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From Parking Lot to Campus Gateway
From Parking Lot to Campus Gateway

Fontaine Plaza, at Austin Community College's Highland Campus, was featured in the Landscape Architecture Specifier News June edition.


Fontaine Plaza is the gateway to a reinvigorated campus exemplifying adaptive reuse. Formerly the entrance to the expanse of asphalt parking built to serve the 1970s-era Highland Mall, the plaza welcomes students and visitors into a series of pedestrian-oriented outdoor rooms in a space once dominated by vehicular traffic. Now a vibrant mixed-use development anchored by Austin Community College, the design projects a vision for the future grounded in environmental sustainability and social equity.


Lead Designer & Landscape Architect — dwg.

Civil Engineer — Big Red Dog (now WGI)

MEP Engineer — Bay and Associates

Structural Engineer — Cardno (now Stantec)

General Contractor — Strata Landscape

Lighting Fabrication — Ion Art

Irrigation Consultant — James Pole Irrigation Consultants

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