2019 Best of Design Award for Landscape — Public: Josey Lake Park
Designer: Clark Condon
Location: Cypress, Texas
Josey Lake Park is a 140-acre recreational green space that connects users to nature, education, culture, and recreation while serving as a sustainable stormwater detention system. The design took land typically designated for infrastructure and turned it into an amenity with various ecosystem types and multiple levels of active and passive recreation. Creative site grading produced very generous slopes, which provided ample space to accommodate activities both below and above the 100- year flood elevation. Through careful planning and intentional design, this stormwater detention facility has been programmed to create a leisure destination that focuses on ecology, education, and connectivity to benefit humans and wildlife.
Client: The Howard Hughes Corporation
Architect: Overland Partners
Civic Engineer: BGE
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Designer: SCAPE Landscape Architecture DCP
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Designer: SHoP Architects
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Designer: Colwell Shelor Landscape Architecture
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