WELCOME to the second annual Cleveland Design Competition !!!
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 into urban neighborhoods and the need to develop effective social infrastructure to sustain existing populations and attract new residents. As urban cores and inner ring suburbs become more economically and generationally diverse, it is becoming increasingly important to provide viable, active environments capable of fostering interaction despite cultural differences.
For years, play spaces and public recreation facilities have devolved to a great extent into intellectually limiting environments that prescribe specific activities and stint spontaneous interaction. False presumptions of appropriate activities or underprogrammed spaces has left many public parks and plazas underutilized - whether occupied for limited times of day (or seasons of the year), used by a single age group, or serving singular skills and interests. For Project 2008: interPLAY, it will be critical for entrants to rethink social/recreation programming and consider the types of interactions and emotions that a well designed intergenerational public space can elicit.
The 2008 Cleveland Design Competition site, located a few miles west of downtown Cleveland in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood, is situated at the northern terminus of West 65th Street at the intersection of West 65th and Father Caruso Drive. The site's predominant use is as a multi-purpose pedestrian passageway between the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood and Edgewater Park along Lake Erie.
The Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood is a dramatically changing Cleveland community seeing significant investments in arts and culture, new dining and shopping destinations, renovations of aging housing, and the replacement of lakefront industrial areas with housing and public spaces. Projects transforming and redefining the community range from an eco-village, to the development of a $100 million housing neighborhood on 13-acres overlooking Lake Erie, and the multi-million dollar decommissioning of the West Shoreway from a high speed roadway to a pedestrian scaled, tree line boulevard.
More information on the neighborhood's history and its current condition, the site's geographic constraints, and the competition's objectives will be available in the Competition Brief on the competition website (http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/) beginning August 22nd, 2008.
The 2008 competition is administered by Cleveland architecture professionals Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink, Greg Peckham - Cleveland Public Art, and Steve Rugare - Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Competition partners for Project 2008 - interPLAY include the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, The Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, Cleveland Public Art, ParkWorks, and Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.
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.
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 into urban neighborhoods and the need to develop effective social infrastructure to sustain existing populations and attract new residents. As urban cores and inner ring suburbs become more economically and generationally diverse, it is becoming increasingly important to provide viable, active environments capable of fostering interaction despite cultural differences.
For years, play spaces and public recreation facilities have devolved to a great extent into intellectually limiting environments that prescribe specific activities and stint spontaneous interaction. False presumptions of appropriate activities or underprogrammed spaces has left many public parks and plazas underutilized - whether occupied for limited times of day (or seasons of the year), used by a single age group, or serving singular skills and interests. For Project 2008: interPLAY, it will be critical for entrants to rethink social/recreation programming and consider the types of interactions and emotions that a well designed intergenerational public space can elicit.
The 2008 Cleveland Design Competition site, located a few miles west of downtown Cleveland in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood, is situated at the northern terminus of West 65th Street at the intersection of West 65th and Father Caruso Drive. The site's predominant use is as a multi-purpose pedestrian passageway between the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood and Edgewater Park along Lake Erie.
The Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood is a dramatically changing Cleveland community seeing significant investments in arts and culture, new dining and shopping destinations, renovations of aging housing, and the replacement of lakefront industrial areas with housing and public spaces. Projects transforming and redefining the community range from an eco-village, to the development of a $100 million housing neighborhood on 13-acres overlooking Lake Erie, and the multi-million dollar decommissioning of the West Shoreway from a high speed roadway to a pedestrian scaled, tree line boulevard.
More information on the neighborhood's history and its current condition, the site's geographic constraints, and the competition's objectives will be available in the Competition Brief on the competition website (http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/) beginning August 22nd, 2008.
The 2008 competition is administered by Cleveland architecture professionals Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink, Greg Peckham - Cleveland Public Art, and Steve Rugare - Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Competition partners for Project 2008 - interPLAY include the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, The Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, Cleveland Public Art, ParkWorks, and Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.
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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