A just-completed landscape architecture project is breathing new life into one of our country’s most iconic colleges, offering lessons for how innovative concrete designs can reinvent highly trafficked spaces and replace well-trodden paths. And I wanted to pass it along for your consideration for future coverage.
After months of construction, a $6.9 million “Gerstacker Grove” project at the University of Michigan helped liven its North Campus. Designed by the landscape architects at Stoss, the Gerstacker Grove has been renovated and modernized to incorporate a unique central plaza with custom precast seat walls surrounded by a green quad, providing a striking space where students can study, socialize and connect.  You can view photos of the stunning Gerstacker Grove and its landscape architecture, which was just completed, here.
The sleek and artistic project – which replaced those well-worn footprints in the grass – features 700,000 pounds of Tectura Designs’ custom precast concrete. Tectura leveraged more than 60 years of experience to create this unique and sophisticated project, that includes continuous concrete seat walls that bring unmatched strength and beauty to the heart of North Campus.