2025 Honor Award
Analysis, Planning, Research and Communications
Interplay Park
Peoria, Illinois
Landscape Architect:
Terrain Work
Project Team:
Client: KDB Group
Photo Credit(s):
Image 1: Aerial Rendering, TERRAIN WORK (aerial rendering base image captured by Mouve Film, LLC)
Image 2: Historic Timeline, TERRAIN WORK
Image 3: Diagram, TERRAIN WORK. Aerial Photos, Google Earth. Historic Photos, Peoria Library Archives, Peoria, Illinois
Image 4: Diagrams, TERRAIN WORK. Aerial Photo, Google Earth. Aerial Rendering, TERRAIN WORK
Image 5: Diagrams and Mapping, TERRAIN WORK
Image 6: Plan Rendering, TERRAIN WORK
Image 7: Rendering, TERRAIN WORK
Image 8: Aerial Rendering and diagrams, TERRAIN WORK (aerial rendering base image captured by Mouve Film, LLC)
Image 9: Rendering, TERRAIN WORK
Image 10: Diagrams, TERRAIN WORK
Image 11: Rendering, TERRAIN WORK
Image 12: Rendering, TERRAIN WORK
Image 13: Website Survey Screen Captures, Web Development by Grindstone. Photos, TERRAIN WORK
About the Project:
InterPlay Park is an intergenerational park for the people of Peoria that reconnects communities divided by the construction of the I-74 Interstate corridor. The park hosts an array of play activities that support the surrounding neighborhoods, while encouraging new interactions between varying age groups and communities. InterPlay Park gives Peoria a new civic ground in the heart of the city that enhances physical, cognitive, and social experience by bringing the people together in a space that had once been divided. The central green space will encourage a walkable downtown and spur new investment in the adjacent neighborhoods. Surrounded by multiple existing community organizations, non-profits, and healthcare businesses, the park can extend the mission of community-oriented development to public spaces in Peoria.