Tom Lee Park is a lush new public space that transforms the banks of the Mississippi river in Memphis
Tom Lee Park unfolds along the east bank of the Mighty Mississippi. Set to open officially on Labor Day 2023, this is an important, new, green space for downtown Memphis, as well as a place where nature and the city meet. Its creators, Chicago based Studio Gang and New York’s Scape , describe the old site as a ‘working waterfront’, a previously flat, inhospitable, landfill part of town used for anything between parking lot, dump site, commercial transport route and industrial facility.
The designers worked to add texture and articulation to the site, by creating sequences of open lawns and more enclosed garden sections, bringing grading and physical dynamism through form and an undulating terrain. Gang explains that they studied the aerial shape of the Mississippi, looking at its natural, winding body, and used it as a reference point for their design.
‘My design process for the park was to pair dynamic Mississippi River land/water forms with public programs that we heard from our community outreach,’ says Orff. ‘So you’ll see jogging paths through some immersive “riffle” gardens, a playground in a raised area or “batture” and micro deltas bursting with native plants that welcome visitors to the many park entrances. SCAPE’s first encounter with the site was on a hot muggy afternoon.
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