1998 Excellence in Highway Design Category 6 - Highway Related Projects Merit Award
Earthquake Park Interpretive Facility
Anchorage, Alaska
Designer: Tryck Nyman Hayes, Inc., Anchorage
Contractors: KOHO Contracting, Anchorage
This project conveys the history of a major natural event that helped shape the history of Anchorage and of Alaska. The effects of the 1964 quake are intimately visible at this location. A multi-disciplined team designed a pedestrian experience that showcases the "calm to chaos" character of the earth's transformation during the quake.