Archive for the ‘Cleveland Design Competition’ Category

Paris based INFLUX_STUDIO has shared with ArchDaily their design proposal for the “Connecting Cleveland” urban strategy, a multimodal center built into the infrastructure fabric of the city’s lakefront. Additional images of their strategy and a outline of their conceptualization after the break… (go to article)  

The Cleveland Design Competition recently announced the winners of the third annual competition - Project 2009: Lakefront Station – Ideas for a 21st Century Multi-Modal Transportation Facility. Project 2009: Lakefront Station is an international, single-stage ideas competition for a new multi-modal transportation center in Downtown Cleveland between the historic Mall and Lake Erie. Designs for this [...]

Winners were announced last Friday (January 29th) for the third annual Cleveland Design Competition. This year’s project focus was the Lakefront Station (the current Amtrak site), which required contestants to design a multi-modal transit center that could double as a pedestrian path bridging the Mall with North Coast Harbor. The winners—Mario Caceres and Christian Canonico [...]

I was able to attend the Cleveland Design Competition Project 2009: Lakefront Station Awards on Friday night at the Colonial Arcade. As always, Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink, the event organizers put on a great competition and an even better awards reception. It is always encouraging for the design culture of Cleveland to see this [...]

Cleveland Design Competition Reception Friday, January 29th, 2010 Colonial Marketplace, 530 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio enter from Euclid side 6pm – 9pm Reception Page: 6:00pm Light hors d’oeuvres (catered by The Greenhouse Tavern) and Project 2009: Lakefront Station Design Ideas Exhibit 7:00pm Welcome 7:10pm Introduction by Councilman Joe Cimperman, City of Cleveland 7:25pm Announcement of [...]

One of the holy grails of city planning in Cleveland is the desire to create a strong connection between the downtown core and the Lake Erie waterfront. A second is that of building a lakefront train station located more or less where Chicago architect Daniel Burnham proposed building one as part of his 1903 Group [...]

Eh? What could that be? Eh? Looking a little familiar is it? his year I have decided to not wait until the very last second to start thinking about the Cleveland Design Competition and instead at least start developing the canvas upon which my little idea will sprout. I figure building downtown Cleveland in 3D should [...]

The Mall in downtown Cleveland is the city’s grandest public space, but that’s not saying much, given that it feels dead most of the time. This is not what Chicago architect Daniel Burnham had in mind when he conceived the Mall in 1903 as the heart of the Group Plan for Cleveland. He envisioned a [...]

Welcome to all new visitors to the annual Cleveland Design Competition andWelcome Back to those of you who have followed prior Cleveland ideas competitions Project 2007: Irishtown Bend and Project 2008: interPLAY! Project 2009: Lakefront Station focuses on a prominent downtown site at the north end of Cleveland’s historic Mall and proposes a 21st century transportation center [...]

I have found that holding my breathe doesn’t really make things move faster or occur sooner regardless of what idioms you may hear. This is why I am extremely very excited to announce that registration and the official launch of the third Cleveland Design Competition happens(ed) today, October 5th. The timeline is already in place [...]

“Pashek’s entry, a collaboration between Nancy Lonnett Roman, Sara Thompson, and Jennifer Tharp, focused on not just the visual aspects of the space, but incorporated sound and touch as well.  Their design included a hydraulophone, a type of pipe organ played by blocking water streams coming out of open holes in a giant pipe, bumps [...]

“On December 18th, 2008, Kathryn Lincoln, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Armando Carbonell, Senior Fellow and Chairman of Lincoln’s Department of Planning and Urban Form, announced the winners of this year’s competition at West 78th Street Studios in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood. Over two hundred people [...]

“Visit the 2008 Cleveland Design Competition Awards page for a full listing of Prize winners and additional Noteworthy Submissions. All Prize winners’ and Noteworthy Submissions’ competition boards can now be viewed online in the Project 2008 Design Gallery…” (go to article)

“Kathyrn J. Lincoln, chair of the board of directors at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and chair of the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute, were in Cleveland last week to announce the winners of the second annual Cleveland Design Competition. This is the second [...]

“CLEVELAND – The second annual Cleveland Design Competition launched in August 2008, soliciting design solutions for the site surrounding the West 65th Street Tunnel in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood. Each year, the competition introduces a challenge for the design of an under-utilized or high-profile Cleveland site for solutions in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. [...]

“Competition entrants will design intergenerational play landscapes, pavilions, architecture, and/or artistic interventions for fun, leisure, activity and amusement around an existing multipurpose pathway that connects Cleveland’s west side neighborhoods with Lake Erie. Designs will create an inventive recreational amentity and community gathering space for the people of the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood – elevating the site [...]

“Figured I would start getting the word out there. The full brief including timeline, registration costs, site specificity, program, submission requirements, etc, all the fun stuff that makes design competitions so gruelingly enjoyable, has been posted to the Cleveland Competition website. all the downloadable resources you have come to love and expect including the brief [...]

“Project 2008: interPLAY is south of Edgewater Park along the Lake Erie shoreline and a short walk north of the Gordon Square Arts District centered at West 65th Street and Detroit. New and turn-of-the-century housing mixed with industrial uses are the site’s immediate neighbors – a Norfolk-Southern rail line runs across the site and over [...]

“For those of us who have been eagerly awaiting the second installment of the annual Cleveland Competition have finally received word that all rockets are go! and the entry brief is slated to be released August 22, 2008 ( a mere 11 days away). The focus this year is entitled “Interplay” and pertains to the [...]

“On Friday, August 22nd, 2008, the second annual Cleveland Design Competition will open for registration as we launch Project 2008: interPLAY. Maintaining a focus on under-utilized sites, the competition will solicit thoughtful design solutions to Cleveland’s unique urban challenges and inherent design opportunities. This year’s competition is set within the condition of population migration back [...]





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