Terrain Work is excited to announce that Al Fresco Botanical Garden has won an American Society of Landscape Architects New York award for 2023! Located in Peoria, Illinois, the botanical garden highlights the rich diversity of flora and fauna found in the riparian riverfront ecology of the Illinois River while embracing the site's cultural history as an amusement park in the early 1900s. Al Fresco offers a dynamic and infinitely changing experience for visitors based on the rise and fall of the water level of the Illinois River. Al Fresco presents visitors with “Ecological Amusement” by weaving together the natural and cultural history found on the site while showcasing plants from one of the most ecologically productive habitats found in North America. To learn more about Al Fresco click here.
Terrain Work Designs Master Plan for Wheels o' Time Museum
Terrain Work recently completed a new master plan for the Wheels O’ Time Museum in Peoria, Illinois. The museum houses an extensive collection of over 30,000 square feet of antique and collector cars, trains, airplanes, tractors, fire trucks, and bicycles. In addition it recently acquired an innovative house from the 1930's constructed entirely from steel by the renowned industrial designer R.G. LeTourneau.
Terrain Work’s master plan for the museum incorporates the newly acquired Le Tourneau house into the museum campus to create an interconnected series of wheels that each contain different gardens designed to display museum artifacts and provide a variety of programmatic functions for the public to enjoy. To learn more about this project click here.
Terrain Work to Design New Eco(tonal) Community in Illinois
Terrain Work has begun the urban design and planning for a new 33 acre Eco(tonal) Community on the site of a former tree production nursery in Central Illinois. The community will be organized around the ecotones of several landscape types: Deciduous Hardwood Forest, Shortgrass Prairie, and Littoral. A central wildlife corridor creates a link for both species and residents to move between an adjacent hardwood forest, and a shared open space surrounding a small lake. A water management plan for the community will capture and treat all runoff generated on the site through a network of bio-cells distributed throghout the community. Visit us at terrainwork.com for updates on this project.