The Robert L. B. Tobin Land Bridge at Phil Hardberger Park, the initial dual-purpose bridge in the united state, has actually won the American Culture of Landscape Architects Honor Honor for General Style.
Finished in 2020, the land bridge extends 175 feet throughout Wurzbach Parkway on the city’s North Side. It reconnects a bisected system of Hardberger Park, brings back an environmental shelter along the lengthiest creek hallway in Bexar Area and decreases website traffic accidents with wild animals.
” The bridge fits both wild animals and human beings,” claimed Melissa Kazen, executive supervisor for the Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy. “There might be various other twin crossings (in various other cities) currently, however we were the initial.”
The ASLA Honor Honor, introduced on Sept. 5, will certainly exist to land bridge engineers Stimson Workshop in October at the yearly ASLA Seminar in New Orleans.
” We laid out to develop something greater than framework– an expansion of the land, a brand-new home for indigenous varieties and a location for individuals to reconnect,” Stimson owner Stephen Stimson claimed in a declaration. “This honor attests that objective.”
Opening to the general public in 2010, Phil Hardberger Park existed as 2 parcels with 6 lanes of Wurzbach Parkway cutting with the landscape, triggering deadly accidents with wild animals.
The land bridge was funded with a voter-approved $13 million bond in 2017 and $10 million in gives and contributions. The bridge opened up in December 2020.
The ASLA honors web page compliments the land bridge for branching out the environment with greater than 50 reestablished varieties.

” Prior to the initial wedding anniversary of the bridge,” the ASLA honors web page states, “every creature varieties understood to live within the park was caught on the land bridge’s route electronic cameras, consisting of bobcat, white-tailed deer and ringtail feline.”
The web page consists of remark from the honors court: “This task makes an exceptionally uphill struggle of developing a practical landscape on framework; producing an inviting room over a freeway; stabilizing the requirements of human beings and non-humans alike; and attaching environmental pieces look simple. This is an excellent environmental financial investment by the area, and a well-executed task by the Landscape Designer and style group.”
Kazen claimed the bridge has actually won state and local honors. Acknowledgment from ASLA, nevertheless, is the bridge’s initial nationwide honor.
” I wish this will certainly aid various other neighborhoods address environment fragmentation and wild animals car accidents in a cutting-edge means,” she claimed. “They can check out what we have actually done below in San Antonio.”