You might want to put this video link on your blog and put it out on the email. This video shows Sydney's Paddington Reservoir Gardens.... a park made out of a reservoir just like McMillan. This sort of concept could VERY EASILY be integrated into the current Vision McMillan Partners (VMP) plan for McMillan to improve it.
We just need them to take the roof off of one or two cells..... Seems HPRB has some aversion to doing this, but you see how they did it and what value it adds. In fact, this particular park might be the closest thing to what we should be shooting for with McMillan.
The two reviewers close this video with the quote "I don't think that there are many public spaces like this in the world."
Check it out. We need to make this video get seen! Esp. by the HPRB. I think that VMP could be "convinced" to add this to their current plan.
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It is in the plan to open up one cell and keep one cell as is so I don't understand why you think they are not doing this????
the cell they want to include is looking from the Community center into the adjacent cell on Channing (i forget the number of the cell) .but the plan is not to allow public access to the actual cell and it not about opening up the cell to the sky to expose the infrastructure.... they at one point had something they referred to as the forest of columns which was a similar concept, but that was in a previous iteration and it has been dropped from the current plan.
Very cool location! Thanks for posting this, Todd. This is certainly the type of thing that it would benefit us to talk about at the community benefits meetings.
See this comment that I have been asked to post (note that this comment is also posted on its own, since there are images included -- here is the link: http://bloomingdaleneighborhood.blogspot.com/2014/02/vision-mcmillan-partners-landscape.html)
See this response from Jeffrey Aten of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects:
As the landscape architect for Vision McMillan Partners, I would agree, Paddington Reservoir is a great precedent for McMillan. We did in fact study it as we developed the concept for the new park at McMillan. I hope these two renderings below give you a sense of how we applied that inspiration.
Jeffrey Aten, PLA, CLARB, ASLA, Senior Associate
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
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