A collaboration between OJB Landscape Architects, Machado Silvetti, and the Town of Cary, N.C., Downtown Cary Park brings an extraordinarily vibrant, urbanistically significant new gathering space to the Raleigh-Durham-Cary “triangle,” with five architectural pavilions woven into the landscape. Curves blur boundaries between built space and natural, as distinctive programmatic zones work together in service of civic life.
A cohesive assemblage of landscape and architecture, this downtown urban park—envisioned for twenty years and newly completed—is a study in program, tectonics, formal articulations, and circulation.
A central Great Lawn Pavilion works as an urban stage, while other pavilions—including the sinuous Bark Bar and the more enclosed Academy Pavilion—come into conversation with each other and their surroundings, drawing the public in and through this lively new urban space at the center of the town’s historic core. Landscape and hardscape work in concert with each pavilion, creating a space for connection and community.
