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PROJECT PROFILE
Award-winning Projects Use Genuine
Clay Pavers to Complement the
Colors of Their Surroundings
More than 700 miles and a host of other differences,
including favorite foods, accents and weather, to name
just a few, separate Spartanburg, South Carolina from
Chicago, Illinois. The two cities do, however, share the
distinction of having award-winning hardscape proj-
ects that make extensive use of genuine clay pavers.
At Converse College in Spartanburg, Johnson Pla-
za, an entryway plaza and garden project, won Best
in Class for Paving/Landscaping in the 2015 Bricks in
Architecture competition by the Brick Industry As-
sociation, an industry trade group. The conventional
clay pavers are Courtyard Beale Street, while comple-
menting face brick is Old Hampton Modular, both by
Pine Hall Brick Company.
At the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, a new west
entrance won a Silver Award in Paving/Landscaping
in the recent Brick in Architecture competition. The
architects specified StormPave permeable clay pav-
ers, also by Pine Hall Brick Company.
Both designs, although separated by both dis-
tance and purpose, use the color and texture of gen-
uine clay pavers to complement the colors of their
surroundings.
JOHNSON PLAZA
Designed by SeamonWhiteside, a Greenville, S.C.-
based civil engineering and landscape architecture
firm, Johnson Plaza was commissioned by the presi-
dent of the college to celebrate the all-female college's
125th anniversary.
Clint Rigsby, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP, a senior land-
scape architect who oversaw the design, said the John-
son Plaza hardscape and its surrounding garden were
meant to be a transformational project for the college,
and an improvement over what had been there before.
The idea behind the elliptical plaza was simple:
Find a way to encourage pedestrian movement into
and across what had been an unsightly and inac-
cessible landscape at the "front door" of the college
campus.
Given in honor of Susan Phifer Johnson (class of
1965) and George Dean Johnson Jr., two longtime
friends and generous supporters of the college, the
■ BY WALT STEELE
