Wallace Roberts & Todd
WRT (Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC, formerly known as Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd (WMRT)) is an urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and architecture firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{cite book |title=Contemporary Trends in Landscape Architecture |last=Cantor |first=Steve L. |year=1996 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |isbn=0-471-28791-1 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Wb9Zxw5GT0C&dq=%22Wallace+Roberts+%26+Todd%22&pg=PA274 }} WRT is a collaborative practice of city and regional planners, urban designers, landscape architects and architects with additional offices in San Francisco,{{cite news |title=Artists Sought to Aid Balboa Park Growth |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61328305.html?dids=61328305:61328305&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+21%2C+1991&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Artists+Sought+to+Aid+Balboa+Park+Growth&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103110631/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61328305.html?dids=61328305:61328305&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+21,+1991&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Artists+Sought+to+Aid+Balboa+Park+Growth&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 3, 2012 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1991-06-21 |accessdate=27 December 2008 }} Miami, Lake Placid, and Dallas.
Founded in 1963 as Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd (WMRT){{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Environmental Science |last=Alexander |first=David E. |author2=Fairbridge, Rhodes Whitmore |year=1999 |publisher=Springer |location=Germany |isbn=0-412-74050-8 |page=198 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0iX2z48qkUC&dq=%22Wallace+Roberts+%26+Todd%22+%22Wallace,+McHarg,+Roberts+%26+Todd%22&pg=PA198 }}{{cite web |url=http://pensacolacitygov.com/upload/images/CRA/PDFs/WRT.pdf |title=Master Plan for the Urban Core Redevelopment Area |accessdate=28 December 2008 |work=Pensacola, Florida |date=2008-09-10 |page=3 }} by David A. Wallace,{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Petrunia |title=Eminent architect dies in double suicide |url=http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=4363_0_24_12885_C |work=Archinect |date=2004-07-20 |accessdate=28 December 2008 }} Ian McHarg,{{cite web|url=http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek02/tw0322/0322tw4mcharg.htm |title=Happy Spring! A Gift to the Profession |accessdate=28 December 2008 |work=American Institute of Architects |date=April 2002|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427145959/http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek02/tw0322/0322tw4mcharg.htm |archivedate=April 27, 2007 }} William H. Roberts,{{cite web|url=http://www.tclf.org/auction/2006/roberts.htm |title=William Roberts |accessdate=28 December 2008 |work=The Cultural Landscape Foundation |year=2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929104358/http://www.tclf.org/auction/2006/roberts.htm |archivedate=September 29, 2006 }} and Thomas A. Todd, the firm had over 200 employees at its peak.{{cite book |title=Who's Green 2007 |last=Berrisford |first=Michael |year=2006 |publisher=Ecotone Publishing |isbn=0-9749033-8-8 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SsT-NuD_u0C&dq=%22%27Wallace+Roberts+%26+Todd%22+awards&pg=PA47 }}
Design projects
WRT headed the design of Abuja, the new capital of Nigeria,Elleh, Nnamdi, Abuja, the single most ambitious urban design project of the 20th century [https://books.google.com/books?id=huHVAAAAMAAJ&q=+%22Wallace%2C+McHarg%2C+Roberts+and+Todd%22] and completed design projects for Inner Harbor in Baltimore. It has also done waterfront projects for the cities of Norfolk and Richmond in Virginia, as well as projects for Indianapolis, Indiana, Honolulu, and Dallas.{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Barnes |authorlink=Tom Barnes (American journalist)|title=Five finalists picked for riverfront designs |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000121riverlife7.asp |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |publisher=PG Publishing Company |date=2000-01-21 |accessdate=28 December 2008 }} It redesigned Kakaako Waterfront Park in Honolulu, and designed Hale Koa Hotel and Fort DeRussy Military Reservation in the Waikiki area of Honolulu.{{cite news |first=Jerry |last=Tune |title=Philadelphia firm lands Kakaako design contract |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/04/08/business/story1.html |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |publisher=Black Press |date=1999-04-08 |accessdate=28 December 2008 }} WRT has also done a study of renovating the Ocean Beach in New London County, Connecticut.{{cite news |first=Julie |last=Miller |title=What's Ahead for Ocean Beach? |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E5DB143CF93AA25757C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |work=The New York Times |date=1998-04-19 |accessdate=28 December 2008 }}
WRT is drafting architectural plans for three {{convert|400|acre|km2|adj=on}} parks along the Floyds Fork in Louisville, Kentucky, which is believed to be the largest urban park project in the United States.{{cite news |first=Marcus |last=Green |title=Ideas gathered for park project |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071008/NEWS01/110080021 |work=The Courier-Journal |date=2007-10-08 |accessdate=28 December 2008 }}
Awards
In 2011, the American Planning Association named WRT as the recipient of its inaugural award, National Planning Award for Achievement in Planning, a recognition for its continual progressive and innovative planning practices. The American Association of Landscape Architects also recognized WRT in 2010 with its National Award for its influential body of work. In 1996, the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts gave Wallace Roberts & Todd an Honor Award for its proposed design of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail.{{cite news |first=David W. |last=Chen |title=Light-Rail Proposal Wins Award for Design |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE4DA1E39F930A35750C0A960958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/A/Awards,%20Decorations%20and%20Honors |work=The New York Times |date=1996-03-03 |accessdate=28 December 2008 }} The competition for the award included 300 entries, and WRT was one of eleven who received the award.
In 2000, WRT received two awards from Waterfront Center for its role in planning the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway.{{cite news |first=Peter J. |last=Sampson |title=Hudson Walkway Creators Receive Planning Awards |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22609111.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022185729/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22609111.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-22 |work=The Record |date=1994-12-06 |accessdate=28 December 2008 }}
In 2004, WRT received an Award of Honor from the American Society of Landscape Architects for its design of parks near the Anacostia River.{{cite book |title=Almanac of Architecture & Design, 2005 |last=Cramer |first=James P. |author2=Yankopolus, Jennifer Evans |year=2005 |publisher=Greenway Communications |isbn=0-9675477-9-2 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1j_KxJeqpsUC&dq=%22%27Wallace+Roberts+%26+Todd%22+awards&pg=PA80 }}
In 2008, WRT received the Charter Award from Congress for the New Urbanism for its project titled "[http://www.wrtdesign.com/article-Special-Feature--A-Civic-Vision-for-the-Central-Delaware-34.html A Civic Vision for the Central Delaware]".{{cite web |url=http://www.cnu.org/awards/winners |title=The 2008 Winners of the Charter Awards |accessdate=28 December 2008 |year=2008 |work=Congress for the New Urbanism |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080731123053/http://www.cnu.org/awards/winners |archivedate = 31 July 2008}}
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.wrtdesign.com/}}
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Category:Architecture firms based in Pennsylvania