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Pease Park in Austin, Texas
Dec 29, 2020
Pease Park
Architecture: Clayton Korte
Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Pease Park is known as Austin?s first park, this 84-acre public green space has a rich history spanning from ancestral native civilizations to the city?s founding mothers and fathers; its popularity endures with Austinites today.
To establish a comprehensive approach for the park?s rehabilitation, preservation, and the enhancement of its cultural, recreational, and natural features, Pease Park Conservancy hired Clayton Korte in 2014 to design a Master Plan for the park with urban planning and landscape architecture firm Wallace, Roberts & Todd.
With a focus on the park?s built elements, historic features and cultural resources, Clayton Korte performed an inventory and analysis and developed conceptual alternatives. Following participation in a series of public meetings, the Master Plan was finalized and submitted to the Austin City Council who moved unanimously to adopt it in the fall of 2014. Subsequently, the Master Plan received the 2015 Project Planning Award by the American Planning Association?s Texas Chapter Awards Committee.

The project here, with design completed in collaboration with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, affects the park?s southernmost tip, affectionately referred to as its ?recreational heart and cultural soul? and is the first to be implemented from the Ma...