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In collaboration with the City of Oklahoma City, the Office of James Burnett has selected the design team to assist in the $38M renovation of the 15-acre Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.... Read More

The Office of James Burnett was honored to be one of three firms selected to present an “Inside the Landscape Architect Studio” session at the 2009 ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo in Chicago, Illinois. Held at McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center, the national convention drew over 5,100 design professionals and offered a variety of educational sessions, project tours and product exhibits.... Read More

Woodall Rodgers, now serving as a dividing line between Downtown and Uptown, will soon be home to a new five-acre park. Yes, you heard correctly--a park on top of the freeway. The construction of Dallas' park follows a recent trend in America, a trend that involves parks and a relentless desire to build them, no matter what it takes. At a rate not seen since the City Beautiful Movement, cities are building parks. They are building parks on top of freeways, tearing down freeways and replacing them with parks, moving freeways underground to make way for parks, and even building parks on top of railways.... Read More

The Oklahoma City Council recently hired an architect to come up with a conceptual design for $38 million of improvements to the gardens — including work done to the lake, south entrance and park pavilion, as well as the potential addition of a park cafe, restaurant and perimeter streetscape... Read More

The Office of James Burnett has won the 2009 Texas ASLA Chapter Merit Award for the Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University and The Del Mar Beach House in Del Mar, California.... Read More