The Park at Lakeshore East SITE

LOCATION

Chicago, Illinois

CLIENTS

Magellan Development Group

Chicago Park District COMPLETION YEAR 2004

The Park at Lakeshore East’s 5.3-acre urban park is the centerpiece of the 28-acre mixed-use Lakeshore East development in Chicago’s Loop community. The first project constructed from the Master Plan, the park provides diverse and flexible spaces that accommodate a wide range of community needs, including passive water promenades, a dog park, a playground for younger children, a great lawn, gardens, lighting, and a variety of seating options.

The Park demonstrates how a landscape architecture project can spur development. The park is easily one of CPD’s best maintained parks in its 600-plus park portfolio because of a maintenance agreement initiated through the Master Plan. Each surrounding building must pay a park maintenance tax that has helped build an extensive maintenance endowment for the park. This endowment supplements CPD maintenance with community-funded and coordinated maintenance, ensuring the park remains beautiful and functional at all times.

Social Propeller

CHER WONG

University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

MERIT AWARD

CATEGORY

Student Award, Graduate

Rupture and flow explains the relationship between northern, southern Cyprus, the historic walled city, and the new city in Nicosia. Many Cypriot students study abroad, while immigration has increased for jobs, investment, and refuge, leaving young people of all types facing a lack of professional opportunities. Social Propeller creates a living corridor that connects the walled city through the moat to the new city. It supports upward mobility to attract young Cypriots back, link with new immigrants, foster a young creative class, and form a vibrant new creative neighborhood.

Transitional Ecologies, Regeneration of the Lacustrine

ALEXIS ARIAS, JING YAO & RACHEL STARR Illinois Institute of Technology - MLA

MERIT AWARD

CATEGORY Student Award, Graduate

Transitional Ecologies would establish a botanical landscape on the site of Mexico City’s airport project. The site is a rare global highaltitude salinelacustrine habitat. The partially constructed airport required drainage of the last water bodies and 30 million cubic feet of imported volcanic rock. It was an ecological disaster halted by national referendum in 2018. A research project by the Illinois Institute of Technology proposed a botanic garden that would create the most extensive botanical garden in the world. However, the sites environmental degradation requires rethinking the 21st century botanic garden.

URBAN FLUX: Stimulating the Calumet Region

YU HANG LEUNG, JIAJIA WANG, AMBER SIMS, SAMANTHA NEWMAN & KATIE BULIN

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MERIT AWARD

CATEGORY Student Award, Undergraduate

Urban Flux recognizes that the Calumet Region still holds great potential for future development and urban landscape interventions. It values and relies on local resources to support further economic and regional growth. The framework responds to the unique industrial and cultural heritage of the region by using five anchor point areas in South Chicago, East Chicago, Gary, Lake Station, and Michigan City. Each point has a designated development role and includes various economic initiatives that address community needs such as urban farming and affordable housing.

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