In creating the town green and an overarching landscape plan for the new town of WaterColor, Florida, Nelson-Byrd Landscape Architects let the site's diverse native vegetation take the lead role.
Some might have considered it blasphemyespecially here in the Florida Panhandle, the high altar of the traditional town planning movement-to make a statement so patently untraditional as the design of Cerulean Park. But Warren Byrd, ASLA, believed he was answering to a higher authority in his scheme for the main public space at WaterColor, the latest resort town to spring up beside the pristine white beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
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