April 8th, 2009
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A design presented by a team of students from MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning and the Wisconsin School of Business Real Estate MBA program was selected as the winning plan in the 2009 ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The announcement came Thursday, April 2, after final round presentations by teams during a public forum held at the University of Denver. The winning team received a prize of $50,000.
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According to Dennis Frenchman, head of SA+P's interdisciplinary City Design and Development Program, the scheme is "stunningly beautiful, sustainable, humane, intellectually rigorous and incredibly innovative — all in the MIT tradition of city design."
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The chamber building’s design is partially dictated by a decision from city engineers that the intersection of NW 4, Broadway and E.K. Gaylord couldn’t be redesigned. They insist E.K. Gaylord must hook directly into Broadway to ensure a smooth flow of traffic and have rejected suggestions of recreating a traditional grid intersection that would reconnect NE 3 with Robert S Kerr Avenue and allow the chamber to build a building with a more traditional urban setback from the street.
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"Enough of those things could be done at a low cost that you might start to see some results that would justify spending more money,” Ward 4 Councilman Pete White said. "I think it’s got some legs.”
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