West Palm Beach Waterfront

In 1984, Doug Suisman and fellow architect James Mary O'Connor won an Honorable Mention at the national competition to redesign the central waterfront of West Palm Beach, Florida. They proposed a transformed lakefront park, with a new urban center at its core. The scheme extended Clematis, the principal shopping street, to Lake Worth via a sequence of urban spaces. The waterfront was envisioned as a series of green islands, culminating in the Ecology Gardens at the center.