Guthrie Medical Center
Ithaca, NY
Waterfront | Development
The Guthrie Medical Group’s brand new Ithaca campus is the first of many exciting developments in the city’s rapidly changing Waterfront District. Whitham Planning Design Landscape Architecture provided master planning, wayfinding signage, landscape design, and construction support services for this tranformative project at the mouth of Cascadilla Creek and Cayuga Lake. The clear and vibrant wayfinding signage utilizes Guthrie’s exisitng logos and font types, while laying the groundwork for an expanded family of signs to be installed throughout the adjacent City Harbor development. Due to the area’s propensity for flooding, the parking system design includes pocketed bioswales and stormwater management systems densly planted with native trees and shurbs. WPD’s design provided for ample picnic table and swing-bench seating along a scenic and active waterfront promenade.
