Phases of development for the Jane Addams Nobel Peace Park project
- Millennium Park, Lurie Garden and Maggie Daley Park will all remain in their current locations.
- Buckingham Fountain will be moved eastward into Lake Michigan as a historic centerpiece of the future Jane Addam’s Nobel Peace Park.
- Northerly Island’s landfill will be redistributed north as new parkland creating the connection to Buckingham Fountain.
- Soil removal from Jackson Drive to Roosevelt Road will provide the required landfill for the Jane Addams Nobel Peace Park east of Lake Shore Drive.
- The Art Institute of Chicago’s campus will double in area to include the eastern side of Columbus Drive and the existing land of Grant Park.
- Construction of new architecture developments between Jackson Drive to Roosevelt Road will begin.
Jane Addams’s edge project for the Chicago lakefront radically repositions not only real estate, but embodies and reflects the instrumental contributions women have made in social reform efforts for the growth of the city’s ideals. Renaming and reconstructing the lakefront formerly known as Grant Park will become a symbol of social equality projecting the city forward as a model for others as how to distribute constructed public lands nationally and globally.
This is a multi-phased project transforming both the existing Grant Park and the lakefront edge of Lake Shore Drive (LSD), into the newly constructed Jane Addams Nobel Peace Park. (Chicagoan Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.) The phases of the development will completely reconfigure the lakefront into parkland and recreational areas east of the similarly artificially created Grant Park of the late 19th Century and LSD. Jane Addams Nobel Peace Park is a vision for the growth of the city into the 21st Century by landfilling both interior and exterior edges eastbound of existing conditions as a demonstration of forward thinking urban design. It should be noted that the Jane Addams Nobel Peace Park proposal critically opposes both UrbanLab’s “Filter Island”, and Porturbanism’s “Big Shift” projects in one major aspect…cause and effect. Both UrbanLab’s and Porturbanism’s projects neglect to answer one simple question of where the required landfill will come from for such large developments. In contrast, all of the landfill for the Jane Addams Nobel Peace Park will come from Northerly Island and the newly constructed architecture between Jackson Drive and Roosevelt Road. (i.e. The World Trade Center development in New York City created all the landfill required for Battery Park City, also an urban edge condition project.) Jane Addams Nobel Peace Park situates itself into the overall context of Chicago’s expanding lakefront edge condition by simultaneously referencing its historic precedents and acting as an environmentally efficient model.
Location: Chicago, IL.
T. Joseph Surjan - design scientist & writer
S. Hjelte Fumanelli - project architect & digital modeling
T. Joseph Surjan - design scientist & writer
S. Hjelte Fumanelli - project architect & digital modeling