Five Teams Advance in Gateway Arch Landscape Competition
19 Aug, 2010 LDB SolutionsDesign teams enter final stage of competition to connect downtown St. Louis, the Mississippi River and the Illinois bank.
Five teams have been selected to advance to the design phase of the international competition to reinvigorate the area around the Gateway Arch and connect it to downtown St. Louis, the Mississippi River and the Illinois bank.
The goal of The City + The Arch + The River international design competition is to create an iconic setting for the international icon, the Gateway Arch, honoring its immediate surroundings and weaving connections and transitions from the city and the Arch grounds to the Mississippi River, including the east bank in Illinois.
The leaders of the design teams entering the third and final stage of the competition are:
- Behnisch Team led by Behnisch Architekten – Stuttgart, Germany, Los Angeles
- MVVA Team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates – New York City
- PWP Landscape Architecture, Foster + Partners, Civitas – Berkeley, Calif.
- SOM, Hargreaves, BIG – Chicago
- Weiss/Manfredi, Architecture/Site Design/Urbanism – New York
Entries were received from 49 teams from around the world. In February that number was pared to the nine that met with a jury of jedges. Five teams now move into the design phase.
“The goal of the first two steps of the process was to identify design teams with the talent, capacity and commitment to create thoughtful design solutions addressing the complex issues of the site and its relationship to the city, the river and the Illinois side. With this selection, that goal has been accomplished,” said Competition Manager Donald J. Stastny, of StastnyBrun Architects. “The selected teams represent local, national and international perspective, and we look forward to working with them over the next few months as their visions evolve and they create their designs.”
“Having this level of architectural, engineering and landscape design power focused on such a visible urban park is exciting,” said Tom Bradley, superintendent of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. “We are committed to incorporating our parks into the life of their surrounding communities. I look forward to seeing the designs in August.”
The final jury pick will be announced Sept. 24, 2010. The eight member jury – which counts a Pulitzer Prize‐winning architecture critic, a professor in the humanities, a former deputy director of the National Park Service, a real estate economist, a museum curator, renowned architects and renowned landscape architects among its members
The project will be constructed by Oct. 28, 2015, the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Arch.
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