PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Field Operations designed the 5-acre Central Green at the heart of the Philadelphia Navy Yard Corporate Center on a site historically marked by wetlands, meadows, and bird habitat. Today, the site is growing into Philadelphia’s most innovative and progressive corporate neighborhood.
The design unites the cutting edge urban potential of the site with its native habitat, resulting in a new type of environment that is sustainable, green, and natural as well as social, active, and urban. A 20-foot wide Social Track organizes the site’s circulation and frames an immersive interior park that features flowering meadows, a hammock grove, an outdoor amphitheater, bocce courts, and fitness stations. Central Green has been recognized in the Architizer A+Awards and the ULI Philadelphia Awards for Excellence as a project that demonstrates quality planning and design, incorporating elements that build healthy places, promote environmental sustainability, and meet community needs.
Photography by Augmented Arts and Halkin Mason.