Lincoln Park SoundScape Naturally Kisses Gehry's New World Symphony Hall

DesignTracker| Miami Beach SoundScape/Lincoln Park is a meandering expanse of plants, pergolas, and palms designed around Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony classical music hub. Soundscape opens tonight with the concert hall.

“The park was designed to be a very flexible space,” West 8 principal Jamie Maslyn Larson tells us. “It needed to be both a great day-to-day-use park and one that could support multifaceted events, including video displays and an audio system that’s world-class.”

The park uses the Gehry building’s 7.500-square-foot blank wall as a giant projection screen for concerts and video art.

In every aspect strives to establish a new precedent for parks in the City of Miami Beach. Slightly larger than one hectare in size, the grounds strive to feel green, living in concert with Miami’s outdoor living sensibility. Even the pergolas are designed in cloud shapes.

Every tree and leafy plant living at SoundScape has been designed to complement the Gehry New World Symphony and not obstruct the audience viewing site lines.

via West 8 Urban Design and Fast Company.