Malibu – Whitworth and I

May 1, 2013May 13, 2019

Legacy Park in Malibu Wins ASLA Honor Award

Legacy Park in Malibu, California, has won an Honor Award for Design in the Parks, Recreation, Trails and Open Space category from the American Association of Landscape Architects.

Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey (RHAA) picked up the award for creating a 15-acre habitat demonstration, environmental education and storm water management oasis from what was once, by some accounts, a rather scrappy vacant lot. Tom worked with Leslie Stone Associates on the interpretive component of the project, providing illustrations for panels and designing what became some pretty cool mosaic sculptures. Congratulations to everyone involved.

More from Whitworth and i on the project:

More View of Legacy Park Mosaic Animals

Robin Indar, the mosaic artist who made the larger than life animal sculptures installed in Malibu Legacy Park last fall, has posted some more views of the animals that we think are pretty fun.

Tom designed the sculptures in preparation for Robin’s work, and it’s exciting to see the finished sculptures.

Here’s Robin’s video. Enjoy.

April 16, 2010May 13, 2019

Legacy Park Animals Hit the Road

It’s exciting. Some of the animals Tom designed for Malibu Legacy Park are now complete and have begun the journey south for installation.

Mosaic artist Robin Indar has been working hard to complete all of the sculptures for the park opening that will be scheduled for sometime this fall. (You can find more pictures of her work for this project on her blog Confessions of a Tile Smasher – and you’ll find more information about her on her website www.robinindar.com.)

We’re looking forward to seeing the animals in place – especially once the plants and landscaped areas of the 17-acre park have matured. They should be pretty spectacular.

Legacy Park is the linchpin in the City of Malibu’s $50 million dollar plan to improve water quality. The park is designed to work as an environmental cleaning machine, reducing pollution impacts in Malibu Creek, Malibu Lagoon, and at Surfrider Beach. At the same time it will provide a living learning center for five coastal habitats – including Southern California’s only coastal prairie. The animals that have been sculpted were chosen as representative of those coastal habitats.

Tom worked on this project through Leslie Stone Associates.