Laurie Olin, who is designing the publicly accessible open space at Atlantic Yards, has directed some of the most extraordinary transformations of the human environment in the last several decades, including Bryant Park and Battery Park in New York City and Canary Wharf in London. His firm, Olin Partnership, is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning landscape architecture and urban design firm dedicated to creating artistic, sensitive and timeless environments.
Olin Partnership aspires to raise landscape architecture—an art form that combines ecological and social responsibility—to a position as the most influential field in the design and planning of human settlements. The hallmarks of Olin Partnership designs are powerful, imaginative concepts, fine craftsmanship and the use of handsome, lasting materials to create beautiful, useful and meaningful places.
Olin Partnership developments have received numerous awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, including the 2003 Design Honor Award for the J. Paul Getty Center in
"By synthesizing the best of art and science, we seek to transform natural and man-made elements into expressions of social purpose, reconciling the character of the place with its contemporary adaptations."
- Landscape architect Laurie Olin
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Find out more about these and other Laurie Olin projects at the Olin Partnership website.
