Pierscape at Navy Pier Phase II Design Team Organization + ...
Pierscape at Navy Pier Phase II Design Team Organization + ...
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<strong>Design</strong> Approach +<br />
Philosophy<br />
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Pride of place<br />
<strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Pier</strong> is an extension of Chicago. Therein lies its uniqueness. It reflects the city’s<br />
rich and varied past and projects its inimitable character: its composite brawn<br />
and grace. <strong>Team</strong> X seeks to amplify and invigor<strong>at</strong>e the <strong>Pier</strong>’s connection to the city<br />
and the city’s connection to the <strong>Pier</strong>. G<strong>at</strong>eway Park will be positioned as a g<strong>at</strong>eway<br />
to the <strong>Pier</strong> and adjacent lakefront, as well as a g<strong>at</strong>eway (back) to the city streets.<br />
Its role will be welcoming and accommod<strong>at</strong>ing. It will be a sensory place to be in its<br />
own right: a place to meet, experience, connect, revisit, and remember.<br />
<strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Pier</strong> welcomes and engages visitors year-round, in any conditions: its views<br />
are incomparable: snowscape: beachscape: landscape: autumnscape: springscape:<br />
Chicagoscape: <strong><strong>Pier</strong>scape</strong>.<br />
The site abounds with elemental design m<strong>at</strong>erial, which <strong>Team</strong> X will draw from,<br />
harness, and/or incorpor<strong>at</strong>e these elements into its design: the <strong>Pier</strong>’s unique<br />
loc<strong>at</strong>ion: its physical and metaphysical rel<strong>at</strong>ionship and proximity to the city:<br />
its position in and rel<strong>at</strong>ionship to Lake Michigan: the unique play of elements th<strong>at</strong><br />
distinguish and characterize the place: w<strong>at</strong>er, wind, land, sky, sun, moon, stars,<br />
beachfront, parkland, horizon: the palette of four seasons. All there for the taking.<br />
<strong>Team</strong> X envisions a dynamic place fe<strong>at</strong>uring a range of social and cultural activities<br />
as well as sustained moments of quiet reflection and repose.<br />
Chicago has one of the finest collections of public art in the country. <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Pier</strong> will<br />
be no exception. A combin<strong>at</strong>ion of permanent and temporary art install<strong>at</strong>ions, instig<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
by the uniqueness of the city and its memorable surrounds, will be an integral<br />
part of the new design.<br />
<strong>Team</strong> X will cultiv<strong>at</strong>e the n<strong>at</strong>ural aqu<strong>at</strong>ic system and seasonal hydrology of the Lake<br />
Michigan shoreline so visitors can experience one of Chicago’s primary n<strong>at</strong>ural<br />
assets: as fresh w<strong>at</strong>er: ice: mist: vapor: and expansive open space.
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