Engineers 50 Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Following an international design competition, a team led by the U.K. landscape architectural firm Grant Associates was appointed in 2006 by the National Parks Board of Singapore to master plan Bay South Garden, the first and largest of the three planned gardens at Gardens by the Bay. — Landscape Architecture by Grant Associates, Bath, U.K., and Singapore 64 North Carolina's Veterans' Park In 2008, the North Carolina Legislature approved funding for a veterans' park in Fayetteville (pop. 205,678). The city, situated on the Cape Fear River in the Sandhills of the western coastal plain, was deemed an appropriate site, as it's home to Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield. The legislation specified a "contemporary, unique, and bold" park, a "place for meaningful reflection and inspiration." — Landscape Architecture by Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. 74 Chicago's Mary Bartelme Park Mary Bartelme Park is a 2.3-acre urban green space that replaced an old infirmary in Chicago's West Loop. Five skewed square stainless steel arches form a memorable gateway at the northwest corner of the former brownfield site. Two large lawn berms offer ample space for community activities. — Landscape Architecture by Site Design Group, Ltd. 84 Dust Devil Park, Phoenix—Engaging La Familia Constructed on a $4.6 million budget for Phoenix, this park was once a fenced-off dirt lot full of weeds, trash, and asphalt remnants, with an unsightly open-earth irrigation channel paralleling the western boundary. Sharing two of its edges with the Villa de Paz Elementary School to the east and the Villa de Paz neighborhood to the south, Dust Devil Park has been transformed into a point of pride for the community. —J2 Engineering and Environmental Design, LLC 94 Elizabethtown Sports Park City planners in Elizabethtown, Ky., cultivated a vision for a regional sports facility that grew into a 158-acre complex with 12 baseball/softball fields, 12 soccer fields, extensive lighting and underground infrastructure, parking, pedestrian trails, and more than 20,000 square feet of bioswales that feed more than four acres of detention/filtration basins. — Landscape Architecture by Element Design 2-13.indd 10 2/28/14 5:14 PM