WEST END YARDS - Portsmouth, NH
West End Yards is a small, mixed-use development on the outskirts of Portsmouth occupying a former light-industrial area. Historically, this site comprised a network of buildings that included ice houses and lumber sheds, not surprising given the adjacency to the railroad.
The landscape here involves two centers: The Junction and The Courtyard. The Junction is a woonerf (the relevant translation being "common access" from the Dutch) or shared street. This plaza-type space, a meeting of cars and people, will be active with residents and visitors alike milling about. The latter is an enclosed garden exclusive to the residents.
Office: Site Solutions
Status: Completed
Owners Rep: Steve Leonard
Principal-in-Charge: David Floyd
Design Landscape Architect: Kevin McCarthy
Project Management: John Merritt
The Junction
The Courtyard
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At West End Yards, we used a combination of off-the-shelf products either as-is or adapted while also suggesting new furnishings to be fabricated from repurposed objects, all with a coordinated finish and touch. The intent with the site elements was to evoke the history of the site in a modern context. Many of these details were not realized, but they were enormous fun to develop.
