NOMA Sculpture Garden Site Engineering

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden was designed to be an outdoor display setting for a collection of sculptures. The garden was commissioned by the New Orleans Museum of Art to display sculptures donated by Sydney and Walda Besthoff. The garden includes three unique and different entranceways to the multi-acre site. The main entranceway consists of a plaza between two steel and concrete pavillions. Additional design features of the garden include foundations for approximately forty-five sculptures, three pedestrian bridges over existing lagoons, paved walking paths, a reflecting pond with pumped water overflowing a weir, steel perimeter fencing, and relocation of an existing amusement train of these features. The project was built in a developed area of New Orleans City Park consistign of established live oak trees and lagoons. It included a study by a biologist to determine the effect of the project design on aquatic life based on the recommendations of the biologist.