THE GREEN
Charlotte, North Carolina, 2003

The Green in downtown Charlotte is a 1.5-acre privately maintained park with public access. To emphasize the client’s focus on literacy, the artists transformed the park’s paving into a giant game board. Children’s riddles, an oversized hopscotch, and various alphabet games were sandblasted into patterns of brick, stone, and concrete. The park centerpiece is a 24’ diameter fountain plaza featuring three GFRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete) spouting fish that measure 9.5’ in height. Encircling the fountain plaza are wave benches that start close to the ground and ramp up to normal seat height. The floor of the plaza contains aquatic quotes by James Joyce and Adam Lindsay Gordon. The paving design was a collaboration with Barb McKee.

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