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AN AIRPORT PARK BY SUPERMASS STUDIO GREW IN AN UNEXPECTED DIRECTION.

The [drawing] is for multi-trunk, like serviceberries and birch trees, and they use real preserved wood trunks. They were able to do that because they’re smaller—they’re about 18 to 20 feet. You cannot use real trees and create a 30-foot tree. It shows the base plate and its concrete-filled bucket, and I think that was for stability. So it took three big guys to just barely pass it over the 18 inches. It was very heavy.—TAEWOOK CHA, FASLA A chance to design a small landscape inside a massive infrastructure project eight weeks out from the start of construction might have scared off some landscape architects, but Taewook Cha, FASLA, of Supermass Studio recognized an opportunity. The six-year, $8 billion redevelopment of New York’s LaGuardia Airport included a little site for…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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