Olmstead park to get new lease on life.(Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects and Christian Zimmerman awarded contract to build recreation facility)

Real Estate Weekly | February 28, 2007| | Copyright

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, in conjunction with landscape architect, Christian Zimmerman, recently scored a designer's dream project when they were awarded the contract to build the new Lakeside Center recreation facility, and to restore to its former glory a dormant landscape carved by Fredrick Olmstead when he helped design Prospect Park.

"This is a unique opportunity. There aren't many Olmstead landscapes as intact as this one and the fact that we can reclaim a portion of it that was lost for so many years is extraordinary. Together we are cutting new ...

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