A team of landscape architects will descend upon Bushnell Plaza on Wednesday to suggest new options for the under-realized urban space.
This ambush over the lunch hour Wednesday involves sketching and gathering input from passers-by to discuss how to better use this underdeveloped and underuse space. Bushnell Plaza runs along Main Street between the Wadsworth Atheneum and Bushnell Park. It is in the opposite corner from Travelers Tower and Plaza.
“This event will help demonstrate how landscape architects design ‘living streets’ and create urban spaces that become destinations for pedestrians in cities,” says Kristin Schwab, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Connecticut, and one of the coordinators of the event.
The landscape architects who will participate in the event were from the American Society of Landscape Architects, Connecticut Chapter and represented companies including Towers/Golde, LLC in New Haven, Keith Simpson Associates in New Canaan, Aris Land Studio in Bridgeport, Diversified Technology Consultants in Hamden, Fitzgerald & Halliday in Hartford, Richter & Cegan in Avon, Talcott and Associates in Old Lyme, LADA, P.C. in Simsbury, and UConn in Storrs.
