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Art2Architecture in collaboration with DPA Lighting is the winner
of an international competition for the public realm design-led
lighting strategy of the Three Rivers Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- the largest river front regeneration project in the USA.
The shoreline and the confluence of the three rivers: Monongahela,
Allegheny and Ohio will be developed to form a unique substantive
public realm as a part
of a regeneration strategy addressing the almost total absence of the steel
making industry in the area at present. As important as the shoreline's connection
with the water is the park's
connection with the land and neighbourhoods helping the entire region to
reinvent its identity and relationships with the rivers, firmly establishing
them in
their rightful place as centres of community life.
The Three Rivers Park project is already associated with extensive
new developments such as the recently completed Convention Centre
by Rafael Vinoly Architects
and two new sports stadiums. Art2Architecture will build on work already
undertaken by Chan Krieger Associates and Hargreaves Landscape Architects.
The project
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commissioned by the Riverlife Task Force, an umbrella organization representing
the private and public organisations and investors in Pittsburgh. |
