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Design Firms Submitting Proposals to Design the Orange County Great Park

24 firms have submitted their qualifications to design the Orange County Great Park. Here is a brief summary of each of the firms competing to design the first great metropolitan park of the 21st Century. Ábalos & Herreros Iñaki Abalos Juan Herreros C/ Gran Vía, 16 3ºC Madrid, Spain (28013) www.abalos-herreros.com Iñaki Abalos and Juan [...]

Great Park Corporation Seeks Children’s View

Children from Irvine and Tustin invited to share visual and verbal views about what makes a Great Park

JUNE 1, 2005 – IRVINE, California – Who knows better about what goes in a park than a 10 year old? The Orange County Great Park Corporation is seeking the visual and verbal suggestions of dozens of children from Irvine and Tustin as part of the planning process to come up with “great” ideas about what [...]

Great Park Design Jury Selected

The Orange County Great Park Corporation named a jury design panel today of six respected academics, architects and professionals. The jury will review the qualifications of the landscape architecture firms who are competing to design the Great Park and

The Orange County Great Park Corporation named a jury design panel today of six respected academics, architects and professionals. The jury will review the qualifications of the landscape architecture firms who are competing to design the Great Park and recommend six finalists to the Orange County Great Park Corporation board of directors. These finalists will [...]

Orange County Great Park Design Process Begins

Commencement of the international design competition marks the first step in the creation of the Great Park.

The Orange County Great Park Corporation has taken the first step toward creating the first great metropolitan park of the 21st Century by issuing a formal Request for Qualifications, inviting world class landscape architects and designers to compete for the job of Master Designer for the Orange County Great Park. “Fredrick Law Olmstead designed New [...]

Lennar Communities Buys El Toro Property

Development of the Orange County Great Park reached its most significant milestone to date with the conclusion of the Navy’s auction of the El Toro property on February 16. Miami based Lennar Communities, one of the nation’s leading residential and commercial developers, bought the entire El Toro property for $649.5 million. Proceeds from the sale [...]

Make the Great Park YOUR Park

Community Based Meetings and Surveys Bring Residents Into Planning Process

Beginning this spring, the Orange County Great Park Corporation will undertake a community needs assessment to provide Orange County residents the opportunity to offer their views on how to make the Orange County Great Park truly great. The needs assessment will involve presentations to community organizations, public meetings and interviews, and a survey of county [...]

The Art of Designing a Great Park

Artists Can Bring a Unique Creative Vision to the Park Design Process

Great Parks are open air museums that display monumental works of public art. Every imaginable form of art, from the traditional statues of generals on horseback to modern, abstract forms of art such as Christo’s recent exhibit in New York’s Central Park, have found a place in the natural beauty of parks. Paul Schimmel, Chief [...]

Auction Kicks Off Development of the Great Park

The Next Phase of the Development Process Begins With the End of the Auction

Three years of hard work by the Department of the Navy, the City of Irvine, the County of Orange and many hard working individuals and nonprofit organizations brought us to this point. During the next six months, a number of very important milestone events will bring the Great Park closer to reality. El Toro will [...]

Environmental Expert to Address Orange County Great Park Board

AUGUST 6, 2004 – IRVINE, California – The Orange County Great Park Board is pleased to announce that environmental expert Dr. Michael S. Brown is the featured speaker at the August 26 Great Park Symposium. Dr. Brown will speak at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Irvine Civic Center, One Civic Center Plaza in Irvine. [...]