West End Square

The West End Square, located at the center of Dallas’ West End Historic District, presents an extraordinary opportunity to create a cutting edge, vibrant and world class public space – a next generation park that is both a great civic space and a model for innovation.

Today, many cities around the world are thinking about how technology should impact their public realm. Dallas’ deep roots in the arts, education, and technology innovation, as well as its commitment to become an internationally recognized ‘Smart City’, offer a tremendous setting for this new type of open space – one that integrates technology with landscape to create a park full of smart features.

Similar to the Smart Cities Initiative, shepherded by the West End’s own Dallas Innovation Alliance, we envision that the Smart Park brings technology and communication together with the park’s operations and use, and in doing so offer efficiency, flexibility, and new ways for people to interact in the public realm.

In addition to incorporating technology, the design of the West End Square also plays a significant role in sustainability by giving attention to urban ecology, increased biodiversity, and climate-adapted planting, helping to reduce the square’s consumptive footprint, and setting a precedent for future public spaces around Dallas.

Located in a very unique part of Dallas, the West End Square is an active showcase for local events, history and culture, food and entertainment; a model for urban livability for those around it; a facilitator of human wellbeing and environmental health; and a case study for cities around the world for how technology can enhance the public realm.

The design of the West End Square is one that seeks to create a public space that combines design excellence with technical ingenuity generating a bold vision for the West End that achieves the highest level of aspirations for the project – technologically, ecologically, and culturally.