Vladivostok, Russia
Beginning in 1994, James Hubbell led the building of four parks in “sister cities” in Pacific Rim nations around the world. These include Vladivostok, Russia, Yantai, China, San Diego, California (Pearl of the Pacific, Shelter Island), Tijuana, Mexico, and Puerto Princessa, the Philippines. These community parks, designed by James Hubbell and built with the help of hundreds of international colleagues and architecture students from around the world, are situated facing the ocean. Hubbell’s intent is for visitors to look out on the Pacific and consider it as a shared resource that connects us rather than a barrier that divides us.
The architecture students who help Hubbell create these parks experience a life changing experience, as they bridge language and cultural differences and overcome their own preconceived notions to work together in creating a public space of beauty.
James Hubbell is the co-founder of the Pacific Rims Parks Organization. This non-profit foundation seeks to enhance the metaphor of the Pacific as a catalyst and symbol for an emerging world culture that values diversity, beauty, and respect for all people and all cultures, as well as the natural world.
Additional Program Partners:
Our Students
Yantai University, China
Far Eastern State Technical University, Russia
University of California, San Diego
Universidad Iberoamericana School of Architecture
Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana
Friends of the Pacific Rim Park
San Diego-Vladivostok Sister City Society
International Rotary
Mission Valley Rotary
Port of San Diego