The Nord Family Greenway is a bold landscape that reinvigorates historic Rockefeller Park as a mixing ground, linking Case Western Reserve University’s main and West campuses across the front of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The project began as an idea for a bridge that would connect these two geographies, and a design competition was subsequently arranged to explore alternative ideas. Rather than flying over the underused, unsafe, and overgrown park with a bridge, The Greenway opens up the ground plane as a major new civic space. Not only does it serve several significant adjacent institutions, but also becomes an important public space for the Hough Neighborhood to the West. The Greenway sensitively engages and reinvigorates a series of cultural remains, including the Chinese Cultural Garden and Fine Arts Garden, originally designed by the Olmsted Brothers, to fold into the overall vision.

Work completed at Sasaki while Kevin Cunningham was employed as a landscape architect.

©Sasaki

LOCATION / Cleveland, OH

CLIENT / Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Foundation

DATE / 2018

PRESS

“The Nord Family Greenway,” CWRU. case.edu. 2019.

“Can University Circle’s beautiful new Nord Greenway heal a racial divide?,” Steven Litt. cleveland.com. 30 January 2019.