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Houston Houston, Texas What’s Out There® Houston Houston, Texas Welcome to What’s Out There® Houston, organized ranged from Picturesque and Beaux-Arts styles to Modernist by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and Postmodernist. The Houston Transformation conference with support from national and local partners. and What’s Out There Weekend tours correspond with the th This guidebook provides details about more than 100 anniversary of the founding of the Houston Parks and Recreation Department, which today manages parks and 30 examples of Houston’s incredible legacy of open spaces comprising more than 37,800 acres. parks and public open spaces—sites featured in free, expert-led tours that complemented Leading This guidebook is a complement to TCLF’s much more with Landscape II: The Houston Transformation comprehensive What’s Out There Houston Guide, an conference, also organized by TCLF. interactive online platform that includes all of the enclosed essays plus many others, as well as overarching narratives, The story of zoning and planning in Houston is a fascinating maps, historic photographs, and biographical profiles. That Photo by Natalie Keeton, courtesy Lauren Griffith study, one that lies at the very center of the conference Guide, viewable at tclf.org/houstonguide, is one of a number and tours. It is a story characterized by political wrangling, of online compendia of urban landscapes, dovetailing with economic boom and bust cycles, hurricanes and flooding, TCLF’s Web-based What’s Out There, the nation’s most the influence of the automobile in infrastructure and housing comprehensive searchable database of historic designed development, public-private partnerships, and the presence landscapes. The database currently features more than 1,900 of the many bayous that traverse the city. Houston provokes sites, 10,000 images, and 900 designer profiles.What’s Out the question, “Can a city that has developed largely without a There is optimized for iPhones and similar handheld devices plan also be one that is leading with landscape?” and includes What’s Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all landscapes in the database within a 25-mile radius Although Houston was founded in 1837, its first of any given location. comprehensive plan was not developed until 1913 when The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) landscape architect Arthur Comey submitted a proposal On behalf of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, I appreciate TCLF provides the tools to see, understand and value landscape architecture and for the city’s development. Since then, designers such as your interest in What’s Out There Houston and I hope you George Kessler, Ralph Ellifrit, Philip Johnson, Ian McHarg, will enjoy experiencing the city’s unique and unparalleled its practitioners in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and Isamu Noguchi, and landscape architecture firms Hare & landscape legacy. their designers. Through its website, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF Hare, Sasaki Associates, SWA Group, Hanna/Olin, Clark broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to Condon, Design Workshop, and Eckbo, Royston & Williams Sincerely, help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. (and many others) have been attracted to Houston, the learn more at tclf.org nation’s fourth largest city, which now encompasses some 600 square miles. Designs for parks, college campuses, Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR civic and cultural institutions, suburbs, and cemeteries have PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION 2 The Cultural Landscape Foundation www.tclf.org 3 8 Aldine 8 69 WEST MOUNT KEITH WIESS PARK Jersey Village HOUSTON PARK Paradise Cemetery Blackhorn Lake Inwood Forest Melrose MELROSE PARK Golf And Golf Course TROTTER Country Club HIRSH ROAD PARK Sheldon Reservoir SHADY LANE PARK TIDWELL 290 PARK Summer St Summer St Opelousas St Winter St LAKE Brock Park Bingham St FOREST PARK Municipal Edward St Downtown Houston Holly St N. 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And LH) ➍ Sabine Promenade ⓯ Tranquillity Park •• Menil Collection Campus 45 Park & Golf CANYON Westwood Stadium 610 PARK Courses Country Club Reliand ➎ Glenwood Cemetery ⓰ CityCentre Houston •• University of St. Thomas Astrodome ➏ ⓱ •• + Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion Braeburn Gragg Park Bagby Park and Streetscape Rice University Country Club Six Flags Astroworld ➐ White Oak Bayou Greenway ⓲ Bethel Park •• Post Oak Boulevard STUART South Mail ➑ Allen Center ⓳ Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens •• Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park Golf Center GARDEN DOW PARK ➒ Antioch Park ⓴ Memorial Park •• The Woodlands Houston VILLAS PARK SUNNYSIDE Hills Golf MARIAN ➓ Christ Church Cathedral •• Houston Arboretum and Nature Center Course PARK Meadows PARK GRIMES ⓫ Discovery Green •• Rienzi House Museum TAYLOR www.tclf.org 5 Place SIMS Wildcat ANN PARK BAYOU LAW PARK Golf Club PARK WILSON MEMORIAL PARK CAMERIDGE VILLAGE PARK 90 SCHNUR PARK Gulf Palms Parks BEVERLY Missouri City HILLS PARK JONES 8 PARK Bayou 1005 Commerce Street, Houston 400 Texas Avenue, Houston Bayou Allen's Landing Park Sesquicentennial Park This 1.76-acre park on the south bank of Buffalo Bayou commemorates the founding Lying on both sides of Buffalo Bayou in the downtown Theater District, this four-acre of Houston in 1836. Lying at the confluence of Buffalo and White Oak Bayous, this linear park was developed in 1986 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding Landscape Style: location served as a natural turning basin for large boats navigating from Galveston and of Houston. Although the site was used as a farmers’ market from 1927 to 1958, it Landscape Style: Modernist the Gulf of Mexico. As shipping traffic to the nascent city increased, the bayou junction had over time become a fragmented, concrete-lined riverbank dotted with columnar Postmodernist was designated Houston’s official port in 1841. Wharves were established and the city’s supports for overhead bridges and interrupted by various flood-control mechanisms and Landscape Type: commercial center grew to encompass the area surrounding the port. In 1914, dredging of ramps that led to subterranean parking garages. Landscape Type: Public Park – Neighborhood Park Public Park the bayou resulted in the relocation of the turning basin four miles to the east, precipitating In 1985, the Rice Design Alliance organized a competition for the creation of a park. Of Waterfont Development Waterfront Development a slow evacuation of waterborne commerce from the downtown commercial district. the 119 entries, the winning submission came from Team Hou, consisting of architects Commemorative Landscape In 1966, the Chamber of Commerce sought to revitalize the area with the construction of Guy Hagstette, Robert Liner, and John Lemr and landscape architect Lauren Griffith. Designed By: Designed By: a waterfront park on a 4,000-square-foot parcel donated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The first phase, which was completed in 1989, included a multi-level entrance plaza, Team Hou SWA Group Dedicated a year later, the bi-level park comprised a semicircular lawn that abutted the stairway, fountain, and promenade on the east bank.
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