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Toyota Headquarters

November 08, 2017 by Travis Ward in Design

North of Dallas in the suburb of Plano there has been an explosion of corporate development known as Legacy. Mid-rise office buildings and company headquarters relocation has led to massive construction projects. Toyota's $350 million US headquarters project is not an exception. The buildings are designed by Dallas-based firm Corgan and the grounds are designed by the Office of James Burnett, the same mastermind behind the highly-lauded Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas. 

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November 08, 2017 /Travis Ward
Toyota Headquarters, Plano, Texas, corporate campus, Legacy Plano, Corgan, Office of James Burnett, Klyde Warren Park, LEED, Achillea millefolium, Lagerstroemia, Yarrow, Moonshine Yarrow, Crape Myrtle, Rudbeckia hirta, Black Eyed Susan, Muhlenbergia capillaris, Gulf Muhly Grass, Stipa tenuissima, Mexican Feathergrass, Anisacanthus quadrifidus wrightii, Hummingbird Bush, Leuders, Bouteloua gracilis, Blonde Ambition, Blue Grama, White Cloud Gulf Muhly, Schizachyrium scoparium, Little Bluestem, Chasmanthium latifolium, Inland Seaoats, Perovskia atriplicifolia, Russian Sage, Panicum, Switchgrass, Heuchera, Coral Bells, Carex divulsa, Berkeley Sedge, Sedge grass, Gaura, Trachelospermum asiaticum, Asian Jasmine, Dryopteris ludoviciana, Southern Wood Fern, living wall, rooftop garden, courtyard, permeable paving, LEED Platinum, native plants, low impact design
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Oak Point Nature Preserve

January 26, 2016 by Travis Ward in Plant Hunt

In Plano, a suburban city in the Dallas metropolitan area, the community has purchased 800 acres of farmland and utility right-of-ways to create a sprawling, multi-use park. The design of the park is great in its simplicity as it's mostly open with run and bike trails. The focus of the park is preserving the land and restoring the property to its pre-human existence. The park is also home to one of the few native prairie remnants still intact in Collin County. 

Dormant foliage of summer's past can be interesting and beautiful during cold, winter months, but difficult to properly identify. This post will highlight the prairie plants of Oak Point with identifications when possible.

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January 26, 2016 /Travis Ward
Plano, Collin County, Oak Point Nature Preserve, Dallas, Park, Prairie, Helianthus, Sunflower, Packera, obovata, Golden Groundsel, Symphoricarpos, orbiculatus, Coralberry, Gleditsia, triacanthos, Honeylocust, Pyrus, calleryana, Pear, Symphyotrichum, ericoides, Heath Aster, Rubus, trivialis, Dewberry, Quercus, macrocarpa, Burr Oak, Bur Oak, Oak, Prunus, Plum, Tridens Albescens, White Tridens, grass, Asclepias asperula, Asclepias, Milkweed, Bothriochloa, laguroides, Physalis, paper lanterns, Andropogon, glomeratus, Bushy Bluestem, Silver Bluestem, Bluestem, Agalinis heterophylla, Prairie Agalinis, Xanthium strumarium, Cocklebur, Desmanthus, Desmanthus illinoensis, Illinois Bundleflower, Salvia farinaceae, Mealy Blue Sage, mushrooms, Cedar Elm, Elm, Rowlett Creek, Native plants, Texas native plants
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