Roundhouse Park at Station Lands
An urban park design precedent by Dialog, demonstrating how low concrete planters and integrated timber benches create human-scaled public spaces framed by high-rise towers.
- What we like about this project
- Diagonal path geometry breaks the rigid orthogonal grid of the surrounding towers.
Materials
- concrete
- timber
- glass
- steel
- planting
Visual identifiers
- concrete-planters
- integrated-wood-benches
- landscaped-park
- high-rise-towers
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- rational
Visual tags
- public-realm
- urban-park
- hardscape
- mixed-use
- contemporary-landscape
- Geometry
- An orthogonal urban park foreground with diagonal concrete planter walls and timber benches opens toward tall commercial and residential high-rise towers in the background.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall on the left tower; balconies and punched windows on the residential tower to the right.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite frames for high-rises; cast-in-place concrete for park landscape walls.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian-scaled park paths and seating contrasted against large multistory commercial and residential towers.
- Lighting
- Soft twilight or late afternoon overcast light casting gentle shadows across the hardscape and highlighting the tower facades.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and structured public openness nestled within a dense commercial core.
- Environmental context
- Urban high-density district featuring modern commercial glass towers and mixed-use residential blocks surrounding an open public park.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from intimate landscaped seating areas in the foreground up and across the open green park toward the towering vertical facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal garden beds intersect the rectilinear plaza geometry, leading views toward the vertical curtain wall grids.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban landscape design
- Program
- Urban public park and mixed-use precinct
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- concrete, timber, glass, steel, planting
- Visual identifiers
- concrete-planters, integrated-wood-benches, landscaped-park, high-rise-towers
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, rational
- Visual tags
- public-realm, urban-park, hardscape, mixed-use, contemporary-landscape
- Geometry
- An orthogonal urban park foreground with diagonal concrete planter walls and timber benches opens toward tall commercial and residential high-rise towers in the background.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall on the left tower; balconies and punched windows on the residential tower to the right.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite frames for high-rises; cast-in-place concrete for park landscape walls.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian-scaled park paths and seating contrasted against large multistory commercial and residential towers.
- Lighting
- Soft twilight or late afternoon overcast light casting gentle shadows across the hardscape and highlighting the tower facades.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and structured public openness nestled within a dense commercial core.
- Environmental context
- Urban high-density district featuring modern commercial glass towers and mixed-use residential blocks surrounding an open public park.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from intimate landscaped seating areas in the foreground up and across the open green park toward the towering vertical facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal garden beds intersect the rectilinear plaza geometry, leading views toward the vertical curtain wall grids.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban landscape design
- Program
- Urban public park and mixed-use precinct
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- landscape