Chicago Riverfront

Chicago River
Chicago Riverwalk Strategic Plan

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, Urban Design Studio
Design Partner: Philip Enquist
Design Director: Douglas Voigt
Urban Design Associate: Elena Stevanato
Urban Designer: Jae Min Lee, Mathew Steigmeier

Implementation:
Sasaki Associates Ross Barney Architects

Photographs:
Kate Joyce Studios

The Main Branch of the Chicago River has been largely ignored by the development of facinating skyline. Prior to the Chicago Department of Transportation and Ross Barney Architects Phase One of the Riverwalk, SOM Urban Design Studio carried out the conceptual design of the meandering Chicago Riverwalk in 2007. Daniel Burnham introduced a new civic vision of riverside promenades with the addition of the Wacker Drive viaduct. Over the last decade, the role of the river has been evolving with the Chicago Riverwalk. After 8 years, a team of talented architects and landscape architects from Ross Barney Architects and Sasaki Associated successfully implemented the full length of Chicago Riverwalk.