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Greenville, SC, United States
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ONE City Plaza
Greenville, SC, United States
Greenville's textile industry history and the region's geomorphology inspired the Civitas team's 'fabric of innovation' design for this three-acre downtown plaza. 'Our ideas for design sprang from the history of Greenville as a center of weaving, inspiring patterns in paving, plantings and furnishings that tie the place into a whole by encouraging movement ' of space, of furnishings, and of people weaving a gathering place together,' says Mark Johnson, principal of Denver-based urban design consultancy Civitas. While the layers and folds of patterns reference the city's past, contemporary material palette upgrades include granite pavers and the 'woven' stainless steel shade canopies ' a dramatic iconic emblem of the plaza ' suiting Greenville's sophisticated and growing creative and tech communities.
The site for the ONE City Plaza project was formerly known as the Piazza Bergamo. Originally developed in the early '80s, the area had become worn, with weekly concerts devolving into loud beer parties. A Civitas-led community engagement process allowed the firm to create a design that reimagined the public space to meet community desire for a more restrained, comfortable and attractive plaza for daily use.
With construction completed in 2014, the reinvigorated city center serves as the core of a new mixed-use development, interweaving natural elements with modern form and materials. Urban sofas, sun and shade, water, color, and plants were used to make a place to wait, meet, chat, have a meal, and enjoy the active street life. The plaza revitalizes a mid-block street as a pedestrian alley, expands event space and redefines the perimeter as multi-modal streets integrating porous paving and bioswales. A diversity of fixed and moveable seating offers a contrast of color and form while native Piedmont forest plantings and a meandering water runnel that terminates with a falls provide an urban respite.
The site for the ONE City Plaza project was formerly known as the Piazza Bergamo. Originally developed in the early '80s, the area had become worn, with weekly concerts devolving into loud beer parties. A Civitas-led community engagement process allowed the firm to create a design that reimagined the public space to meet community desire for a more restrained, comfortable and attractive plaza for daily use.
With construction completed in 2014, the reinvigorated city center serves as the core of a new mixed-use development, interweaving natural elements with modern form and materials. Urban sofas, sun and shade, water, color, and plants were used to make a place to wait, meet, chat, have a meal, and enjoy the active street life. The plaza revitalizes a mid-block street as a pedestrian alley, expands event space and redefines the perimeter as multi-modal streets integrating porous paving and bioswales. A diversity of fixed and moveable seating offers a contrast of color and form while native Piedmont forest plantings and a meandering water runnel that terminates with a falls provide an urban respite.
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