Urban and Sustainable Design

A DYE DESIGN established the basic design premise for this multi–award-winning LEED-certified transit plaza as “the intersection of the desert and the city.” The design interprets the desert geology of Tempe Butte onto the plaza hardscape and with the plant materials. The firm designed the green roof and adjacent light rail station near the ASU campus. Artist collaboration: Lorna Jordan.

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This multi–award-winning project, built in 2007, is the completion of A Dye Design’s committed nine-year effort, from initial master planning to construction administration. The firm’s design role included site design, undercrossing aesthetics, Biltmore and Esplanade streetscape frontage, shade analysis, and public/stakeholder facilitation. Artist collaboration in pedestrian tunnel: Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt.

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A DYE DESIGN, the Landscape Architect of Record, was responsible for the hardscape, landscape, and furnishings for plazas and streetscapes. The project included incorporating artist elements, living wall, and over structure planting. A DYE DESIGN also completed the construction observation.

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In the heart of Downtown Phoenix located between north and southbound Light Rail Station, A DYE DESIGN re-visioned the 1.5 acre site known as Central Station. The design utilizes existing materials, emphasizes shade, reduces heat absorption, and specifies permeable pavements. It features LED paver lighting to aid nighttime wayfinding as well as permanent seating.

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Transit Centers and Utility Buildings. 22 center street, side street and split-station platforms, 14 Traction Power Substations, 7 Signals buildings, and 5 Transit Centers. Construction documentation for some hardscape and all landscape/irrigation design. Coordination with each line section station finish architect and artists, park & ride, substation, and transit center engineering consultants.

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Angela Dye was part of a collaborative team with public artist Vito Acconci and architect Doug Sydnor that created a multimodal (bus, trolley, auto, pedestrian, bicycle, horse and buggy) facility in Scottsdale's downtown. The executed design was based on Vito Acconci's "Raised Ground" concept. Improvements included a clock tower, bus bays with shelters, passenger services buildings, and public restrooms.

In an effort to create shade in downtown Phoenix, Angela introduced a Mesquite bosque plaza on nearly one-acre in front of the Phoenix municipal courts building.

General Services Administration, Pacific Rim Region. Developed streetscape elements for Broadway Boulevard and Scott Avenue with hardened security (moderate risk) consistent with Downtown Tucson guidelines on a National Register of Historic Places (1983) neoclassical building (1929). Total cost of project: $8,817,000.00. Rededicated November 2008. See Awards under “news”.

The first of its kind in Tempe, Angela’s design helped pave the way for project types like this in the Valley. This project features pedestrian improvements and enhancements to a one-mile section of a busy and multimodal street connecting neighborhoods to downtown and ASU.

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