ClevelandDesignCity

The sudden proposal by MMPI of Chicago to build the medical mart at the north end of downtown Cleveland’s public Mall is an architectural shocker.

But it need not be an architectural stinker.

If carried out with brilliance — and that’s the big if– a medical mart on the north end of the Mall could give the century-old public space the vitality and completeness it has never had because it was never truly finished.

In 1903, Chicago architect Daniel Burnham and the Group Plan Commission designed the Mall as the centerpiece of a Beaux-Arts civic center framed by neoclassical civic and government buildings… (go to article)