SELECTED DESIGNS
Of the six finalists, Endres Ware was chosen as the 1st Prize winner by a distinguished panel of seven (7) jurors. Endres Ware is an architecture and engineering firm based in Berkeley, California.
The jury commended the Endres Ware proposal as an elegant solution that is structurally viable and that respects and enhances the West End Bridge while incorporating multiple new access routes and providing opportunities for lingering and strolling, giving people in Pittsburgh access to the water and to the views of the city and the rivers in a way that has never before been possible.
COMPETITION WINNER
Endres Ware
Selected Project Views
Jury Comments
“The Endres Ware project honors its connection with the original bridge with a design that is straightforward, graceful, and bright. There is a connection to the neighboring communities that will continue to develop in the project's physical design and with the lighting design. The pedestrian bridge weaves together the elements of the bridge, the Park, and the surrounding communities in an elegant and hopeful way.”
“The project celebrates the integrity of the existing West End Bridge and builds on a very distinguished history that this space has enjoyed and is unique to the life of Pittsburgh. It connects to the neighboring communities in interesting ways in its proposed ramp system and with its lighting scheme.”
“The design is visually exciting yet simple and is elegant in its simplicity. It has ever-changing views and will be interesting to experience from different perspectives.”
2ND PRIZE
La Dallman Architects
Comments
“There is excitement in the pathway - as it moves under the bridge and in and out on both sides. This is an interesting reinterpretation of what a bridge can do as a pathway not simply as a place to go from one point to another.”
3RD PRIZE
West 8 Urban Design And Landscape Architecture
Comments
“There is something wonderful about the simplicity of the idea - that the bridge is presented as an extension of the existing structure and that it is seemingly invisible but then changes depending on ones vantage point.”
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