The Piggyback Yard Conceptual Master Plan envisions a vast, new park offering a wide range of activities for a diverse community, a developed mixed-use Mission Road corridor, an Arts Campus, a restored Los Angeles River and a new Transit District adjacent to Downtown and central to the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. (more…)

The Piggyback Yard Conceptual Master Plan envisions a vast, new Park offering a wide range of activities for a diverse community, a developed mixed-use Mission Road corridor, an Arts Campus, a restored Los Angeles River, and a new Transit District, adjacent to Downtown and central to the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Broadened River variation proposes to restore and widen the Los Angeles River at the Piggyback Yard to create a thriving natural habitat within its course. (more…)

Through an iterative design process, our collaborative design group has studied multiple ways of giving the overall concept developed for the Piggyback Yard a compelling expression in terms of urban design, architecture and landscape architecture. We sought to find the proper balance of building density and open space for the site as a whole, and especially for the Mission Road corridor, we considered various alternatives for major elements of the park and, most importantly, we studied several ways of transforming the river to achieve its naturalization, revitalization and accessibility. (more…)