Winners of the 2009 Cleveland Design Competition: Lakefront Station
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 new transportation center must provide the city with a state-of-the-art rail station ready to support high speed passenger rail service, a facility capable of integrating and balancing the needs of various transportation modes, and a significant pedestrian connection from the Mall to Cleveland’s lakefront.
Linked into a High Speed Passenger Rail network, Downtown Cleveland will be an important midwest rail center among a network of connected American cities, a fitting gateway to Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio, like urban centers throughout the United States, finds itself at the center of a variety of passenger rail planning proposals. Many of these planning initiatives have been spurred by the recent commitment and investment in rail infrastructure by the federal government. While details in these proposals vary in scope and timeline, all must appropriately consider their role in contributing to a complete national network of sustainable communities. By utilizing rail to strengthen connectivity, these new multi-modal transportation networks – and the facilities that serve them – will help reinforce the social and economic sustainability of the American City.
The 2009 Awards Jury includes an accomplished panel of architects, urban designers and planners with a breadth of transportation planning and design experience: Stanton Eckstut, Founding Principal of Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EEK); Vincent Chang, Principal at Grimshaw Architects; Mehrdad Yazdani, Principal at Cannon Design and Design Director of Yazdani Studio; Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Director of the Ann E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University; Robert Brown, Director of City of Cleveland Planning Commission. More information about each of the jurors can be found on the competition website.
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