美国俄克拉荷马城项目180公共工程项目的一个关键组成部分，未充分利用的开放空间改造成高度规划的城市公园和市中心的公共生活中心。在它开业20年后，公园的水晶桥温室，湖泊和花园是受欢迎的肖像摄影;但有限的可及性，缺乏编程和公众认为花园是不安全的阻止重复访问。詹姆斯·伯内特办公室与一个广泛的公共和私人利益相关者联盟合作，重新设想公园作为一个充满活力和标志性的城市的公民和文化活动的设置。
公园的框架发展，以保存300多个高价值的标本树，并直接现场雨水到翻新的中央湖，在那里它补充灌溉。沿着花园的边缘可以渗透和吸引游客，游客可以通过一条绿树成荫的长廊，穿过湖上边缘的植物园。安静，阴暗的护堤在西北俯瞰28000平方英尺大草坪和雕塑的带壳由Gensler的大卫爱泼斯坦;沿着哈德森大道向西，一个树丛的树枝树缓冲了街道，同时提供灵活的花园空间，以支持俄克拉何马城的一年一度的艺术节。在南方，一个互动的水景特征标志着进入一个儿童花园，平衡主动游戏与自然学习。一个狗公园，一个喷泉广场，和一个户外用餐餐厅激活了东部的网站。
Myriad花园基金会的广泛编程利用公园的花园房间全年的音乐会和戏剧，婚礼和舞会，体育和健身活动。自2011年重新启用以来，该公园每年迎接超过一百万游客并催化了市中心的经济发展，赢得了ULI城市开放空间奖。
A key component in Oklahoma City’s Project 180 public works program, the renovation of Myriad Botanical Gardens has transformed 15 quiet, underutilized acres of open space into a highly programmed urban park and the center of downtown public life. Two decades after its original opening, the park’s Crystal Bridge conservatory, lake and gardens were popular for portrait photography; but limited accessibility, a lack of programming and a public perception that the garden was unsafe discouraged repeat visits. The Office of James Burnett worked with a broad coalition of public and private stakeholders to re-envision the park as a vibrant and iconic setting for the city’s civic and cultural events.
The framework of the park evolved to preserve over 300 high-value specimen trees and to direct on-site stormwater to the renovated central lake, where it supplements irrigation. Permeable and inviting along its edges, the garden draws visitors onto a tree-lined promenade that loops through botanical plantings around the lake’s upper rim. Quiet, shaded berms to the northwest overlook the 28,000 SF Great Lawn and a sculptural bandshell by Gensler’s David Epstein; along Hudson Avenue to the west, a grove of sycamores trees buffers the street while providing flexible garden space to support Oklahoma City’s annual Festival of the Arts. To the south, an interactive water feature marks the entry to a children’s garden that balances active play with natural learning. A dog park, a fountain plaza, and a restaurant with outdoor dining enliven the eastern portion of the site.
Extensive programming by the Myriad Garden Foundation utilizes the park’s garden rooms year-round for concerts and plays, weddings and galas, sports and fitness events. Since its 2011 re-opening, the park has welcomed more than a million visitors annually and catalyzed downtown economic development, earning it a 2015 ULI Urban Open Space Award.
