Gateway Arch International Design Competition
The National Park Service and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay announced a new international design competition to re-invigorate the park and city areas surrounding “one of the world’s most iconic monuments”, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The competition, “Framing a Modern Masterpiece: The City + The Arch + The River 2015,” is called for in the National Park Service’s new General Management Plan, which was created through extensive public input over an 18-month period and approved on November 23, 2009.
According to the Gateway Arch Design competition site, “the Gateway Arch instantly became an international destination and won immediate recognition as one of the world’s premier works of public art. The grounds immediately surrounding it, designed by the late Dan Kiley, are also widely recognized as a landscape masterpiece. However, those grounds, and the city streetscape, highways, and the Mississippi riverfront which they abut, lack the ‘buzz’ of constant activity associated with a vibrant urban park – one of the issues the competition is meant to address.”
Seen at The Dirt. For more information, go to the competition’s official website.
wait a minute! Isnt this the same project as the turin pedestrian bridge presented a few weeks back?
This is really interesting, I am a resident of St Louis and to be honest, i dont think this is going to happen. first you must know that the city is isolated from the archgrounds by a freeway that cuts through the city like a wound that wont heal, they would have to build a cap over the freeway in order for this to even have a point, whats the use of a remodel if no one can see it? Also St Louis has a HORRIBLE track record when it comes to completing projects it starts, ie Ballpark Village, The Bottle District, Lake Chateau, the list goes on…
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