Santa Fe Railyard Park + Plaza incorporates Stabilized Decomposed Granite

Posted 13 years ago

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Santa Fe’s Railyard Park + Plaza is the cover feature of July’s Landscape Architecture Magazine. Railyard Park + Plaza incorporated Stabilizer®, The Original Natural Binder into the pathways that literally and figuratively link Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo cultural and environmental systems. In higher traffic areas, StaLok® Paving Material was also used. The project integrates multiple notions and histories of this western city into a contemporary urban vista. Additionally the park is another high profile project that incorporates Stabilizer® into an innovative “water harvesting landscape,” much like recent ASLA award winners Biodesign Institute and the U of A CALA Underwood Garden.

Landscape Architecture Magazine says the park “…is arguably the most significant urban park built in Santa Fe since the Spanish governor Don Pedro de Peralta established the historic Plaza at the center of the city in 1610.” Read the entire LAM article by Alex Ulam on the Railyard Park website.

Accolades go out to New York based landscape architect Ken Smith, Frederic Schwartz, and artist Mary Miss for Railroad Park + Plaza.

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