Line by Line
Abstract
The East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park site in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is a major part of the city’s treated sewage effluent (TSE) program. The park was designed by the Salem, Massachusetts, office of Landworks Studio, founded by the principal Michael Blier, FASLA, in 1996. The firm is intensely local, New England salt and sun. It is also increasingly international, digital, and cross-border/cross-cross-culture collaborative. The park is now in. The office is 14 people. Landworks worked through design development phases, with construction documentation done locally, following Saudi development norms. Blier and Varutti often trade sketches back and forth to figure things out, to test things out. But the blood, sweat, and tears have their rewards, like many things done the hard way. ‘I think the sketch—to be able to show the client really puts the clientreally puts them at ease,” Blier said.