Landscape Architect & Specifier News

MAR 2018

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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The project's time line begun in 1999, included significant renovation and reconfiguration of the pool and its building; demolition of the library and construction of a new facility on an adjacent site; and the closure of a block of city street to allow direct connection of the library to the pool and park complex. The playground project was the final phase of this 16-year effort. It was one of the first playgrounds funded by the San Francisco Playground Commission in the early 1900s. In the 1950s the 2-acre parcel was entirely covered in asphalt and chopped up into courts, preventing passage through the space. The recent renovation upgraded the playground to a modern state of the art park with better sightlines and adjacencies; a large increase in permeable Above:The 2-acre park, originally called the North Beach Playground, is at the junction of Columbus Avenue and Lombard Street in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, which has only one- fifth of the open space recommended for urban areas. March 2018 77 Joe DiMaggio Park Renovation Lizzy Hirsch, Landscape Architect, San Francisco Public Works City and County of San Francisco San Francisco's Joe DiMaggio Playground, originally called the North Beach Playground, is located in the northeast corner of the city, one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the U.S., having one fifth of the open space recommended for urban areas. The 2-acre park at the junction of Columbus Avenue and Lombard Street is part of a vital neighborhood community hub that includes the playground (tennis, basketball, softball, bocce and children's play area), a library branch, an indoor public pool and a recreation clubhouse.

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