Landscape Restoration Project. Mia Lehrer + Associates

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1 Beverly Gardens Park Landscape Restoration Project

2 Consultant Lead and Landscape Architect Pre-Construction Consultant Matt Construction Conservation Consultant Silverlake Conservation LLC Water Feature Consultant Holdenwater Lighting Designer Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design Civil & Structural Engineer Barbara L. Hall, P.E., Inc. Electrical Engineer Gotama Building Engineer CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS Jeff Kolin, City Manager David Lightner, Deputy City Manager Steven Zoet, Director of Community Services Alan Schneider, Director of Project Administration Charles Ackerman, Project Administrator Brad Meyerowitz, Recreation Services Manager Ken Pfalzgraf, Parks & Urban Forest Manager David Garrard, General Parks Supervisor Stephen Hough, Parks Supervisor FRIENDS OF BEVERLY GARDENS PARK

3 1924 Today s Presentation Community Engagement Project Overview Canon Beverly Garden Restoration Walden Carmelita Garden Restoration Closing Comments Elizabeth Barlow Rogers President of the Foundation of Landscape Studies President of the Central Park Conservancy

4 Community Engagement Open Houses Art Fair Booth

5 Community Engagement Walking Tours Special Presentations

6 Community Engagement Receptions Special Events

7 Restoration is defined as the act or process of accurately depicting the form, features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features period. from the restoration Length: 1.9 Miles Size: 18.8 Acres Blocks: 23 Park Blocks (w/ church block) Fountains: 4 Water Features Pergolas: 4 Pergolas Gardens: 2 Rose Gardens 1 Palm Garden 1 Cactus Garden The limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other coderequired work to make properties functional is appropriate within a restoration project.

8 CANON BEVERLY GARDEN Featuring the Lily Pond and Circular Fountain WALDEN CARMELITA GARDEN Featuring the Electric Fountain

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12 RESTORATION FOCUS Restore Lily Pond BEVERLY DRIVE CANON DRIVE Restore Circular Fountain Retain Photo Opportunity Area New Planting At Water Features Bollard Lighting at Pathways Accent Uplights at Specimen Trees Scheme B SANTA MONICA BLVD.

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16 Lighting to provide safety and aesthetics Careful planning to avoid any light intrusion into the neighboring properties

17 Bollard Lighting Retrofit LED Lamp for Art Lighting In Grade Light For Specimen Trees near SM Blvd. In Grade Light For Trees at Circular Fountain Acorn Style Street Lights

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19 Podocarpus macrophyllus Yew Pine Ilex aquifolium Blue Girl Holly Carissa macrocarpa Natal Plum Clytostoma callstegiodes Violet Trumpet Vine Trachelospermum jasminoides Star Jasmine Espalier

20 Phormium tenax Flamingo Flax Phormium tenax Duet Flax Dioon edule Mexican Cycad Rosa sp Carpet Amber Rhaphiolepis indica Clara White Indian Hawthorn Strelitzia reginae Bird of Paradise

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23 RESTORATION FOCUS Restore Electric Fountain Improve Donor Wall Hedge Screening at Residential Edge Modify Pedestrian Path for Safe Crossing Bollard Lighting at Pathway Accent Uplights at Corner Planting Electric Fountain WALDEN DRIVE SANTA MONICA BLVD

24 ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN Year Built: 1931 Fountain Architect: Ralph Flewelling

25 RESTORE AND REPAIR PAVING IN SITU Clean Tiles with Aqueous and Solvent Based Cleaners Losses in Tiles to be Filled with Material Reproduction of Some Tiles Patches to be Toned to Mimic Existing Sealing to Protect from Excessive Water Penetration

26 32 CALIFORNIA HISTORY SCENE TERRA COTTA PAVER TILES YELLOW GLAZED TILES and BLUE GLAZED TILES Clean Tiles with Aqueous and Solvent Based Cleaners Losses in Tiles to be Filled with Material Reproduction of Some Tiles Patches to be Toned to Mimic Existing Sealing to Protect from Excessive Water Penetration

27 BLUE AND WHITE MAJOLICA TILES and TERRA COTTA COPING TILES Removal of 640 Original Tiles to be Stored by the City of Beverly Hills Reproduce and Install New but Accurate Reproductions of Original Majolica Tiles Reproductions to Mimic the Originals as closely as Possible in Dimension, Pattern, Color and Sheen Use a Stable Finish for a Seamless Mortar and Grout Bed Additional Tiles to be Produced for Future Replacement Needs Reproduce 160 Terra Cotta Coping Tiles that Mimic the Size, Thickness and Color of the Original Coping Tiles

28 STORY OF CALIFORNIA DEPICTED ON BAS RELIEF, 1931 Story Begins With a Depiction of the Sun Early Native Americans that lived in California before the Spanish conquest Padres working for the Missions Life in California during the 18th Century Coming of the Fremont and the Americans Immigration of the Americans from the East Discovery of Gold in California Struggle of the Spanish and Mexicans to make California a State

29 CENTRAL CAST STONE ELEMENT Cleaned with Conservation Grade Detergent Some Powerwashing may be Implemented Biological Growth to be Treated with Biocide Cracks in Stone to be Injected with Liquid Mortar Losses in Stone to be Filled with Inert Reversible Patching Materials Tinted to Mimic Surrounding Materials in Color and Texture

30 GABRIELINO INDIAN RAIN PRAYER Indian Holding a Bowl of Water Spilling into the Basin Below Wolf Figurines at the Corners Spewing Water Clear Interior Pipes for Fountain Water to Flow Again

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32 16 Lights at Upper Basin Shown in Original Drawings Replace Incandescent Light Fixtures with LED Fixtures LEDs Lights Last Longer Thus Lower Long Term Maintenance

33 FOUNTAIN MECHANICAL SYSTEM Control Water Over Spray with Updated Wind Control System Clean Existing Trench Drain Surround at Lower Basin Replace Auto-Fill System Install New Circulation Suction and Discharge Points in Basin Remove Ad Hoc Skimmer/Discharge PVC System

34 CAST CONCRETE BENCHES WITH BAS RELIEF INSERTS Clean Concrete with Conservation Grade Detergent Biological Growth to be Treated with Biocide Exposed Rebar to Filled and Coated Losses in Concrete to be Filled with Inert Reversible Patching Material Tinted or Toned to Mimic Surrounding Material in Color and Texture

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36 Lighting to provide safety and aesthetics Careful planning to avoid any light intrusion into the neighboring properties

37 Bollard Lighting Donor Wall Accent Light In Grade Light For Specimens at Corners Acorn Style Street Lights

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39 Potentilla Sunset Rosa sp Carpet Amber Grevillea lanigera Coastal Gem Coastal Gem Grevillea Laurus nobilis Sweet Bay Euonymus fortunei Ivory Jade Creeping Mirror Plant

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