PARKS / RECREATION
Parks include projects of all sizes, including Community Parks, Neighborhood Parks, and Pocket Parks. Features include play areas, ball fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, par-courses, and adult fitness facilities.
Recreational projects include trails, such as the ASLA award-winning 2.4 mile San Clemente Pedestrian Beach Trail. Wilderness parks such as Oak Canyon Park in Anaheim and DeWitt Creek Restoration in Laguna Canyon include nature trails, habitat restoration, and interpretive elements.
BUILDING CREATIVE PARKS
“Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature.”
Isadora Duncan, Dancer
As public facilities, parks will provide enjoyment for generations. Receiving input from neighborhood groups and stakeholders, each design is unique to the site conditions and neighborhood context…ranging from city to suburban, rural to wilderness. Each park project will integrate essential qualities of nature, such as stability, balance, variety, and movement.
We Create the Path Forward
“There are not enough superlatives to describe how I felt walking on our San Clemente Beach Trail”
Ruth Hill
Letter to O.C. Register
San Clemente Trail
This 2.4 mile long, $15 M project was led by BGB Design Group and has received planning and design awards from the American Planning Association [APA] and the American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA]. Photo above depicts a pedestrian bridge that was designed to protect a natural hillside.
Railroad / Trail interface
Trail seating node
BGB-designed seatwall
“No matter how much Crystal Cove changes, in some essential way it stays the same. It is overgrown to perfection, both casual and glamorous, welcoming and discreet — all without ever seeming to try.”
Crystal Cove Historic District is comprised of 45 oceanfront cottages constructed in the 1920’s to 40’s, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
BGB Design Group was selected by the State of California to design the final 17 cottages, including pedestrian circulation, patio and deck restoration, and period-specific landscaping.
