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Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Donated to the City of Austin in 1875 by the Governor of Texas Elisa M. Pease, The 84-acre Pease Park is Austin’s oldest urban green space outside of the downtown public spaces envisaged in the city’s original plan, and next month the facility will see its most significant upgrade since the park’s first major improvements nearly a century ago .
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Known as Kingsbury Commons, a local design firm’s project Ten Eyck landscape architecture created a $ 15 million Recreational area for all ages at the park’s south entrance on Kingsbury Street, including new play areas, an amphitheater, large lawn, water feature and renovations to transform the historic 1920’s Tudor Cottage public toilet into a venue and adjoining patio. designed by local heritage preservation architects preservation Clayton Korte.
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
It is only the first phase in the much larger Pease Park Vision Plan promoted by the stewardship organization of the Pease Park Conservation, who will have operational and maintenance responsibility for these and other anticipated improvements through a public-private partnership with the City of Austin. This is all fantastic news, but we’re really here to talk about an addition at the heart of this project – the official name is this tree housebut I can’t help but call it that Bullet. It looks like this:
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Designed by a local studio Mell Lawrence Architects, the Orb – sorry, the Treehouse – is an installation that appears to resemble a seed pod resting on the forest floor. A net spanned across the second level allows park visitors to sit or lie between the surrounding canopy of trees, providing a natural perspective and all-round good time in a high quality package that serves as the main focus of the Kingsbury project due to its sharp, fictional character Crichton looks stand out.
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
Image: Pease Park Conservancy
The tree house sets the bar for Austin’s large public investment similar to the recent Alliance Children’s Garden or the new Central Library. It’s hard to explain, but there is a distinctively “big city” feel to these designs – they are bourgeois spaces, the size and vision of the growth of Austin itself, a city all too tending to deny its increasing national importance in spite of it all evidence to the contrary. With construction here starting around the same time as the pandemic in March last year, Kingsbury Commons is currently slated to open for Mid-June This is the perfect time for all of us to rediscover our love for outdoor recreation.
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