South Boston Maritime Park

South Boston Maritime Park is a public green space in the Seaport District with a great lawn, seating under tall pergolas and a three-season cafe with outdoor seating. A bosque of shade trees, special lighting and a nautical theme run throughout, with interpretive inscriptions and sculptural works that evoke the area’s maritime heritage. The directory lists it as a picnic spot and green space.

The Massachusetts Port Authority commissioned the park as the centerpiece of its mixed-use redevelopment of the South Boston waterfront. Landscape architecture firm Halvorson led the design of the park and the adjacent roadway and streetscapes, with Machado Silvetti designing the pergolas and cafe. Artist Carlos Dorrien created the granite gateway sculptures, and Ellen Driscoll contributed kinetic sculptures. Civil engineering was handled by TAMS Consultants/EarthTech, now part of AECOM.

What to Know

• The park won a 2006 National Honor Award for Design from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
• It also received 2004 Honor Awards from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and the Boston Society of Architects.
• Ripman Lighting Consultants designed the lighting, and Flanders + Associates created the environmental graphics.
• The Massachusetts Port Authority owns the park.