Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Client: The Trust for Public Land | The City of Santa Fe Parks and Recreation

Project Team: Frederic Schwartz Architects, Architect | Ken Smith Landscape Architect, Landscape Architect | Mary Miss, Artist | URS Corporation, Project Engineer

Awards: Winner, invited Competition | New York AIA Urban Design Honor Award | Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence | National Park Service Award for Site Design

The Santa Fe Railyard Park, activates the last remaining large-scale parcel of public land in downtown Santa Fe. The new expansive park knits together a loose group of cultural and commercial facilities to form a cohesive local cultural precinct. The park connects neighborhoods previously separated by a dust bowl and brownfield industrial site, and now provides safe, attractive pedestrian and bike links to downtown Santa Fe. The project includes a new public plaza, a new shade structure used by local farmers’ markets, play areas, performance spaces, alamedas and gardens.