Chouteau Greenway

Selected Design Team:

Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Urban Planning for the American City, ALTA, Marlon Blackwell Architects, Damon Davis, De Nichols, Mallory Nezam, Amanda Williams, David Mason and Associates, Lochmueller, Diversity Awareness Partnership, HR&A

The Brickline Greenway (formerly Chouteau Greenway) is part of the overall network of greenways being built by Great Rivers Greenway and partners throughout the St. Louis region. Great Rivers Greenway led a major public-private partnership to sponsor a design competition to establish the conceptual plan for the greenway, an ambitious project to connect St. Louis neighborhoods, employment centers, parks, transit, and dozens of cultural and educational institutions from Washington University to the Mississippi Riverfront and the many destinations and partners in between. The competition invited designers to think beyond the trail itself to create active, vibrant spaces and destinations along the way and helped spark a much greater conversation.

Today, the project is about transforming St. Louis, connecting our beloved treasures together with the people who live here to create vibrant experiences every day. It is about giving voice to many who have not had the opportunity to participate in the long history of the city’s development. It’s about connecting, trying new things and moving forward. —Susan Trautman, former CEO, Great Rivers Greenway

Place Matters: Portland State

SELECTED DESIGN TEAM: WALKER MACY COLLABORATIVE

Portland State University sponsored the design competition to transform Portland State’s public spaces into vibrant people-centered places and strengthen PSU’s place in the city of Portland. Design Teams were asked to take a broad look at possibilities and opportunities, and think deeply about PSU’s educational, cultural, economic, civic, infrastructural, and community functions while considering ways to leverage and reimagine those functions year-round through the mechanisms of place and space. Also to consider how places can cultivate identities as destination spaces while maintaining a commitment to economic and cultural equity.

Design Waller Creek

SELECTED TEAM: MichAel van valkenburgh associates and Thomas Phifer & Partners

The design competition asked designers to re-envision the role of a small, urban creek in the context of a densely populated area, anticipating new solutions that would advance landscape and urban design thinking to turn a fragmented and undervalued section of Austin into a vibrant, livable, and workable district. Sponsored by the Waller Creek Conservancy (now the Waterloo Greenway Conservancy), the competition focused on the lower 1.5 miles of the Waller Creek corridor that runs through downtown Austin into Lady Bird Lake. Waterloo Park, the first phase of the project now called the Waterloo Greenway, opened in 2021 and Phase II broke ground in 2023.

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Connect Kendall Square

SELECTED DESIGN TEAM: RICHARD BURCK ASSOCIATES

The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, sponsored this competition to create a comprehensive open space framework for Kendall Square and Eastern Cambridge that would help determine the character and role of the four new public open spaces; strategies for potential connections, programming and placemaking; and guidelines for decision making and evaluations of future open spaces that are part of private developments, in order to ultimately facilitate the creation of an open space network that further promotes the innovative character of the area, and helps to create a sense of place and community.

Envisioning Place: Sandpoint, Idaho

SELECTED DESIGN TEAM: GGLO and Bernardo Wills

The City of Sandpoint commissioned a design competition to create an inspirational vision for the connection of Sandpoint’s downtown and waterfront. When the city was incorporated, urban waterfronts were not considered amenities for people. As the town developed and redeveloped over time, connections between the downtown and waterfront were not created. In the past 25 years, the City of Sandpoint has worked to revitalize the town’s downtown and is now focused on connecting the improved downtown to the waterfront along both Sand Creek and Lake Pend Oreille. The competition asked multi-disciplinary design teams to assist the city in weaving the pieces together to create a vision plan and guide ongoing public and private investments in the area.