Saturday, January 10, 2009
Project 2008 Design Gallery
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.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Cleveland Design Competition - Project 2008: interPLAY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 22, 2008
CONTACT:
Michael Christoff, or
Bradley Fink
Cleveland Design Competition
216.337.9410
info@clevelandcompetition.com
CLEVELAND DESIGN COMPETITION
Design Challenge Envisions Lakefront Tunnel and Pathway as a Destination for Intergenerational Play
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.
Project 2008: interPLAY was an open, single-stage ideas competition focusing on activating an existing multipurpose path and tunnel through intergenerational play. The competition site is located a few minutes west of downtown Cleveland in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood at the northern terminus of West 65th. Participants were asked to design an intergenerational playscape that activates the residual space around an existing multipuprose pathway connecting Cleveland’s west side neighborhoods to Edgewater Park and Lake Erie. While the pathway at the competition site is already used by residents and visitors of all generations and backgrounds, it functions solely as a passageway, precluding interaction and sustained activity. Designers were asked to go beyond existing convention to propose inclusive and creative solutions that elevate community play design.
The jury for Project 2008: interPLAY included Casey Jones, Partner, joneskroloff in Bloomfield Hills, MI; Jawaid Haider, Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Barry Richards, Senior Associate/Studio Leader at the Rockwell Group in New York, NY; Patricia Stevens, Chief of Park Planning at the Cleveland Metroparks, Cleveland, OH; and Cathy Whitehouse, Principal and Chief Educator at The Integenerational School in Cleveland, OH.
On December 18th, 2008, Kathryn Lincoln, chariwoman of the board of directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the 2008 awards sponsor, and Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and Chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form, at the Lincoln Institute, announced the winners at a public reception and exhibition held at The West 78th Street Studios in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood. The announcement of the winners was accompanied by the display of over fifty-five competition entries sent in from teams in twelve different countries.
Nini Spagl and Gerald Haselwanter of Vienna, Austria were awarded the $2,500 first prize for a well-illustrated submission that activated the site through a landscape with seasonal variation and a combination of successful active and passive play opportunities. Runner-up proposals were awarded to the team of Slyvain Delboy, Dimitri Boutleux, and Sarah Kassler of San Francisco, California for the $1,000 second prize, and the $500 third prize was awarded to Elise Shelley and James Roche of Toronto, Canada. This year, these five teams had submissions recognized as Noteworthy Projects for the interest and discourse generated at the juried review: Katherine Holmok, Leann Andrews, and Matt Watons of Parma, Ohio; Jenn Tharp, Nancy Lonnett Roman, and Sara Thompson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Jason Slatinsky and Gina Robinson of Charlotte, North Carolina; David Krebs, Lindsay Fallert, John Swidrak, Bryan Black, and Ian Rosby of Cleveland, Ohio; and Donguk Lee and Doosan Baek of Seoul, South Korea.
For more information about the competition, or to see images from the winning submissions, please visit visit www.clevelandcompetition.com. Please be sure to check back to the website as the planning for Project 2009, the third year for the Cleveland Design Competition, is currently underway!
About the Organizers:
Project 2008 was organized by architectural professionals Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink along with advisory support from Steve Rugare of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and Greg Peckham of Cleveland Public Art. The Partners and Sponsors that made the 2008 Cleveland Design Competition possible included: The 2008 Awards Sponsor - the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, The Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, Behnke and Associates, Cleveland Public Art, FORUM Architects, ParkWorks, Westlake Reed Leskosky, AIA Cleveland, and the Cleveland Metroparks.
About the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy:
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, founded in 1974, is the nation’s premiere research institution on land use and taxation. Funding came from the Lincoln Foundation, which was created in 1946 by John C. Lincoln, a Cleveland industrialist who became intrigued with land use and tax policy as it relates to land through the writings of Henry George. Today the Lincoln Institute, located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., serves as a non-partisan forum for scholars, policymakers, practitioners, citizens and journalists, integrating theory and practice through education, research, demonstration projects, publications and conferences. The mission is to promote discussion of the multidisciplinary forces that shape public policy related to land. Find out more at http://www.lincolninst.edu/.
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December 22, 2008
CONTACT:
Michael Christoff, or
Bradley Fink
Cleveland Design Competition
216.337.9410
info@clevelandcompetition.com
CLEVELAND DESIGN COMPETITION
Design Challenge Envisions Lakefront Tunnel and Pathway as a Destination for Intergenerational Play
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.
Project 2008: interPLAY was an open, single-stage ideas competition focusing on activating an existing multipurpose path and tunnel through intergenerational play. The competition site is located a few minutes west of downtown Cleveland in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood at the northern terminus of West 65th. Participants were asked to design an intergenerational playscape that activates the residual space around an existing multipuprose pathway connecting Cleveland’s west side neighborhoods to Edgewater Park and Lake Erie. While the pathway at the competition site is already used by residents and visitors of all generations and backgrounds, it functions solely as a passageway, precluding interaction and sustained activity. Designers were asked to go beyond existing convention to propose inclusive and creative solutions that elevate community play design.
The jury for Project 2008: interPLAY included Casey Jones, Partner, joneskroloff in Bloomfield Hills, MI; Jawaid Haider, Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Barry Richards, Senior Associate/Studio Leader at the Rockwell Group in New York, NY; Patricia Stevens, Chief of Park Planning at the Cleveland Metroparks, Cleveland, OH; and Cathy Whitehouse, Principal and Chief Educator at The Integenerational School in Cleveland, OH.
On December 18th, 2008, Kathryn Lincoln, chariwoman of the board of directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the 2008 awards sponsor, and Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and Chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form, at the Lincoln Institute, announced the winners at a public reception and exhibition held at The West 78th Street Studios in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood. The announcement of the winners was accompanied by the display of over fifty-five competition entries sent in from teams in twelve different countries.
Nini Spagl and Gerald Haselwanter of Vienna, Austria were awarded the $2,500 first prize for a well-illustrated submission that activated the site through a landscape with seasonal variation and a combination of successful active and passive play opportunities. Runner-up proposals were awarded to the team of Slyvain Delboy, Dimitri Boutleux, and Sarah Kassler of San Francisco, California for the $1,000 second prize, and the $500 third prize was awarded to Elise Shelley and James Roche of Toronto, Canada. This year, these five teams had submissions recognized as Noteworthy Projects for the interest and discourse generated at the juried review: Katherine Holmok, Leann Andrews, and Matt Watons of Parma, Ohio; Jenn Tharp, Nancy Lonnett Roman, and Sara Thompson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Jason Slatinsky and Gina Robinson of Charlotte, North Carolina; David Krebs, Lindsay Fallert, John Swidrak, Bryan Black, and Ian Rosby of Cleveland, Ohio; and Donguk Lee and Doosan Baek of Seoul, South Korea.
For more information about the competition, or to see images from the winning submissions, please visit visit www.clevelandcompetition.com. Please be sure to check back to the website as the planning for Project 2009, the third year for the Cleveland Design Competition, is currently underway!
About the Organizers:
Project 2008 was organized by architectural professionals Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink along with advisory support from Steve Rugare of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and Greg Peckham of Cleveland Public Art. The Partners and Sponsors that made the 2008 Cleveland Design Competition possible included: The 2008 Awards Sponsor - the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, The Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, Behnke and Associates, Cleveland Public Art, FORUM Architects, ParkWorks, Westlake Reed Leskosky, AIA Cleveland, and the Cleveland Metroparks.
About the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy:
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, founded in 1974, is the nation’s premiere research institution on land use and taxation. Funding came from the Lincoln Foundation, which was created in 1946 by John C. Lincoln, a Cleveland industrialist who became intrigued with land use and tax policy as it relates to land through the writings of Henry George. Today the Lincoln Institute, located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., serves as a non-partisan forum for scholars, policymakers, practitioners, citizens and journalists, integrating theory and practice through education, research, demonstration projects, publications and conferences. The mission is to promote discussion of the multidisciplinary forces that shape public policy related to land. Find out more at http://www.lincolninst.edu/.
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