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Apr 18, 2018

Detroit West Riverfront Park International Landscape Competition News

The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy has selected Michael Van Valkenburgh and David Adjaye of Adjaye/Associates as the winners of a $50-million competition to redesign a 22-acre park along the Detroit River.
The proposal’s centerpiece a beach within a cove protected by a jetty that juts diagonally into the waterway.
Detroit West Riverfront Park landscape design:

image courtesy Michael Van Valkenburgh The site is part of the Conservancy?s plan for a five and a half-mile stretch of waterfront west of Belle Isle to the Ambassador Bridge. The land contains former factories and rail yards abandoned as Detroit collapsed into bankruptcy in 2013.
The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, which builds and manages the RiverWalk, announced Tuesday April 10th, 2018 that it has selected Brooklyn-based Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates to design the 22-acre west riverfront park in Detroit.
The park is estimated to cost $50 million, with the money to be raised through donations, and it should be finished in four to five years.

image courtesy Michael Van Valkenburgh
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been working with the Detroit Riverfront Conservanc...