DESIGN l Walter Hood Awarded Public Art Project at New Arena
Acclaimed landscape architect Walter J. Hood - the April 20 speaker at the CDCP's Design Excellence Lecture Series - designed the award-winning submission for the Garden Passage pedestrian walkway at the new Consol Energy Center. Walter Hood's design for the $1.5 million project was one of 28 submitted for review to the Sports & Exhibition Authority selection committee. His vision, "Curtain Call," is 15-feet tall stainless steel curtains embedded with thousands of photographs inspired by August Wilson's ten Pittsburgh Cycle plays, according to a recent story in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Ferns, ash trees, dogwoods, and other vegetation also will be planted along the pathway. As he stated to the audience at the recent Design Excellence Lecture Series, civic engagement is important to Walter Hood's design process; he will be working with Hill District neighbors and others to select the pictures for the steel panels.
Additionally, Walter Hood was selected recently to develop a plan - including a public participation process for Greenprint, a green initiative currently taking place in the Hill District as part of Find the Rivers! project. Find the Rivers!, which has received two CDCP Design Fund planning grants, is a collaboration of Hill House Association, the Hill District Consensus Group, Community Partners Institute, and Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. Walter Hood's Greenprint plan is targeted for completion by the end of the summer.
CONTENT l Commentary from Design Professionals Available
Four articles written by RenPlan® program consultants are available to community organizations for publication! Available articles include: The Value of Original Wood Windows; A Master Plan for Your Home; and Outdoor Living Spaces: A Logical Approach written by Fred Fargotstein. The fourth article, written by Rich Liberto, is called Reworking an Old, Overgrown Landscape, and was featured in the April Edition of Southside Slopes Newsletter, and May editions of Polish Hill Voice and the Mexican War Streets Journal. For more information on how you can access these articles for your neighborhood newsletters, please contact Kate McGlynn at kmcglynn@cdcp.org or 412.391.4333.
WELCOME l Volunteer Consultants Continue to Grow RenPlan® Team
On April 30, 2009, four design professionals were introduced into the RenPlan® program by attending the new consultant orientation. New consultants include: Ruth Anderson, Leed® AP; Andrew Novak; Jennifer Rogers, Leed® AP; and Yaso Snyder. Design professionals holding a degree in architecture, landscape architecture, or interior design are eligible to be a RenPlan® Program volunteer consultant. For more information, please contact Zack Ambrose at zambrose@cdcp.org or 412.391.4333.
ON THE ROAD l PPND Retreat and ACD Conference Attract CDCP Staff
Anne-Marie Lubenau, AIA, traveled to Morgantown, West Virginia on May 7 and May 8 to attend the Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development (PPND) Board Retreat on behalf of the Pittsburgh Community Development Collaborative.
Anne-Marie will be presenting at the Association for Community Design's annual conference in Rochester, New York. Joining Anne-Marie at the June 4 through 7 conference will be Andrea Lavin, LEED® Green Associate and Zack Ambrose, who will be presenting a session on providing more community design programs with less resources.
mission The Community Design Center of Pittsburgh (CDCP) is a non-profit organization that improves quality of life through good design of the built environment. By 2015, our goal is to establish Pittsburgh as a recognized place where good design of the built environment is a
