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Named for an influential Aboriginal woman of colonial Sydney, Barangaroo is a globally-significant, 22-hectare waterfront renewal project that redefines the western edge of Sydney Harbor. In August 2015, Barangaroo Reserve was the first phase in the 3-district master plan to open. Barangaroo Reserve is the re-creation of a “Club Cape” headland that restores the visual geography of Sydney Harbor. Using industry-first technology, a concrete container port was reborn as a naturalistic park with more than 75,000 plantings native to the Sydney region. Guided by historical maps and paintings, the design of the headland includes a foreshore of 10,000 sandstone blocks excavated directly from the site. Walking and bicycle pathways separated by a low wall known as the “1836 Wall,” symbolically mark the original precolonial shoreline. Selected as Clinton Global Initiative and One Planet Living projects, Barangaroo Reserve kept the highest ecological goals always in sight. All existing materials were reused onsite and recycled to form the headland, including the caissons and asphalt from the container port. Hidden beneath the artificial headland, the Cutaway is a massive void formed through sandstone excavation operations to host art exhibits, performances, or a future Aboriginal Cultural Center. Barangaroo Reserve transforms a huge expanse of empty concrete into humane, usable space, marking the transformation of an industrial site into a modern reinvention of its more sustainable past.
ALAN WARD
EDUCATION:
University of Cincinnati, BArch, Architecture, 1974
Harvard Graduate School of Design, MLA, Landscape Architecture, 1978
PRINCIPAL AT SASAKI SINCE 1985: SELECTED PLANNNG AND DESIGN PROJECTS
Dallas Arts District Master Plan, 1983
Reston Town Center, Reston, Virginia, 1988-2025
Cleveland Gateway Sports District, Master Plan and Landscape Architecture, 1994-1990
East Grounds of the US Capitol and New Visitor Center Landscape, 2000-2008
Master Plan and Landscape Architecture Concept Plan, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2002
The Avenue, Mixed-Use Development, Washington, DC, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, 2006-2011
Rehabilitation of the Landscape at the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool, 2008-2012
Landscape Design for US Embassies: The Hague, Helsinki, and Beirut, 2008-Current
Losner Park, Homestead, Florida, Landscape Architecture, 2019-2022
Gasworx Redevelopment, Tampa, Forida, Planning, Rezoning, and Landscape Architecture, Current
SELECTED AUTHORSHIP:
American Designed Landscapes: A Photographic Interpretation, Spacemaker Press, 1997.
Reston Town Center: A Downtown for the 21st Century, Editor and Author of Chapter: Planning and Design History, 2006
American Residential Architecture: Photographs of the Evolution of Indiana Houses, 2018
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
“Built Landscapes: Gardens of the Northeast,” Traveling exhibition, opening at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1984
“Nature by Design: Spring Grove Photographs by Alan Ward,” Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985
“Luminous Landscapes: Photographs by Alan Ward,” National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 2016
SELECTED AWARDS:
Bradford Williams Medal for Best Article in Landscape Architecture Magazine, 1985
ASLA Honor Award in Communication for the book, American Designed Landscapes: A Photographic Interpretation, 1998
Visiting Artist in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome, Fall 2002 and Fall 2006
SELECTED TEACHING:
Instructor in Architecture, College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, Taught design and photography 1974-76
Taught seminar “Photography, Design, and the Landscape,” Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design<<