This better be good. The southern alignment concept is all but scrapped. ODOT’s whittled its bridge architecture design plans from 11 to 3 for the infamous Innerbelt Bridge that spans the Cuyahoga River. Two designs are cable-stay. One design consists of a steel arch.

That’s right, there are now three design teams in the world that make the grade. Three visionary agencies uniquely qualified to drive the future of highway experience for Northeast Ohio, for generations to come.

Continue reading ‘ODOT’s Bridge from a Hole in the Ground’

Listen, every urban happenstance bears the best and worst of what man has to offer. Let’s not pretend Greater Cleveland is any different from New York, San Francisco, Toronto, or London in this regard.

The difference is, these metropolitan Mecca’s know what design means. They’ve grown skilled at a) building great stories b) changing with confidence and (this one’s fundamental) c) they use design to reinvent themselves, over and over and over.

Continue reading ‘Cleveland: Made by Design’

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