From: | lsiegel@cpeo.org |
Date: | 14 Sep 2005 20:12:33 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-irf |
Subject: | [CPEO-IRF] "Great Park" designs for El Toro (CA) |
1 Great Park for Irvine, 7 Elaborate Possibilities Designers rethink El Toro with attractions such as lakes, a 'fog forest' and a monorail. By Jean O. Pasco Los Angeles Times September 14, 2005 The ideas came from as far as Spain and as close as Disneyland: seven ambitious proposals to transform a deserted patchwork of runways and hangars into something like New York's Central Park, smack in the middle of Orange County. The city of Irvine has embarked on a massive planning effort for the Orange County Great Park, a roughly 1,000-acre regional preserve with museums and sports fields to be built in the center of the former El Toro Marine base and surrounded by about 3,400 new homes. The proposals, from seven internationally known design firms, are as grand as the city's planners hope the park will be. One features a monorail to move visitors around the 2-square-mile park, with a long canal for rowing and canoeing. Another envisions a terraced knoll at the center built around a large lake. "This is our last opportunity in Orange County to really create a place that can bring us together," said private land planner Don Bauer, among a group of 14 Orange County designers, planners and architects who converged on Irvine this week to critique the proposals. ... For the entire article, see http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-great14sep14,0,7628613.story?coll=la-home-local -- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Installation_Reuse_Forum mailing list Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/installation_reuse_forum | |
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