| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Québec, Québec, Canada | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 2005-2008 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Beauregard, Elise | en_US |
| dc.date | 2005-2008 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-16T17:51:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-12-16T17:51:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-2008 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 250565 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 2976 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/166198 | |
| dc.description | Benches on boardwalk with native plant landscaping (grasses and Rudbeckia) forming the green roof; The firms credited with the project are Gagnon Letellier Cyr Mathieu Ricard, Architects and DAA Daniel Arbour & Associates Landscape Architects and Urban Design. From 1990-2010 Beauregard was a senior partner at IBI-DAA (Daniel Arbour & Associates) group; since 2011 she has an independent practice (Elise Beauregard architecte paysagiste LEED et Collaborateurs Inc.) focused on landscape architecture, urban design and urban ecology. Located along the boulevard Champlain, near the Notre-Dame de la Garde Park, Brown Basin is the place where General Wolfe and his men landed at Quebec in 1759 before the famous Battle of the Plains of Abraham. The park opened as part of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec, in 2008. The park features a rebuilt quay, fishing pier, shoreline restoration, an interpretive center, pedestrian and bike paths, ice rink, and a promenade linking it to the Plains of Abraham (park to the north). Source: Ville de Québec [city website]; http://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/ (accessed 6/30/2014) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | wood; steel; paving material; plant material | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | landscape | en_US |
| dc.subject | City planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | parks (recreation areas) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twenty-first century | en_US |
| dc.title | Brown Basin Park, Quebec City | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Le parc du Bassin Brown, Ville de Québec | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-BEAE-LPBB-B33 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Canadian | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling), gardening | en_US |
| vra.worktype | parks (recreation areas) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | visitors' center | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Elise Beauregard (Canadian landscape architect, born ca. 1961) | en_US |
