The article discusses the success of the Lurie Garden project in Chicago's Millennium Park over the past 10 years. It attributes the success to two key factors: 1) having a strong original design narrative that allowed changes to be made seamlessly while retaining the overall design concepts, and 2) establishing long-term relationships between the original landscape architects and ongoing garden stewards to help the project stay true to the original vision over time.
The article discusses the success of the Lurie Garden project in Chicago's Millennium Park over the past 10 years. It attributes the success to two key factors: 1) having a strong original design narrative that allowed changes to be made seamlessly while retaining the overall design concepts, and 2) establishing long-term relationships between the original landscape architects and ongoing garden stewards to help the project stay true to the original vision over time.
The article discusses the success of the Lurie Garden project in Chicago's Millennium Park over the past 10 years. It attributes the success to two key factors: 1) having a strong original design narrative that allowed changes to be made seamlessly while retaining the overall design concepts, and 2) establishing long-term relationships between the original landscape architects and ongoing garden stewards to help the project stay true to the original vision over time.
Reflection #1 Chicago Fell In Love In her article, Chicago Fell In Love, author Thasa Way explores the Lurie Garden project in Millenium Park and looks back over the past 10 years since it was first opened to uncover what has made the project so successful. Way explains that one of the key elements in making this project so successful is its strong design narrative. She explains that by having a strong design narrative, other professionals are able to easily key in to the original design and in the event that something needs to be tweaked, they can retain the original design concepts while making only subtle changes. Way explains that as the project has matured, numerous unforeseen changes had to be made such as the removal of the Echinacea purpurea Rubinglow which was very susceptible to disease, or the replacement of the decomposed granite pathways which couldnt handle the high volume of traffic. In both of these cases, the professionals that worked to remedy the problems unforeseen in the original design were able to blend their solutions with the original design scheme seamlessly due to the strong design narrative driving the entire project. Way explains that another key element to a successful project is the establishing of long-term relationships between landscape architects and garden stewards. Synergy between the original designer and the persons maintaining the project for the years to come is important to ensure that a project continues to stay true to the original design as it matures. All in all, the success of the Lurie Garden project owes itself to the presence of a strong driving narrative and the synergy between the stewards and the original designer.
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