![]() ![]() To highlight those events, Woltz’s team designed a contemplative space in the footprint of the original diner. Courtesy of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects The former location of the Pickrick Diner is now outlined with a steel perimeter, and three monumental piers were erected to represent the three students who protested at the diner. ![]() The protest led to a court case that resulted in upholding the historic legislation. Woltz and his team learned that the setting of the new project would include the original site of the Pickrick Diner, where three Black students were denied entry into the all-white diner one day after the Civil Rights Act was passed in July 1964. The park’s genesis was shaped by the project’s research phase. “This project makes that belief manifest for all who visit the site to see.” “It is firmly my belief that environmental justice and social justice are inextricably linked, and we cannot have one without the other,” Woltz told ELLE Decor in an e-mail. The space, then, aims to marry ecological justice with social justice. How can landscape design help people better understand history? That was the challenge that Thomas Woltz and his team at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBWLA) sought to answer with a thought-provoking new project that opened on April 21, timed with Earth Day this week.Īs part of a broader 80-acre green plan for the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), NBWLA transformed an area once dominated by pavement and buildings into a seven-acre park that provides a verdant commons for the campus community while commemorating an important site for the civil rights movement. ![]()
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