Rash Field
Partnering with New York landscape architects Thomas Balsley and Associates, Floura Teeter will lend local perspective and assist in an ambitious new redesign of the Inner Harbor’s Rash Field Park. Located on the Inner Harbor’s south shore, the 9.3-acre site incorporates a new science park, formal and informal gardens, promontories, sports lawns, and even a recreational run for the family pet. The park’s current beach volleyball courts and trapeze school will remain also, retooled and reintegrated into the design, guaranteeing continued use among the city’s many urban adventurers.
As an architectural element in the landscape, the park runs east and west along Key Highway and links the city’s heady Maryland Science Center with its breezy Visionary Arts Museum. City leaders expect new park features to add one more “must see–must experience” to an Inner Harbor already rich in choice family activities. For those who journey to the park from out of town, an added bonus will be the camouflaged parking structure with its 628-underground spaces. Designed by Baltimore architects Ziger/Snead, the inconspicuous structure will receive a green roof design by FTLA, and Floura Teeter expects to blend the rooftop garden seamlessly into other park features, maintaining the Inner Harbor’s people and pedestrian friendly feel.