Public Landscape Architecture
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South Burlington City Center Gateway
As a design team, T. J. Boyle Associates and artist Dan Gottsegen collaborated successfully with residents, the City of South Burlington and Healthy Living, to evoke a sense of place through images, engage residents on-site as well as in the design process, provide seating and visual amenities to Healthy Living, and by using local materials in construction. To turn an urban environment into one of artistic interpretation, the design included curvilinear forms translucent, colorful vertical planes to create a visually lyrical and chromatically engaging experience for the viewer. The main feature, a custom fabricated screening fence, playfully undulates through the site, alternating between sections of vine covered screen mesh and colorful painted images of the landscape. The landscape images themselves are a focal point and were inspired through a charette led by artist Dan Gottsegen involving participants from cross-cultural, inter-generational and senior communities. -
Main Street Landing - Lake & College Building
Main Street Landing is a mixed-use project including theaters, hotel, shops, and public places in a 3 and 4-storied structure near Burlington’s Waterfront. Our work involved integrating the upper eastside (floor level 3) into the existing Battery Park lower plaza. In agreement with the Burlington Parks Commission, this portion of Battery Park Extension (originally designed by T. J. Boyle and Associates in the 1970's) was enhanced to become the upper forecourt to this transitional building between Battery Street and Lake Street. -
Southeast Vermont Welcome Center
Opened in 2001 as the first in a series of new Vermont Interstate Welcome Centers, it became a model for the Vermont Travel and Tourism Department and the Vermont Agency of Transportation. As the major interstate gateway from southern New England, this center has broken previous records for tourist participation in the State. T.J. Boyle Associates developed the concept and circulation pattern organized around a six acre former gravel pit averaging 12 below grade. The entry road skims the rim of a meadow created by re-grading the pit which includes walks displaying historic industrial, agricultural, and mining artifacts. T.J. Boyle Associates was directly involved in all of the design decision pertaining to the site from the earliest concept through execution. This project received numerous awards, including an Honor Award from the Vermont Chapter of ASLA, as well as awards from the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Civil Engineers. -
Main Street, Burlington
T. J. Boyle Associates, LLC worked with a Mayor’s task force to develop a series of alternate concepts to upgrade Main Street, Burlington’s gateway from the east. A major design issue was to provide safe crossing for University of Vermont students traveling between the north and south campuses. Alternate on grade and grade separated solutions were developed to enable the connection and the final concept decided on was an on-grade crossing with timed pedestrian crossing lights and a median. T. J. Boyle developed detail construction plans for implementation of the concepts in coordination with Webster-Martin, Engineers. -
South Burlington Open Space Strategy
T.J. Boyle Associates performed a study for the City of South Burlington to provide guidance to the City Council, Planning Commission and the Natural Resource Committee in identifying existing open space and their attributes and to develop a strategy for prioritizing additional open space for conservation, protection and acquisition. The South Burlington Natural Resources Committee oversaw the Open Space Study. The project evolved from a vision to create a system of lands that protects the natural resources and wildlife habitats/corridors and conserves the working landscape of South Burlington. With the aid of a Conservation Fund, which draws one cent on the tax rate annually, the City Council, Planning Commission and the NRC hope to establish a network of conserved and/or protected lands. This study won the 2002 Vermont Public Space Award sponsored by VTASLA, AIA, VPA & ASCE

