Saturday, January 20, 2007
Announcement, Registration, and Submission Details
The announcement and formal launch of the Irish Town Bend competition is only one week away!
Coinciding with next Friday's announcement, competition literature, materials, and resources will become available at www.clevelandcompetition.com. The downloadable competition brief will detail the competition's objectives, registration details, entry requirements, and the project submission deadline in the coming months.
Coinciding with next Friday's announcement, competition literature, materials, and resources will become available at www.clevelandcompetition.com. The downloadable competition brief will detail the competition's objectives, registration details, entry requirements, and the project submission deadline in the coming months.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
"Irish Town Bend" registration and submissions launch - Friday, January 26th 2007
On Friday, January 26th, the first of an Annual Cleveland Design Competition will launch its registration and submission process. Each year, the design competition will focus on under-utilized or high-profile Cleveland sites with solutions in architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. These competitions will solicit thoughtful design solutions to the challenges of urban decay, provide a nationally-recognized forum for contemporary design expression, and direct the attention of the local and national design community to Cleveland's unique urban challenges and design opportunities as it re-establishes itself as a leader in art, culture, and design.
The focus for this year's competition is a hillside adjacent to Cleveland's historic Ohio City neighborhood at the Cuyahoga River's edge - Irish Town Bend. Irish Town Bend, flanking the Cuyahoga River's west bank in Cleveland's Industrial Valley, lies unused, overgrown, and largely inaccessible after storied histories as an Irish shanty settlement, river's edge distribution site, immigrant neighborhood and post-war public housing complex. From the site's vantage along the edge of Cleveland's Industrial Flats, photographer Margaret Bourke-White captured the dominance of industry over a rapidly rising American city. Today, the same perspective reveals a complex urban history of unparalleled industrial growth and rapid abandonment, evolving patterns of immigration, wealth, and poverty, and the rise of a rich rust-belt city followed by decades of decline and urban decay. The hillside and riverbank remains largely inaccessible and mostly forgotten under a blanket of riparian vegetation and unstable soils.
The site is roughly bound by W.25th Street, the Detroit Superior Bridge, the Cuyahoga Viaduct, and the Cuyahoga River. More of the site's complex historical and geographic constraints will be available in the Competition Brief on the competition website (http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/) beginning January 26, 2007.
The 2007 competition is administered by Cleveland architecture professionals Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink, Cleveland Public Art, and Kent State University's Urban Design Collaborative. Competition partners include the Cleveland chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Ohio chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and Cleveland's Flats Oxbow Association.
Email info@clevelandcompetition.com to be added to the distribution list for upcoming competition updates. If you know any organizations that may be interested in participating in the sponsorship program for this year, please contact the Cleveland Design Competition at sponsorship@clevelandcompetition.com.
The focus for this year's competition is a hillside adjacent to Cleveland's historic Ohio City neighborhood at the Cuyahoga River's edge - Irish Town Bend. Irish Town Bend, flanking the Cuyahoga River's west bank in Cleveland's Industrial Valley, lies unused, overgrown, and largely inaccessible after storied histories as an Irish shanty settlement, river's edge distribution site, immigrant neighborhood and post-war public housing complex. From the site's vantage along the edge of Cleveland's Industrial Flats, photographer Margaret Bourke-White captured the dominance of industry over a rapidly rising American city. Today, the same perspective reveals a complex urban history of unparalleled industrial growth and rapid abandonment, evolving patterns of immigration, wealth, and poverty, and the rise of a rich rust-belt city followed by decades of decline and urban decay. The hillside and riverbank remains largely inaccessible and mostly forgotten under a blanket of riparian vegetation and unstable soils.
The site is roughly bound by W.25th Street, the Detroit Superior Bridge, the Cuyahoga Viaduct, and the Cuyahoga River. More of the site's complex historical and geographic constraints will be available in the Competition Brief on the competition website (http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/) beginning January 26, 2007.
The 2007 competition is administered by Cleveland architecture professionals Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink, Cleveland Public Art, and Kent State University's Urban Design Collaborative. Competition partners include the Cleveland chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Ohio chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and Cleveland's Flats Oxbow Association.
Email info@clevelandcompetition.com to be added to the distribution list for upcoming competition updates. If you know any organizations that may be interested in participating in the sponsorship program for this year, please contact the Cleveland Design Competition at sponsorship@clevelandcompetition.com.
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