

We Rallied and Built a Parklet - PARK(ing) Day 2016
PBR HAWAII & Associates, Inc. saw PARK(ing) DAY as a good opportunity for something fun that advocates improving urban livability through placemaking… something innately incorporated in what landscape architects do. We had missed our chance in 2015 to design and transform a parking stall so we were not about to let that slip by again. We narrowed down the selection of parking stalls to one in front of Lucky Belly on Smith Street because it met several criteria: 1) it’s close


Repurposed and Reinvigorated: HHF Planners Transforms Parking Spots into Public Spaces
There's a new park appearing in downtown Honolulu on September 16, but it'll be gone the next day. What, a disappearing park? For a second year, HHF Planners (HHF) is celebrating PARK(ing) Day by transforming a metered parking space in front of Dillingham Transportation Building on Bishop Street into a temporary public open space. PARK(ing) Day began in 2005 when an art and design studio rolled out lush green sod and placed a shade tree and wooden bench in a public park stall