The Seattle based landscape architecture practice Gustafson Guthrie Nichol has recently worked on the submittal for the Downtown Cleveland Plan and we are fortunate enough to share their material with our readers. Read after the break for a architects description and additional images.
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is working to revive the urban heart of Cleveland, Ohio through two catalytic projects: the Cleveland Medical Mart and Convention Center and the Connecting Downtown Cleveland Plan. These focus on the Mall and Civic District, originally designed in 1903 by the Group Plan Commission which included architect Daniel Burnham, and stand as a rare example of constructed, extant Burnham planning with principals and proportions revealing Burnham’s involvement in the McMillan Plan for the National Mall in Washington, DC. Gustafson Guthrie Nichol’s work revives many of the originally planned axial relationships that have been modified during the past 100 years, and marries contemporary urban design tenets with those of the City Beautiful Movement, which shared a focus on ‘order, system, and reserve’ as well as ‘circulation, hygiene, and art’.
