The Cambier Park Band Shell is an award-winning renovation project for the most important park and cultural center in Naples. PK Studios won the commission to take an existing park bandshell and create a state-of-the-art facility and centerpiece for the City.

The new band shell serves as a home to all types of performances from big-band concerts to Shakespeare in the Park, and can entertain audiences as large as 7,000 people.

To cover the expanded stage and withstand 80 tons of wind uplift, a polyester fabric roof was used, which transfers loads to foundation pilings …

Jeff Curl, landscape architect at PK Studios, has been recently invited to participate as a blogger for Naples Daily News. Jeff’s new blog, entitled Design Renaissance and Beyond, got off to a quick start a few days ago.
Here is a sampling of the first few posts on the blog:

Where I’m coming from (Jeff’s background and qualifications)
Democracy or Economic Anarchy? (Amendment 4 and how it could change Naples development forever)
The Power of Place in a Naples Renaissance (Past, present, and future of Naples design and how we can improve it)
Our Sense of (Parking) Place (Evaluating …

The process of designing anything is an elusive one. When it comes to communities and structures that are, in the span of one lifetime, permanent – it becomes even more difficult.
One of our favorite quotes regarding design comes from the great Louis Kahn, who summed up the design of a building in this beautiful and thought-provoking statement:
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
Architects are often viewed as creative types and ‘designers,’ hired …