GARDEN SPRING 2017 CITINGS FOUNDED BY THE CHEROKEE GARDEN CLUB IN 1975 LOCATED IN THE KENAN RESEARCH CENTER AT THE ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER 1 DIRECTOR & EDITOR Table of Contents GARDEN CITINGS Staci L. Catron ASSOCIATE EDITORS 04 14 Louise S. Gunn THE PLAN NEW BOARD Jo Ann McCracken-Redding Jennie Oldfield FOR BUCKHEAD MEMBERS FOUNDING PRESIDENT PARK OVER 400 18 Anne Coppedge Carr (1917–2005) 06 EUGENE R. CHAIR THE ASHLEY MARTINI, Jane Robinson Whitaker WRIGHT LANDSCAPE ADVISORY BOARD MCINTYRE ARCHITECT Hilton Hines Ball C. Duncan Beard LECTURE Adelaide Ward Burton FEATURING 20 Mary Johnson Calhoun THE ASHLEY Carolyn Carr THOMAS WOLTZ J. Cannon Carr, Jr. WRIGHT Sharon Jones Cole 07 MCINTYRE Lane Beebe Courts Mary Wayne Dixon WORLDSHARE LECTURE Kinsey Appleby Harper MANAGEMENT FEATURING Susan L. Hitchcock John Howard SERVICES DOUG TALLAMY Ozzie Johnson Andrew D. Kohr 08 22 Molly Yellowlees Lanier Richard H. Lee IF NOT OLMSTED, GIFTS TO THE Missy Means Madden WHO DESIGNED ANNUAL FUND Audrey Hill McMenamy Tracy Gray Monk THE CALLANWOLDE 25 Carter Heyward Morris GARDENS? Caye Johnson Oglesby TRIBUTES Nancy Roberts Patterson 10 Mary McConnell Poe 28 Elizabeth King Prickett REDOUTÉ THE CHEROKEE Muriel Foster Schelke BOTANICAL PRINTS: Claire McCants Schwahn ROSE SOCIETY Alex Smith ACQUISITIONS IN AND SUPPORTING Spencer Tunnell II MEMORY OF Marsha Pirkle Webb THE ENDOWMENT Jane Robinson Whitaker RYAN GAINEY Zach Young FUND 12 NEWS FROM 30 THE GOIZUETA BOOK & GARDENS MANUSCRIPT DONATIONS 3 The Plan for Buckhead Park over GA400 By Jo Ann McCracken-Redding GARDEN CITINGS 1 Audrey Wachs, “Buckhead Park Over GA400 – New renderings revealed for ambitious, highway-capping THE PLAN FOR park in Atlanta,” The Architects Newspaper, September 7, 2016. IN URBAN BUCKHEAD PARK CENTERS OVER GA400 The CID chose Rogers Partners brought ecosystems back to life—restored By adopting the Woltz philosophy, Atlanta Architects+Urban Designers collaborating meadows, streams, woodlands, and ponds will be known less for traffic and more for the with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape in urban and rural settings, and cultivated beauty of its urban parks, where native plants Architects (NBW) to create a vision plan connections between sites and their complex are integrated with architecture and art in and design. In September 2016, this team regional environments. spaces where people love to be. WITH NO presented an astonishingly innovative solution to the CID—go up and over. Their NBW’s approach is influenced by Woltz’s design for the Buckhead Park Over GA400 experience growing up on a working farm ABOUT THOMAS WOLTZ stretches for a half mile and is constructed in Mount Airy, at the foot of the Blue Ridge As principal of NBW, a 45-person firm based above the eight-lane highway in the heart Mountains in North Carolina. He joined in Charlottesville, Virginia, and New York of the commercial district. NBW in 1997, originally working on the City, Woltz has infused narratives of the land SPACE ecological restoration of farmland. Now he into the places where people live, work, and The design features three areas: The is applying to urban settings much of what play, deepening the public’s enjoyment of the Commons, a green gathering place; The he learned from rural projects about soil, natural world and inspiring environmental Plaza, linking MARTA and multi-directional ecosystems, and the historical and cultural stewardship. pedestrian and bicycling routes, including the use of land. Path400 Greenway Trail; and The Gardens, Woltz was educated at the University LEFT FOR with native Georgia plants and an allée of With their design, Rogers Partners and NBW of Virginia in architecture, landscape high-canopied trees running the length of the wanted the Park Over GA400 to be integrated architecture, fine art, and architectural park from Lenox Road to Peachtree Road to into Atlanta’s natural landscape and reflect history. He holds master’s degrees in create shade and a wildlife habitat. The trees the biodiversity of the Appalachian foothills. Landscape Architecture and Architecture. planted on this upper level will be supported Woltz explains, “This approach is the After working in Venice and Paris, he by the train track structure below. opposite of decorating the outdoors with returned to the United States to launch his GREEN While Park Over GA400 is still in the plants. We’re selecting the most resilient career in landscape architecture. Today, 1 planning and development stage, the vision plants that are still iconic for this ecology.” Woltz serves on the Boards of Directors of is awe-inspiring with new possibilities for The Cultural Landscape Foundation and 1 fulfilling our yearning for green space. An article in The Architects Newspaper the University of Virginia School of describes how this philosophy is reflected Architecture Foundation. Thomas Woltz, principal at NBW, explains in the design: “The curving lawns, stepped SPACE, that the Park Over GA400 design “is seating, and sweeping overhead paths that In 2011, he was invested into the American connected to existing infrastructure and is will guide visitors over sunken lanes of traffic Society of Landscape Architects Council being built in found space, much like New are manifestations of the region’s ecology, tlanta is one of the fastest-growing of Fellows, among the highest honors in his York’s Hudson Yards”—a development on abstracted through form, material choices, metro areas in the country, and that’s profession, and in 2013 was named Design A the Far West Side of Manhattan, covering and horticulture, especially. The plaza’s due to a long list of good reasons to live and Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street 14 acres above a busy railway and industrial high canopies evoke the native savannah, work here, including trees, natural resources, Journal Magazine. Fast Company Magazine site filled with train cars, tracks, and tunnels. while upland ecology is represented in the WOLTZ and climate. recently named Woltz one of the most NBW is designing the public square and park’s commons, which is scaled to host creative people in business for 2017. His firm’s gardens opening in 2018. large events. The gardens off Peachtree Road But one of our growing pains, made worse work has been recognized with more than buffer visitors from that busy, car-oriented by our car culture, is traffic. This created 90 national and international awards and These designs for urban parks are thoroughfare.”1 a challenge for the Buckhead Community has been published widely. representative of NBW’s award-winning Improvement District (CID) leadership when landscape architecture widely celebrated for Describing his vision for contemporary park CREATES they wanted to plan additional open space Presently, Woltz and NBW are entrusted combining sheer beauty with ecologically design, Woltz adds, “As a society, we do a with places for public gathering, along with with the design of nine public parks across regenerative design. NBW team members pretty good job of creating urban parks as safe, beautiful routes for pedestrians and the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. bring to their collaborative process varied destinations, but it’s important to see those cyclists. With high-density development and These projects include Memorial Park in backgrounds in landscape architecture, destinations as connected to our daily lives a tight network of roads and highways flowing Houston; Hudson Yards in New York City; architecture, anthropology, biology, via the streetscape, public transportation, into and out of the central artery, Peachtree NoMA Green in Washington, D.C.; Devonian economics, ecology, zoology, horticulture, the systems of storm-water management. IT. Road, how would this be possible? Botanic Garden in Alberta, Canada; and art, art history, and architectural history. It’s about seeing [everything] as one giant Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm’s innovative design methods have complex system.” 1 4 5 Ashley Wright McIntyre Lecture By Staci L. Catron, Cherokee Garden Library Director GAGARDENRDEN CITINGS THE ASHLEY WRIGHT WORLDSHARE MANAGEMENT MCINTYRE LECTURE SERVICES: NEW INTEGRATED FEATURING THOMAS WOLTZ LIBRARY SYSTEM These designs for urban parks are Terminus has a new look! The Cherokee Garden Library of the Kenan Research Center is MORE WAYS TO EXPLORE THE Landscape representative of NBW’s award-winning pleased to announce the migration of its online public access catalog to a new system, OCLC RESOURCES OF OUR LIBRARY ... architect landscape architecture, noted for combining WorldCat Discovery. This change is part of a larger switch for the Kenan Research Center to AND THE WORLD’S LIBRARIES sheer beauty with ecologically regenerative using the OCLC WorldShare system, which also includes cataloging, acquisitions, circulation, Thomas Woltz design. The firm’s innovative design methods and analytics modules. The library has used OCLC WorldCat for cataloging for a number WorldCat Discovery helps users easily find have brought ecosystems back to life — of years, and this move will allow for more integrated technical services as well as a more more than two billion electronic, digital, and discusses restored meadows, streams, woodlands, powerful public catalog. physical resources from local and worldwide and ponds in urban and rural settings, and libraries with a single search of WorldCat sustainable cultivated connections between sites and Now a Terminus search will not only access the Kenan Research Center’s holdings, but also and a central index that represents more their complex regional environments. find holdings around the Southeast, the United States, and the world beyond. than 2,400 e-content collections. design. NBW’s approach is influenced by Woltz’s Thursday, October 12, 2017 Allows users to find information through experience growing on a working farm in a single search. Users can search all formats 7:00pm Mount Airy, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Atlanta History Center Find more of library resources through a single search Mountains in North Carolina.