The Green Ribbon establishes strategies for corridor aesthetics and landscape enhancements along Texas highways surrounding Houston. This plan addresses existing infrastructure and future expansion needs of the growing urban area.
The project focuses on intensive landscape plantings and architectural treatments, improving aesthetics while addressing air quality and stormwater management concerns. The framework allows for large-scale improvements across a regional transect, accommodating local variation while maintaining cohesive standards.
A key achievement is the planting of over 2 million trees, enhancing the urban canopy. The plan’s flexibility enables local sub-districts to implement further enhancements through funding agreements with partners. The master plan serves as a living document, providing TxDOT with a foundation to incorporate evolving standards for Houston’s transportation infrastructure needs.
Wuhan East Lake Greenway
PHASE 1: Wuhan, known as the land of one thousand lakes, is one of the most ancient cities in China, and is the third largest technological and education center in China, only behind Beijing and Shanghai. Now home to over 8 million people, Wuhan has become the dominant transportation hub in Central China and holds the distinguished role of capital of Hubei Pro...
John Wayne Airport
SWA served as landscape architects at the new airport terminal located in urban Orange County. Landscape improvements, totaling 20 acres, consisted of a large open area adjacent to the terminal, and narrow planting areas framing the site. The particular challenge was to create an appropriate image and scale for a civic project of enormous scale, including park...
Diridon Station Area Plan
In the area around Diridon Station, the City of San José and the greater Bay Area region have the unique opportunity to build an internationally prominent transportation hub and to develop a world-class destination. This plan weaves new ideas and new development possibilities into the city’s distinctive neighborhoods and existing urban fabric. Large proposals,...
Lewis Avenue
In a city renowned for fantasy, the design of Las Vegas’ Lewis Avenue celebrates the local desert landscape and affirms the street as part of a real-world working district. It was one of the first projects to be implemented in Mayor Oscar B. Goodman’s 2000 Las Vegas Downtown Centennial Plan, aimed at revitalizing the historic downtown core. The City asked SWA,...