Lakeshore East: a Place to Stroll, Linger, and Play

Case Study: The Office of James Burnett

The Park at LAKESHORE EAST: A PLACE TO STROLL, LINGER, AND PLAY

As one of the emerging landscape architects of our time,

Jim Burnett, FASLA, has a strong passion for creating meaningful landscapes that are active, creative, and have a timeless sensibility to them. Whether it’s a corporate headquarters, a hospital, or an urban park, The

Office of James Burnett (OJB) strives to create environments that people use and enjoy on a daily basis. Case Study: The Office of James Burnett

Since the firm’s founding in Houston in 1989, and the 2003 opening of a second office in Solana Beach, CA, OJB has garnered more than 50 state and national awards for projects consistently cited for design excellence. The firm’s landscapes have a strong practicality to them and often relate to the rhythm of the architecture while weaving in unforgettable sensory experiences with a creative and unique plant palette. This dialogue enables OJB to create environments that are stimulating and fresh no matter how many times you visit or what time of the year.

“We’re lucky that our clients believe in the value of quality design,” says OJB’s Principal and Landscape Architect Kyle Fiddelke, ASLA. “We are brought on at the very beginning of the project to generate ideas with the architect on how the landscape and the building will interface. Having a strong, seamless dialogue between the two disciplines creates so much value for the project.”

Connecting to the Outdoors

Fiddelke joined OJB in 1997, when the firm worked primarily on large healthcare projects. Designing restorative gardens was meaningful work because of the physical and mental healing effects on patients who utilized the spaces. As the years passed by, the firm’s work expanded into other areas, including academic, urban design and planning, parks and gardens, office, and residential—with an ever-present passion for high-quality design while maintaining the positive effects learned in healthcare design.

The Park at Lakeshore East, located in Chicago where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan, was one of OJB’s first notable projects built outside of Houston. The property had taken on several identities The six-acre Park at Lakeshore East functions as the neighborhood’s focus, connecting over time, including an Illinois Central railroad freight yard and terminus, the surrounding hi-rises and commercial and retail spaces encompassing the broader, and, more recently, a par-three, nine-hole golf course. OJB got involved 28-acre, mixed-use project. on the project through its existing relationship with the internationally recognized, Chicago-based design firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill function as the neighborhood’s heart. This park connected the master LLP (SOM). The project’s developer had hired SOM to develop a plan’s varied components, including hi-rises for 4,950 residences, 2.2 master plan for the 28-acre, mixed-use project, which included a million gross square feet of commercial space, 1,500 hotel rooms, park as the focal point of the development. and 770,000 square feet of retail space. OJB’s task was to examine the master plan and program a high-end, residential open space. “We A $4 billion plan was set in motion to create a high-density residential didn’t think this project was going to become a reality as swiftly as it community in the heart of downtown with a six-acre park that would did, but the developers wanted to move as quickly as possible, and we were retained to take the park to the next stages of design and construction,” says Fiddelke. “We’re lucky that our clients want us right when they hire the architect. …Having a strong, seamless dialogue The park’s design and installation occurred early in the development between the two disciplines creates so much value for process to entice potential homeowners and businesses to the area. the project.” “Chicago places a high value on green spaces, so the park had to be the first thing built before the City would issue a certificate of occupancy of – Kyle Fiddelke, ASLA, Principal and Landscape Architect, any of the Lakeshore East buildings,” says OJB Vice President Nathan The Office of James Burnett Elliott, ASLA, LEED. “And because of the park’s prominence, we had a wonderful opportunity to set the tone for the project.” Case Study: The Office of James Burnett

The goal was to create a front yard for the development rich with materials and program, so the residents saw the space as an extension of their homes. They used Vectorworks® Landmark software from start to finish in the design process to create a powerful and intriguing design.

Today, hidden among the towering skyscrapers, The Park at Lakeshore East contains hundreds of trees and more than 100 different varieties of perennials, grasses, and flowers. A great lawn stretches from one end of the park to the other, offering recreational opportunities and a place to hold farmers’ markets and festivals on the weekends. Arching walkways intersect the park, creating rooms for botanical gardens, sparkling water features, a children’s playground, and even a dog park. The resulting experience is just as dazzling to the senses as it is to the eyes.

“Interestingly enough, developers thought the hi-rise units facing the lake would be the most valuable and sell the fastest, but the reverse happened once prospective buyers saw the park,” Elliott adds. “The park-facing units sold out first, forcing a swift change in marketing and Designers began the creative process by hand sketching their ideas on paper before pricing strategies to bring the development to full occupancy. That was exploring those ideas in Vectorworks software. great to see.” “We’ve won a lot of awards, but our greatest satisfaction is in seeing people use the spaces we’ve designed,” comments Fiddelke. Award-Winning Design Enhances a Community This sentiment is felt throughout both OJB offices, which can be characterized as energetic environments where everyone wears Prospective buyers weren’t the only people wowed by the park. In fact, multiple hats. “We learn together and everyone chips in,” says Elliott. the project has received numerous awards since its 2005 dedication: “No one is pigeon-holed, and staff members bring a nice mix of cultural and educational backgrounds to the table, ensuring the • 2008 American Architecture Awards - The Chicago Athenaeum ongoing vitality of our work.” Museum of Architecture and Design • 2008 Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Landscape Award for Specialized Gardens “The Vectorworks program works perfectly for me. • 2006’s Best New Park - Chicago Magazine • Best New Open Space award - Friends of Downtown I find it has more graphical capabilities than competing • Best of the Best 2005 award - Midwest Construction magazine programs, and it allows me to generate illustrative site • 2005 American Society of Landscape Architect Award plans quickly and easily.”

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HARDSCAPE LEGEND PLANT LIST TREE LIST GENERAL NOTES: SYMBOL COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME SPECIFICATIONS 1. CONCRETE UNIT PAVER A 6” X 12” PAVER 60% LIMESTONE COLOR, 14. ARCHITECTURAL PRECAST BENCH. SYMBOL SPECIFICATIONS 1.H CONTRACTOR a r b SHALLo r BE FAMILIARP a rWITH k ALL EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS AND UNDERGROUND UTILITIES, PIPES, 40% CREAM COLOR, HERRINGBONE PATTERN. A. 18”X24” PRECAST BENCH, CREAM COLOR. BERMUDA SOD CYNADON DACTYLON SOLID SOD A AND STRUCTURES. CONTRACTOR SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR BODILY INJURY AND/OR ANY COST B. 18”X24” PRECAST BENCH WITH TEAK BACK, CREAM COLOR. 15 GAL. CANOPY TREE, 1 1/2" CAL., 8' HEIGHT, 3' SPREAD INCURREDC h DUE i c a TO g DAMAGEo , I l l i nOF o OWNER'S i s PROPERTY OR SAID UTILITIES. CONTRACTOR SHALL HAND DIG of customized shapes the firm set up within the software that gives 2. CONCRETE UNIT PAVER B 6” X 12” PAVER 100% BLACK AND WHITE C. 36”X24” PRECAST BENCH WITH PRECAST BACK AND TEAK SEATS, FOOTINGS , TREE WELLS, PLANTING BEDS , ETC. AS REQUIRED. CONTRACTOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING MARBLE COLOR, QUARTEX FINISH, RE DETAIL FOR PATTERN. CREAM COLOR. B UTILITY COMPANIES PRIOR TO ANY EXCAVATION. 30 GALLON CANOPY TREE, 2" CAL., 10' HEIGHT, 4' SPREAD T h e O f f i c e o f J a m e s B u r n e t t 3. CONCRETE UNIT PAVER C 6” X 12” PAVER 50% CHARCOAL COLOR 15. COLORED CONCRETE CURB, DARK GRAY COLOR. ORNAMENTAL PLANTING 2. LOCATES AND i t e VERIFYD e s i g nCONDITION G r o u p OF UTILITIES PRIOR TO ANY EXCAVATION. EXTREME CARE SHALL BE C 12 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 1 STANDARD FINISH, 50% CHARCOAL COLOR, AGGREGATE FINISH, 65 GALLON CANOPY TREE, 3"-3 1/2" CAL., 12'-14' HEIGHT, 6' SPREAD EXERCISED IN EXCAVATION AND WORKING NEAR EXISTING UTILITIES. RE DETAIL FOR PATTERN. 16. 4' HIGH ALUMINUM FENCE. BLUE FESCUE FESTUCA CINEREA REFER TO CIVIL DRAWING FOR GENERAL REFERENCE. 1 " =30' - 0" 17. 4' HIGH ALUMINUM GATE. D 4. ARCHITECTURAL PRECAST STEPS, CREAM COLOR. OLEANDER NERIUM OLEANDER 100 GALLON CANOPY TREE, 4 1/2" -5" CAL., 16'-18' HEIGHT, 8' SPREAD 3. ANY CONFLICTING INFORMATION SHALL BE BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT OR THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT SHALL ASSUME THAT THE CONTRACTOR HAS INCORPORATED THE SPECIFIED ITEM. 18. 3” RUBBERIZE PLAY SAFETY, ALTERNATING COLORS AS SHOWN. EQUISETUM HYEMALE (SEPARATE ALL HORSETAIL W/ ROOT

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SOUTH 6. CONTRACTOR SHALL NOTIFY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 48 HOURS PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF WORK TO 10. WATER FEATURE: CHEMICALLY TREATED FOUNTAIN WITH COORDINATE PROJECT INSPECTION SCHEDULES. CONTRACTOR SHALL FURNISH ALL LABOR, MATERIALS, PURPLE FOUNTAIN GRASS PENNISETUM SETACEUM 'RUBRUM' 12”X12” BASALT BOLDERS ENTIRE BASIN 24. CAST IRON DRAIN GRATE - A EQUIPMENT, AND SERVICES NECESSARY TO PROVIDE ALL WORK. WORK TO BE COMPLETE IN PLACE AS SPECIFIED. because we want plans that are easy to understand,” he adds. A. CAST IRON DRAIN GRATE UNDER GRAVEL SURFACING - B MISCANTHUS MISCANTHUS SINENSIS 'MORNING LIGHT' 11. DECOMPOSED GRANITE GRAVEL, VERDE STONE 00SIZE AND 0 SIZE 7. CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING GRADES ON ALL PROPOSED CONCRETE. CONTRACTOR MIXED WITH SOIL CEMENT 25. TASH RECEPTACLE BLUE POINT JUNIPER JUNIPERUS CHINENSIS 'BLUE POINT' RESPONSIBLE FOR POSITIVE DRAINAGE 26. LIGHT FIXTURE - A 12. UNDULATING ARCHITECTURAL PRECAST CONRETE SEAT WALL WITH PYGMY BARBERRY BERBERIS THUNBERGII 'CRIMSON' 8. ALL MATERIALS SHALL BE OF STANDARD, APPROVED AND FIRST GRADE QUALITY AND SHALL BE IN PRIME 6” WIDE LIGHT BAND INORPORATED INTO SEAT DEVELOPMENT 27. LIGHT FIXTURE - B EUONYMUS EUONYMUS FORTUNEI 'EMERALD N GOLD' CONDITION WHEN INSTALLED AND ACCEPTED. ANY COMMERCIALLY PROCESSED OR PACKAGED MATERIAL SHALL BE DELIVERED TO THE SITE IN THE ORIGINAL UNOPENED PACKAGING BEARING THE MANUFACTURER'S CONSTRUCTION 13. 6” WIDE LIGHT BAND INORPORATED INTO PAVING. 28. TREE UPLIGHT SET IN GRAVEL GUARANTEED ANALYSIS. FOR 29. ALUMINUM FRAME BENCH WITH WOOD SEATING AND BACK SLATS DESIGN 12/21/01 “The Vectorworks program works perfectly for me. I find it has more DRAWN BY: TC NOT SHEET NUMBER CHECKED BY: CT T H E O F F I C E LAKESHORE EAST DEVELOPMENT APPROVED BY: CT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE O F 8 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE SUITE 1007 L1.01 DATE: 12/21/01 J A M E S B U R N CHICAGO ILLINOIS 60603 . 3310 OVERALL PAVEMENT PLAN A. E P S T E I N AND S O N S I N T E R N A T I O N A L, INC. LAKESHORE EAST LLC SCALE: 1/16"=1'-0" TEL 312.855.0186 FAX 312.855.0187 E T T W W W . S I T E - D E S I G N . C O M LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 600 WEST FULTON STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60661-1199 CHICAGO LOS ANGELES WARSAW TEL AVIV I S S U A N C E S / R E V I S I O N S PLANNING T. 312-454-9100 F. 312-559-1217 www.epstein-isi.com SDG PROJECT NO. 5563 PLOTTED: 12/21/01 graphical capabilities than competing programs, and it allows me to 3 3 1 3 D ' A M I C O A V E N U E H O U S T O N , T E X A S 7 7 0 1 9 The embedded plant database within Vectorworks Landmark software allows designers to generate illustrative site plans quickly and easily.” apply different plant materials to their site designs. For The Park at Lakeshore East, the firm set its own schedule and OJB Gets Technical deadlines and created all project drawings using the software. It documented the entire park in the Vectorworks Landmark program When Kyle Fiddelke joined OJB in 1997, the firm was a studio of all the way to construction documents before turning them over for five people who worked out of a small office above a Houston final documentation and administration by a local team in Chicago. restaurant. The space may have lacked frills and inspiration, but that “Our role was to establish the design intent, so the Vectorworks didn’t stop the team from impressing clients with their designs. At technology worked perfectly. It did exactly what we needed it to do.” the time, OJB’s graphical toolkit relied exclusively on hand drawings, but employees would soon leap into applying a new workflow based Senior Associate Ryan Harrison, ASLA, confirms Fiddelke’s on Vectorworks Landmark software to create and document their assessment, drawing attention to two tools, in particular, that speed memorable landscapes. his workflow. The first is the Select Similar tool, which lets him identify similar object types in one simple click, regardless of layer or class. Today, the firm’s landscape architects and designers use the program The shortcut is particularly useful for master plans and identifying tree to help them through the process of making their visions a reality. counts, and avoids an otherwise laborious shift/click process. Case Study: The Office of James Burnett

Clean, crisp graphics are a hallmark of the Office of James Burnett’s site plans.

Harrison also enjoys the ability to create and measure a new polygon Acknowledgements based on the inner boundary of existing geometry. He does this using the program’s 2D Polygon tool and the Inner Boundary (i.e., “paint Profiled firm: bucket”) mode. Harrison uses the tool regularly because he can get The Office of James Burnett the geometry or square footage of an area immediately without having 550 Lomas Santa Fe, Suite A Solana Beach, CA 92075 to trace it for the purpose of material takeoffs. Phone: 858-793-6970 Fax: 858-793-6905 Such built-in graphics techniques are a timesaver for the OJB team. “The speed at which we can produce scalable drawings and rendered 3313 D’Amico Avenue plans of a landscape is invaluable,” Harrison says. “I also appreciate Houston, TX 77019 Phone: 713-529-9919 being able to go from illustrative schematics to construction Fax: 713-529-9955 documents—all in one program—and I’m thrilled my concepts do not look like construction documents.” www.ojb.com [email protected]

Images: Sketches and drawings courtesy of Office of James Burnett Photos courtesy of James Steinkamp, Steinkamp Photography

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