Frisco makeover: 5.7-acre park brings art, greenery to Dallas suburb

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Frisco makeover: 5.7-acre park brings art, greenery to Dallas suburb
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The new greenspace was modeled on Klyde Warren Park.

Recently, while doing some research for this story, I ran a Google search for Frisco, and the first image that popped up was a dusky aerial view of the flyover interchange where the Sam Rayburn and Dallas North tollways meet. A technological feat? Sure. Visually dramatic? Perhaps. But it’s still a highway interchange, and that this was the first representation of the city I found is illustrative of a continuing challenge facing recent American boomburbs, and Frisco in particular.

The shared DNA between Kaleidoscope and Klyde Warren begins with the language of the public-private partnership that governs their respective operations. “We basically copied a lot of things,” says Hall of the relationship between the parks. That includes the selection of the Office of James Burnett as landscape architect.

In the park’s center is one of the more inventive and elaborate playgrounds in the region, one that features “messy” play areas that allow children to explore all of their senses. A curving mass-timber structure serves as an armature around which a circuit of slides, tunnels and climbing features — boulders, logs, nets, water — are organized. The structure houses bathrooms and a rental

The park’s most dramatic element is a whimsical, polychromatic installation by Boston-based artist Janet Echelman that flutters, waves, sways and otherwise hovers above the landscaped “Arts Plaza” at the northern end of the park.as it is called, is composed of some 89 miles of braided fiber netting held aloft by steel stanchions that suspend it, at its highest points, 65 feet above ground.

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