Originally designed by architect Daniel Burham in 1903, the Cleveland Downtown Mall is revived through the Connecting Downtown Cleveland Master Plan. In an effort to reestablish the urban heart of downtown Cleveland, the plan restores the relationships between the downtown’s civic spaces, streets, and promenades to its lakefront. The Master Plan, inspired by this original example of Burham’s City Beautiful movement, reconnects the city fabric to its central mall, allowing new urban activities throughout the year to reinvigorate a once forgotten landscape.

Work completed at Gustafson Guthrie Nichol while Derek Hoetmer was employed as a landscape designer.

©Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

LOCATION / Cleveland, OH

CLIENT / Group Plan Commission

DATE / 2014

TEAM / LMN Architects

PRESS

“Downtown Cleveland Plan / Gustafson Guthrie Nichol,” Hank Jarz. Arch Daily, January 3, 2011.

“Cleveland's new Group Plan Commission has a year to build a new vision for the downtown Mall,” Steven Litt. October 6, 2010.