RIVERCIRCLE BEHNISCH TEAM A Strategic Perspective The RIVERCIRCLE - - PDF document

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Now! : Quick Wins Our project does not have a completion date in 2015. We believe that the process has already started and that there are opportunities to introduce fjrst interventions in 2010. Our aggressive phasing strategy is not proposing a breakneck fast-track procurement method, but instead a process where legal

• pportunities to commence with select key ‘Quick Win’ projects are quickly

implemented to signal to the people of St. Louis that the process is underway. Before 2015 : Gaining Momentum We are proposing that the city starts transforming four key entrance gate- ways into the Arch grounds immediately with low cost initiatives that take place in the right-of-way of the public in close dialogue with adjacent build- ing stakeholders that are informed of the further phasing and process. 2015 : New Perspectives Festival! Or: An event for St Louis. In 2015 the Arch celebrates its 50th an-

• niversary. It offers an opportunity to make the Arch grounds a local destina-

tion with new program celebrating the Arch again, new phase / Catalyst for the city with new programs and amenities, a reinterpretation of the Arch grounds, a destination for the citizens of St Louis. Future : Sustained Vitality Provision of a sustainable long range plan for the citizens of St Louis and East St Louis. A framework plan with built in fmexibility allowing for many different uses and developments in the future.

GREAT RIVERS EXPO –

INTERNATIONAL BUILDING AND LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION The RIVERCIRCLE! | NATIONAL MALL concept, framing urban, landscape, architectural and artistic activity, emerges from a sustaining vision of integrated regional development, an encircling strategic plan and organization we propose as the GREAT RIVERS EXPO – THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING AND LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION ST. LOUIS. GREAT RIVERS EXPO is partly a building exhibition in the classic, architectural sense, but is also a federal and state-supported entity that over- sees individual redevelopment projects and an overarching Master Plan. A variety of landscape and architecture, art projects will be developed

• ver time rather than developed as a single event.

The mission, mandate and timeframe illustrate the most productive contemporary thinking in the ecological and economic regeneration of a former industrial region; the methods and designs emerging from this strategy are best described as “Sustained Vitality.” 1900 1904 World’s Fair, St. Louis 1904 Summer Olympics 1948 National Expansion Memorial Competition 1965 National Expansion Memorial Opens 2015 50th Anniversary Celebration 2065 100th Anniversary Celebration 2010 Great Rivers Expo Begins 1950 2000 2050 The RIVERCIRCLE urban landscape concept proposes a durable framework for the evolution of the Arch grounds within the larger milieu of St. Louis and East St. Louis addressing the many current stakeholder interests on both sides of the river. The design strategy of the Great Rivers Expo and the RIVERCIRCLE will provide the physical framework for visitors to experience the many new and diverse places and events. To achieve this goal we will make sure that all planning and design proposals emerging out of

• ur Rivercircle! concept will be based on the close relationship between people’s natural use
• f public spaces and the physical character and form of the built environment while embracing

the unique qualities of the local context on both sides of the Mississippi River. Rivercircle shall

• pen up, invite and include people, provide different activities and possibilities and thereby

invite and ensure multiplicity and diversity.

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A fragmented urban fabric Reconnected and whole once more

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GATEWAy MALL : CLOSE CHESTNUT (EVENTS) WASHINGTON PLAzA : A NEW LOCAL MARkET UNDER POPLAR BRIDGE : AN URBAN SPORTS PARk EAST RIVERBANk : ACCESS OVER FLOODWALL CULTURAL INCUBATOR EADS BRIDGE GATEWAy MALL LOCAL PROGRAMS RESOURCE CENTER AMPHITHEATER GONDOLA MEMORIAL BLVD. MUSIC PROjECT MUSEUM ENTRy EAST AND WEST RIVER EDGE TRANSFORMATIONS RIVER EDGE EXTENSIONS TRAIL NETWORk

A Strategic Perspective

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Site Section - 2015

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Site Plan - 2015 Storm water Strategy We propose a network of wetlands, bio-swales, canals and channels that capture, cleanse and reuse the site and adjacent landscape’s storm water runoff. Reconnecting a Fragmented Ecology Reclaiming of a native landscape that celebrates the ecological history of the Bottomlands will restore the matrix of marsh, scrub, woodlands, and seasonal fmoodplain to the site. The site invites visitors from across the River to play, recreate and meander through the restored Bottomland woodlands and marshes, amongst boardwalks, hiking trails, and picnic groves. RIVERCIRCLE The RIVERCIRCLE traverses a series of different and ever changing landscapes and urban conditions, con- necting them while allowing for an exciting and diverse experience.

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Introducing and Connecting New Landscapes and Ecologies Hydrology - Stormwater Strategy Interconnected Public Space Network

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PERMANENT EVENT PLATFORMS PUBLIC ART AND BUILT EXHIBIT OPENINGS EVENT / FESTIVAL LAND ART AND EXHIBIT OPENINGS LANDSCAPE / ECOLOGY PROJECTS LANDSCAPE / ECOLOGY QUICK WINS CITY LIFE / PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT VICTORY PARTY ON EADS

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PLANS AND TREES FOR ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION

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Gateway Mall and the Arch Museum (looking west from the top of the Arch) In St. Louis, Charles Charles sways, then steadies himself against the carpeted window wall atop the Arch – was it the Arch moving in the wind, or was the view that magnetic now? He’d been at the top too many times before to lose his equilibrium easily. Why, he’d been at the top at the very moment it became a full and connected Arch, that scorching day in ‘65 when the fjnal triangular element had been hoisted up and levered into place. Even in the heat, the view from the top that day was grand, outranking all others since then gained from the interior observation area – the great bowl of the Midwest horizon, visible for 360 degrees, was almost overwhelming: he had never felt so centered. There’s just something different in the views west and east, more in the immediate fjeld of his vision down below to both directions, that’s got him shifting his feet and craning his head from side to side. He hears similar exclamations from the others in his group –the construction crew veterans, brought back by the city and the Park Service for the day’s events. To the west, in the fall twilight, he sees the Gateway Mall and the city’s downtown stretching west, but there’s now the new City Pavilion in front of the Old Courthouse, a new pedestrian boulevard fronting the Arch Grounds, and a new il- luminated west entry to the Arch museums; Eads Bridge glows with activity and to the east, where once had been brown fjelds, an orches- tra is clearly performing at the new amphitheatre beyond that, there A NEW MONUMENTALITY Our proposed new design narrative suggests a recon- ceived understanding of “monumentality,” in urban, ar- chitectural, and landscape architectural terms. We pro- pose RIVERCIRCLE for the continental center, organized but not bounded by the fmow of the great Mississippi River, and encircled around and across it by an aggregate

• f well-scaled, highly accessible, distinctive public places,

parks, promenades, performance stages, resource centers and recreation fjelds. The River runs through it all – and is thereby granted status as more than an economic or in- dustrial resource, but as a carrier of American culture, in both real and metaphorical ways. As an organizing con- cept, this encircling sequence of public activities, is cap- tured by the compound noun RIVERCIRCLE. Gateway Mall - Public Realm Plan Direct Route Meandering Route are the outlines of the new Great Rivers Resource Center he’d been told about. Suddenly, he wants to endure the cramped elevator car ride back down the north leg as soon as possible, get out to the Arch Grounds, get himself re-oriented to the life of the new St. Louis. He thinks: I’ve had my balance all along – here in the life of this city.

A NEW MONUMENTALITY

CELEBRATING THE NOW

In St. Louis, Xiao Feng considers, as he rides into the city’s downtown on the Metro Red Line from the Lambert Airport, he has surely come to a regular American river city – small to be sure post-in- dustrial, cultured in the more typical American ways, probably – base- ball, he had heard, was nearly a religion to the citizens. But, here too was Boeing, and Monsanto, and the Budweiser beer company that had sponsored the Beijing Olympics not too many years ago, and the great research universities. The Red Line works effectively, he thinks, fending off jet-lag, and there on the evening horizon is the unmistak- able illuminated Arch that is known around the world as the icon of the city. Fantastic, he smiles, as if the form has fallen from the sky to the riverbank in the middle of the city. A symphony is playing the fjnal suite of Handel’s “Water Music”

• n the sloping lawn underneath the overwhelming upward reach of the Arch, to a magnifjcent shower of

fjreworks arcing out from the riverbank below and the exuberant applause of thousands of listeners and

• nlookers spread out across the plazas, pedestrian streets and park-places in front of him. A leafmet is thrust

into his hand : “St. Louis welcomes the world! Join us for Festival St. Louis! Join us for a celebration of the Great Rivers! Join us for David Robertson’s St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the greatest assembly of rhythm, blues and jazz on the riverbanks! Join us at the new national mall, the Arch grounds of America!” It is not the Fourth of July, he knows, but the citizens are out on this October night, in a celebration of the city itself, there are tens of thousands of people milling among rows of open air kiosks, amid scents of bar- beque, cornbread. The hotel can wait, he thinks, I may never have a chance to hear Chuck Berry again. He re-considers, humming “Johnnie B Good”: not really a regular river city after all. Arch Museum - Axon Diagram

ARCH GROUNDS EXISTING TOPOGRAPHy A NEW ENTRy FROM GATEWAy MALL TOPOGRAPHICALLy INTEGRATED CAFE DIRECT ACCESS TO THE CENTRAL LAWN AND BASE OF ARCH EXPANDED MUSEUM EXHIBITS ARCHIVE AND SUPPORT SPACE

Museum Entry Perspective (looking east) A NEW NARRATIVE The 1947 jNEM Competition stands as a testament to a bold civic and national vision of the

• future. Eero Saarinen’s narrative for his winning design, “An Imaginary Tour of the Proposed

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial,” emphasized the singular, static, perfected, highly visual and ultimately isolated nature of the design: this was a monument refmective of its time, technology and outlook. We live in a different world in many ways – and St. Louis is a different city now in many ways – and we therefore propose a new design narrative to expand and in- vigorate Saarinen and kiley’s achievements. Our design narrative cautions against conventional monumental responses to the grandeur of Saarinen and kiley’s ambitions; such gestures, we believe, will not save St. Louis and its citizens. Instead, our new narrative espouses diverse and multiple perspectives, a dynamic conception of city and landscape, the tactile and the experi- ential, the contingent and the imperfect, all with the ambition of promoting heightened civic identity and engaged public activity.

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Mississippi River Amphitheater ‘The Bend’

Directly across from the Arch, a contemporary theater space will be embedded into the landscape of the eastern river bank. A light tensile roof structure covers the main seating area and functions as a protective fmoating canopy, a beacon on the river illuminated at night for dramatic viewing experience. ‘The Bend’, upon successful introduction in july 2015 will host events during the summer and into the fall season fea- turing music concerts, theater plays, and other private and public events on its fmoating stage.

• A new beacon of identity for the river’s East Side
• A new addition to the region’s cultural rich environment vis-a-vis the Arch
• A viewing platform to experience the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

A RIVER OF CULTURE

RE-ESTABLISH THE MISSISSIPPI AS A CULTURAL LIFELINE

In St. Louis, Carol thinks, all you heard about growing up was the Arch…that gleaming bend of stainless steel on the banks of the river; And you went dutifully to show family friends visiting from out of town, and then perhaps to Fair St. Louis on a Fourth of July weekend, to see the fjreworks arching over the river. But that was all before the competition, which had proposed such ideas and initiative for both sides of the river before those fantastic build-up events, anticipating new vitality to downtown and the east and west banks of the river – really, who could have imagined Leonor K. Sullivan Drive as a riverside beach, or Taste St. Louis stretching across Eads Bridge – who could have imagined? That was all before the construction, fjnally bridging the gap across the interstate, then transforming the east bank levee into a dramatic esplanade, then lacing the bridges and city streets to- gether with the park, then majestically sending a line of gondola cars wafting above the river – and defjnitely before today, October 15, 2015, the day of the ribbon cutting for the new Gateway Museum below the Arch, the opening events for Festival St. Louis – the nation’s largest commissioned installation of public art situated in the newly restored American Bottoms park on the east bank. Seeing all this from the gondola car windows, hearing the exclamations of the visitors around her, Carol thinks, this is now, this is here, in my city, in my life – a place I be proud of, a place I can come to again and again, a place

• f Arch and Arch grounds, a place I know as home.

‘The Bend’ Amphitheater (view from the Mississippi River Gondola, looking north-east) A RIVER OF CULTURE In many cases there has been a reluctance to abandon the cultural capital embodied in historic centers. This has been abundantly true in St Louis, despite many dire warnings since 1947 that the central city was obsolete, doomed, and best left to ”lie fallow” for generations. Although the riv- er travel and rail based reasons for the centrality of this downtown have long since been superseded by the easy availability of vehicular transportation, the river-centered city’s cultural signifjcance in the region has not diminished. Activating St. Louis’ river-based downtown in a way that we now identify with urban life; with pedestrian vitality, a wide range of activities, and extensive access to natural areas along the riverfront itself is one of our key missions.

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‘The Bend’ Amphitheater - Axon Diagram FLOATING SERVICE BARGE WITH BACkSTAGE PROGRAM WOOD BENCHES - SEATING ELEMENTS FLOATING STAGE BACk-OF-HOUSE PROGRAM PUBLIC PROMENADE AND OUTDOOR FOyER VISITOR AMENITIES CAFE / RESTAURANT, BAR, FRANCHISE SHOPS, TICkETS AND RECEPTION, BATHROOMS CANOPy LANDFORM BASE Gondola - Concept Sketch A new visitor’s attraction and part of the Rivercircle network, the Gondola is designed as an engineering marvel with cabins

• f high visual transparency to

allow for maximum panoramic viewing experience.

SLIDE 5 GONDOLA CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ‚THE BEND‘ AMPHITHEATER CONSTRUCTION BEGINS CITY BALCONY CONSTRUCTION BEGINS MUSEUM CONSTRUCTION BEGINS EAST RIVERBANK PARK CONSTRUCTION BEGINS NEW SERVICE FACILITY CONSTRUCTION BEGINS MEMORIAL BLVD. TRANSFORMATION AND PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES CONSTRUCTION BEGINS

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Resource Center Typical Floor Plan 1” = 100’

Resource Center for the American Bottoms / Great Rivers

A cutting-edge facility for interdisciplinary research, education, and productivity with focus on the many ecologies of the Great Rivers and the American Bottoms. Defjning the role of our built environment as a helping tool for a productive re-naturalization of a depleted industrial landscape. Weaving outdoors and indoor spaces seamlessly, self supporting and energy-neutral.

• An interdisciplinary research facility focused on the re-naturalization efforts for the American Bottoms
• A facility with the mission to research and educate
• Its mission, as an interdisciplinary facility, is to provide scientifjc guidance, technical assistance and

education for the preservation, conservation and enhancement of park resources within the American Bottoms Landscapes and along the Great Rivers. Resource Center for the American Bottoms - Axon Diagram

A MULTI-GENERATIONAL COMMITMENT

A LARGER VISION CAN OVERCOME COMPLEX PROBLEMS

In St. Louis, Sasha inhales the fragrances of a really green spring day wafting through the air on the east side of the River: she would not have missed this day for the world. Sasha remembers asking her sister Alex to show her “a few of her favorite things”, and Alex has brought her here, to this circular drum-like building in the new parklands across the Eads Bridge, a place Alex calls the Great Rivers Resource Center, full of fmowers, and plants, and guides and lots of hands-in-the-dirt stuff to do. She’d liked the place from the start – one spiraling ramp curved throughout the inside of the drum)…as much fun as the zoo, she thinks. Alex seems to be having just as much fun, she seems to know the names of just about all the plants and how they grow, and what made them special to St. Louis; these were subjects she had in her landscape architecture program at Wash U…funny name for a school, Sasha smiles. Ha, then there was the funny name of the park- lands – the American Bottoms Nature Reserve, the guide had said – and Sasha giggles at the thought!. Funny, too, to imagine that some- times this whole area had been fmooded by the river, and maybe would be again soon – and that that was expected to happen, that that was what rivers did; and now I know that’s what has to happen to make the parklands come alive. Under the canopy of the trees, a friendly woman is pouring glasses of an iced drink; “it’s elderberry tea,” Alex tell her, and Sasha sips the new fmavor gratefully. The sun through the tree leaves dapples her face. Sasha inhales the fragrances again. She smiles, looks up at Alex and says brightly, “The air is green!” Resource Center for the American Bottoms (looking west) Multi Generational Commitment The proposal outlines a framework for a rapid, yet thought- ful, development that can begin now, yet will also allow future generations to continue to enhance the urban en- vironment of the St Louis region. We recognize that as designers we cannot always accurately predict what the future will bring. At the same time, this project identi- fjes those aspects of living, working and urban magnetism that we know to be among the key ingredients of urban

• success. This project is intended not only for the people
• f St Louis today, but also for 2015, and the many genera-

tions that will follow and live in this region.

City Balcony

A new experience on the River between Eads Bridge and Poplar Street Bridge, featuring a variety of new activities as part of the City’s new river experience. The balcony’s edge is of dynamic quality providing a variety of spatial experiences for viewing, resting, activity, and events.

• New activities on the riverbank for increased use and popularity
• Cobblestone and riparian plantings will act as fjltration and cleansing buffers
• Changing water levels of the river will create an ever changing river edge

In St. Louis, Michael wonders, how could this view of the Arch and his hometown – from the east bank levee promenade of the Mis- sissippi – be any better? Having woken up in his downtown loft to the bright summer sunshine of this July Fourth morning, he’d jumped on his bike, headed down Washington Avenue – zigzagged through the farmer’s market at the east end already setting up and crossed the gloriously restored Eads Bridge to pick up the Great Rivers bike trail on the east bank. Cycling south along the raised esplanade between a series of islands, passing by the early morning joggers, walkers, stroll- ers, and cyclists, he can’t keep his eyes from straying across the rip- pling river. Low fmood stage today, Michael thinks, a good omen for the day’s festivities and the evening fjreworks – which, are going to be bigger and more attended than ever, now that the new Arch grounds, the Gateway Mall, and this east side park were all in place. Approach- ing the “Bend” , its tensile structured roof forms fmoating above the tree line, Michael slows and then stops for a crowd overfmowing out

• nto the path from the sloped amphitheater built out from the levee

into the river. He has a clear view down the terraces to the river stage, The East Levee Esplanade (looking south) to an assembly of people facing a black-robed judge, a single, gen- tly fmuttering American fmag, and the Arch beyond, hands over their

• hearts. “…and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, with

liberty and justice for all,” he hears. There’s a silence after the verse, and then the morning breeze picks up off the river, and a wave of ap- plause breaks out. Citizenship, Michael smiles, received in this national park, this urban garden, this new national mall – could there be a bet- ter place for it to occur? East Riverfront Section City Balcony - West Riverfront Section HISTORIC COBBLESTONE LEVEE LEONOR k. SULLIVAN BLVD. SHARED SURFACE PROMENADE ARCH GROUNDS

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East Levee Esplanade

A new destination on the river for hiking, biking, skating, resting, picnicing and other leisure activities. A major destination to experience the views up and down the River and towards the Arch. The new river experience for east St Louis, an ever changing landscape of islands formed through the rising and ebbing water levels. The sculpted landscape of the levee provides an opportunity to showcase a diverse commu- nity of native plants that exhibit different levels of adaptation to river conditions.

• A new destination for recreational, leisure and sports activities for the east side of the river
• An ever changing landscape formed by the tide of the river
• A sculpted landscape showcasing an ecologically sensitive approach to the river edge

OPERABLE GREENHOUSES RESEARCH GREENHOUSE LABORATORIES OFFICES RESEARCH LIBRARy TEACHING GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL GREENHOUSE Sky WALk

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• St. Louis Music Project

The St Louis Music Project is dedicated to the exploration of creativity and innovation in the music of St Louis, the Mississippi River and it’s region. By blending interpretative, interactive exhibitions with cutting- edge technology, SLMP captures and refmects the essence of jazz, and the blues, as well as their infmuence

• n recent music genres.
• Delivering distinctive programs using technology and media, the voices of the artists, and the

engagement of our guests

• Developing, protecting, and interpreting a diverse collection of 20th/21st century artifacts
• Providing welcoming, responsive visitor services
• Permanent and Temporary Exhibitions, Installations and Interactive Elements, Sculpture Park on

roof adjacent to Arch grounds.

• Education: Music School, Camps, Conferences, etc..
• Public Programs: Late Nights, Festivals, History Program, After Hours, etc.
• St. Louis Music Project - Axon Diagram

LISTENING AND MUSIC EXPERIMENTATION POD PERMANENT EXHIBIT POD PERFORMANCE SPACE / CHANGING EXHIBIT ARCH GROUNDS VISITOR CENTER AND ORIENTATION

In St. Louis, Joan feels, the city starts with good food. Standing at her FRESH restaurant stall on top of the Eads Bridge, looking down- river at the blooming Arch grounds and gleaming Arch, she’s pleased with her 50-mile organic menu for the day, and just as pleased to see her colleagues from around the city sharing their wealth of cuisine, fjne dining, and country cooking alongside her. The city was truly a place of cultivation. She’d done her homework before moving here from Denver, to come learn real “continental cooking” from Gerard Craft at Niche. Why, Cahokia Mounds had been at the center of the largest corn-based agricultural economy in 1100 AD, right? And Lewis and Clark had made camp and gathered their strength here in the ‘Lou before mapping the Louisiana Purchase, right? And what about the ’04 World’s Fair – ice cream cones, to be sure! True, there would always be A-B , but Schlafmy was no longer micro- at all – their appeal Washington Avenue and the St. Louis Music Project (from Eads Bridge connector, looking west) had gone national…and the Missouri and southern Illinois wine coun- try had really taken off in the last decade. The tastes of St. Louis were known, the real cultivation of the place was known. This EATS BRIDGE event proved it year in and year out: this is a city that appreciates its many fmavors, scents and cultures. Joan says to herself softly, “This is a place of cultivation,” and I like the taste of this city.

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Luther Ely Smith Square (looking east)

MAKE IT LOCAL

The Arch grounds transform from a static landscape with a fjxed object and few movement options that limit potential ways to experience the place into a dynamic landscape. In the new Arch grounds better pro- vision of access from all surrounding streets and neighborhoods is secured and a secondary new movement network connects to new public space programs that will intensify use of the entirety of the Arch Grounds.

• Ensure that people feel safer in the Arch Grounds at all times of day
• Bring some activities to the edge of the river
• Bring some activities to the under utilized southern half of the Arch grounds
• Provide multiple welcoming entrance gateways
• Make sure that there are accessible and safe places for peaceful respite
• Make sure that there are places where the meeting of people is encouraged
• All current Downtown users – working and residential – will gain much more instant and easy access

to the Arch grounds.

• The ‘ebb and fmow’ of people into the Arch grounds will intensify with more people coming to the

Rivers edge and with people spreading out and using more of the Arch grounds

• Public space programming will ensure that more activities will be taking place in physical proximity to
• ne another, providing an increased feeling of safety for users

Memorial Boulevard (looking south) Cultural Incubator (looking north) American Bottoms Discovery Trails (looking north-west) Kiener Plaza (looking east) Poplar Street Rec Park (looking east) Olive Street Crossing and Outdoor Reading Room Washington Avenue (looking east) West Riverfront - Cobblestone Levee Interventions RIVERCIRCLE : Multiple Routes and Destinations Concept Sketch : Activities SEATING AREAS

GATEWAy GEySER WASHINGTON PLAzA CATHEDRAL POPLAR STREET REC PARk

MISSISSIPPI RIVER GONDOLA RESOURCE CENTER ARCH MUSIC PROJECT LACLEDES LANDING CHOUTEAU’S LANDING ‘THE BEND’ AMPHITHEATER EADS BRIDGE OLD COURTHOUSE LOCAL PROGRAMS CHANGING EXHIBITS PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITIES CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBITS

SLIDE 8

OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

OCTOBER 15TH - 2015

GONDOLA OPENING MUSEUM OPENING

DEDICATION CEREMONY

PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION

EADS BRIDGE

PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION

ON THE MISSISSIPPI

PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION

THE MISSISSIPPI

LANDSCAPE ART OPENING

TURAL INCUBATOR

LANDSCAPE ART OPENING

CULTURAL INCUBATOR

PUBLIC ART OPENING

RAIL ART

PUBLIC ART OPENING

RAIL ART

PUBLIC ART OPENING

ARCH GROUNDS ARCH MUSEUM CHANGING EXHIBITS

PUBLIC ART OPENING

GATEWAY MALL

CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT

GATEWAY MALL

CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT

ARCH GROUNDS

CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT

MEMORIAL BLVD.

PUBLIC ART OPENING

GATEWAY MALL

STAGE 4 : SUSTAINED VITALITY

WINTER FEST

FEBRUARY 1ST

I-70 REMOVED

MEMORIAL BLVD. IMPROVEMENTS

RIVERBANKS EXTENDED

GRAND OPENING

'THE BEND' TRANSFORMED

A MULTI-PURPOSE PERFORMING ARTS VENUE

NEW METRO LINE

NORTH - SOUTH SERVICE

MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD - CHOTEAU'S LANDING

AN ARTS DISTRICT

MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD - LACLEDE'S LANDING

AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT

CARGILL TRANSFORMED INTO ARTS COLLECTIVE

CULTURAL PRODUCTION HUB

2016

BEHNISCH TEAM

TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE :

Over one hundred years ago, St. Louisans hosted the world in two linked international events, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Olympics of 1904. Over fjfty years ago,

• St. Louisans reconceived their historic riverfront in order to

erect a great national symbol – one that would refmect the ambitions and values of those prior American generations who had settled the West – and then become an interna- tionally recognized, magnetic emblem of both the city and

• nation. Now, the National Park Service and St. Louisans ini-

tiate an equal collaborative commitment to grounding their great Arch in an expanded Arch grounds: a new design for contemporary challenges, one that will not only respect those historic ambitions, but contemplate new, sustainable

• nes, for the city and for the nation. While many speak of

“sustainability” in terms of environmental awareness and responsibility or calculated, technological solutions, this civic history of St. Louis suggests another dimension to sus- tainable design – that of duration, of a lasting responsibility to multiple generations in the same place.

Beyond 2015

The momentum of urban re-invention will continue in St. Louis as more projects are realized over time.

• I-70 will be closed, traffjc diverted, and the overpass taken down. A north-south Metrolink line will be built using the existing underpass.
• Lacledes’ and Chouteau’s Landing will be developed as mixed-used neighborhoods.
• The Cargill plant will be relocated and the aging facility left behind will be converted into a new Arts District. Artists, set designers, musicians and many others will make use of the space.
• ‘The Bend’ amphitheater will be expanded to become ‘The Bend’ performing arts center with multiple stages, practice rooms, and offjces. Being directly adjacent to the new Arts District will lead to many synergies between artist and actor.
• The riverbank improvements and trail network on both sides of the river will be extended.

Arch grounds (view from north-east) Future Development Strategy Removal of remaining barriers between city and river