Beacon Yards Urban Design Workshop
In 2014, the Beacon Yards Urban Design Workshop challenged two interdisciplinary teams to produce a draft comprehensive plan for the Beacon Yards site that fully leveraged the city building opportunities of the proposed interchange realignment.
Two public presentations took place. The first, on September 16, provided an overview of the workshop objectives. The second, on September 18, presented workshop results. Two interdisciplinary teams, composed of designers from various firms and disciplines and led by Alex Krieger of NBBJ and Kishore Varanasi of CBT Architects, each produced a draft comprehensive plan for the Beacon Yards site that fully leverages the city building opportunities of the proposed interchange realignment.


Team proposals
Team credits
Krieger/Mountjoy team
Alex Krieger, NBBJ
Alan Mountjoy, NBBJ
Kelly Lynema, NBBJ
Pablo Licari, NBBJ
Kevin Conant, NBBJ
Harry Mattison, Task Force Member
Herb Nolan, Soloman Foundation
Cynthia Smith, Halvorson Design Group
Wileen Kao, Halvorson Design Group
Connor Semler, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
Alex Davis, Utile, Inc.
Scott Turner, Nitsch Engineering
Varanasi team
Kishore Varanasi, CBT Architects
Ganesh Ramachandran, CBT Architects
Kristina Ricco, CBT Architecs
Yichin Zhu, CBT Architects
Matthew Urbanski, Michael Van Valkenberg Associates, Inc.
Chris Matthews, Michael Van Valkenberg Associates, Inc.
Kyle Jonasen, Utile, Inc.
Jason Schrieber, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates