Jackson Park Mobility Improvements
Architectural and site design to promote connectivity and context within a nationally-significant park.
JLK is the lead Transportation and Historic Preservation Architect providing full-service design and construction administration for mobility improvements within Jackson Park. The project includes full design and specifications for precast concrete cladding elements to be installed at two concrete span pedestrian underpasses beneath Hayes Drive and Cornell Drive and a third underpass below Hayes Drive near Lake Shore Drive. The concrete span underpasses were designed and built by other firms as part of the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) development and associated improvements within Jackson Park.
JLK conducted historic research and a contextual study of the park prior to initiating design. The project designs were informed by the surrounding landscape and historic infrastructure within Jackson Park, the new OPC, the verticality of the Chicago skyline, the lakefront and prairie setting, and the historic 63rd Street beach house. JLK worked closely with the State Historic Preservation Office to coordinate design and compliance with the Memorandum of Agreement in place for the project.
Jackson Park is a nationally-significant landscape located along Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago. The park was originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1871. Olmsted later redesigned the park in 1893 to serve as the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition. While the site was transformed back to a park following the fair, some features of the event still remain, including the Museum of Science and Industry (built as the Fine Arts Palace for the fair), the Garden of the Phoenix, and a smaller version of the original Statue of The Republic.
JLK is the lead Transportation and Historic Preservation Architect providing full-service design and construction administration for mobility improvements within Jackson Park. The project includes full design and specifications for precast concrete cladding elements to be installed at two concrete span pedestrian underpasses beneath Hayes Drive and Cornell Drive and a third underpass below Hayes Drive near Lake Shore Drive. The concrete span underpasses were designed and built by other firms as part of the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) development and associated improvements within Jackson Park.
JLK conducted historic research and a contextual study of the park prior to initiating design. The project designs were informed by the surrounding landscape and historic infrastructure within Jackson Park, the new OPC, the verticality of the Chicago skyline, the lakefront and prairie setting, and the historic 63rd Street beach house. JLK worked closely with the State Historic Preservation Office to coordinate design and compliance with the Memorandum of Agreement in place for the project.
Jackson Park is a nationally-significant landscape located along Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago. The park was originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1871. Olmsted later redesigned the park in 1893 to serve as the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition. While the site was transformed back to a park following the fair, some features of the event still remain, including the Museum of Science and Industry (built as the Fine Arts Palace for the fair), the Garden of the Phoenix, and a smaller version of the original Statue of The Republic.
