Design Team
Project Artist
Ross Miller
Landscape Architects
Brown, Richardson & Rowe
Clarissa Rowe
Lisa Roth
Annie Blair
Architects
Gillham, Gander & Chin
Candy Gander
Civil and Structural Engineers
Joint Venture of Greenman-Pederson, Inc. +
Ammann & Whitney Vollmer Associates
Fabrication and Installation
JF White Contracting Company
Sean Curley
Ryan Iron Works
Ed Johnson
Central artery Tunnel Project
Fred Yalouris
Charlotte Fleetwood
Bill Lindemulder
Youseef Khalifeh
Brij Goyal
Project Assistant
Mary Lucking
Historical Consultant
Nancy Seashoals
Work completed within Central Artery Highway Project 19BA contract for site restoration after I-93 highway construction.
Potato Sack Bollard - cast concrete
A stack of potato bags, recalls the history of potato storage sheds that existed in the area in the late 19th and early 20th century when this was the end of the Boston & Maine Railroad line.
Harbor Depth Markings
Sandblast into concrete are numbers from harbor depth charts that indicate the depth in that location prior to landfill in the late 1800’s.
Custom light poles
Light poles with markings inspired by the davit arms used along this area to unload boats in the 17th and 18th Century. Traditional MDC Charles River Basin fixture heads connect this lighting progression to existing lighting in the surrounding area.
Walkway over
Miller’s River
Yellow fiberglass decking and painted steel railing of cantilevered pedestrian walkway leading through a monochrome landscape of concrete piers supporting
the highway above.
Round stainless steel benches
Historical charts, maps and drawings etched on stainless steel plates.
1835 harbor chart
Graphic etched into SS plate on bench.
Walkway - 2000 feet
from Rutherford Avenue to the Charles River
Walkway - follows under I-93 North/South and leads to the New Charles River Basin Park (pending completion 2010-2011)
guard rail fence - fabrication of fence with laser cut leaves
