Shelby Farms Park Memphis Buildings, Tennessee
Shelby Farms Park Memphis Building Tennessee, United States Architecture
Shelby Farms Park Memphis Buildings
US Architectural Development – design by James Corner Field Operations and Marlon Blackwell Architects
Sep 7, 2018
Shelby Farms Park Memphis Building
Design: James Corner Field Operations and Marlon Blackwell Architects
Location: 6903 Great View Drive North, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Shelby Farms Park Memphis Buildings in Tennessee
Shelby Farms Park, one of the largest urban parks in the country, has implemented a master plan, developed by James Corner Field Operations (JCFO), to revitalize the Park into a unique, 21st century landmark. An ensemble of buildings and structures is located around the 80 acre Hyde Lake; together, the buildings, lake, and landscape are imaged as the ?Heart of the Park.?
The buildings at Shelby Farms seek to live in between, balancing the local and the universal, introducing one to another and honoring the value of both. This has long been a role for Memphis, offering a collection of its local culture to the world at large. Now Shelby Farms Park offers the opportunity for these tides – the outflow of the local, and the inflow of the universal – to wash across a common landscape. Intensely specific in their function and articulation but universal in their abstract figuration, each member of this family of silhouettes attempts to recreate strangeness, offering a familiarity that is somehow elusive.
Drawing upon the local v...
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