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What CAN CIVIC CENTER BECOME for the next 100 years?
What CAN CIVIC CENTER BECOME for the next 100 years?
The world’s greatest communities are defined by timeless public spaces where people gather, connect and belong. Now more than ever, active spaces are critical to the mental and physical health of a city’s residents as well as its economy. For Denver, their crown jewel is Civic Center.
Located at the heart of the city and surrounded by many of our key civic and cultural institutions, Civic Center has served as Denver’s most significant gathering place for cultural events, festivals, and First Amendment rallies for over 100 years. As Denver’s first National Historic Landmark the city must honor Civic Center’s history as it envisions its future.
Civic Center Next 100 takes the 2005 Civic Center Master Plan and brings it to life for the people of Denver today and the generations to come.
Bannock Street Concept Design was completed as part of the overall Civic Center Next 100 Conceptual Design effort.
Civic Center next 100
Civic Center next 100
A vision of Four integrated Projects
A vision of Four integrated Projects
Improvements to Civic Center will catalyze new activity and animate this park the heart of Denver. The transformation of four key areas will fulfill past community-driven planning visions and elevate Denver’s first National Historic Landmark for the next 100 years by providing new energy, world-class performances, and events.
Vision Statement
Vision Statement
Improvements to Civic Center will catalyze new activity and animate the heart of Denver. The transformation of four key areas will fulfill past planning visions and elevate Denver’s First National Historic Landmark for the next 100 years with new daily energy, world-class performances, and events.
Improvements to Civic Center will catalyze new activity and animate the heart of Denver. The transformation of four key areas will fulfill past planning visions and elevate Denver’s First National Historic Landmark for the next 100 years with new daily energy, world-class performances, and events.
Guiding Principles
Guiding Principles
Enliven Civic Center as a place for people. Make it active, engaging, welcoming, and comfortable to everyone (children, residents, visitors, tourists, workers) every day.
Elevate Civic Center to form a prominent destination centered around distinct cultural and community anchors.
Celebrate the historic significance of the Civic Center landmark.
Incorporate resilient design to ensure Civic Center is a model for successful urban ecology, sustainability, and long-term vitality for the next 100 years.
Unify Civic Center by implementing city-wide connectivity visions to link to surrounding cultural, recreational, and civic spaces and reinforcing physical and visual connections to the surrounding district.
Bannock Street
Bannock Street
An Event Space and Extension of the Park Balanced with Human-Scale Elements for Daily Use
An Event Space and Extension of the Park Balanced with Human-Scale Elements for Daily Use
design Objectives
design Objectives
Maintain central open plaza area for events in front of the City and County Building as the primary element of the space.
Ensure a secure perimeter while also providing vehicular access to the event plaza and interior park spaces via the McNichols parking area.
Balance the needs of an event market and daily comfort in the north and south areas.
Function as a bike and pedestrian transportation corridor during all but the biggest events.
Creating Three different experiences for users
Creating Three different experiences for users
Bannock Street is organized around three major spaces for people making it inclusive and welcoming for all.
The Central Plaza and City and County Building Plaza
The Central Plaza and City and County Building Plaza
The reimagined Bannock Street creates a vibrant public space and reinforces connections between the City and County Building and Civic Center Park. The redesign provides a grand entry to the City and County Building with a flexible central plaza, interactive water feature, and garden rooms. The concept design balances events and daily civic needs and services.
New Celebrated Water Features
New Celebrated Water Features
The arched water feature frames the view to the City and County Building, and the scrim water feature spreads a thin sheet of water next to the Great Lawn creating a reflective and engaging surface. Additionally, movable seating is located along the edges for gathering and enjoyment.
A Public Space to Exprience at Night
A Public Space to Exprience at Night
Bannock Central Plaza is alive into the evening hours with lighting, complementing the City and County Building lighting.
A Plaza for Major Celebrations and Events
A Plaza for Major Celebrations and Events
Bannock Central Plaza is sized to be flexible and accommodate the largest events. The water feature can turn off and a stage can be placed within in the plaza area making it a multi-purpose space.
The Bike and Pedestrian Promenade
The Bike and Pedestrian Promenade
An Active and Flexible Space for Everyday and Events
An Active and Flexible Space for Everyday and Events
The bike and pedestrian promenade is an active and flexible space for everyday and events. It creates a people-oriented space through its curbless street design, high quality pavement, and no through access for cars. Also, on the western edge nearest to the City and County Building, there is a pedestrian only path to ensure ADA access through the space.
An Everyday Space Designed for Daily Needs and Civic Services
An Everyday Space Designed for Daily Needs and Civic Services
The promenade creates an everyday space for bikes and people, however it is also a space that supports daily needs and civic services such as the shower truck, blood drive, voter registration, and other civic services.
A Promenade for Festivals and Temporary Activities
A Promenade for Festivals and Temporary Activities
The promenade is designed for festivals and tents as well. It is large enough to maintain ADA access near the City and County Building, as well as provide space for tents, staging behind the tents, and pedestrian access in front of the tents.
The Garden Rooms
The Garden Rooms
A variety of space to enjoy and relax with trees, shade, and planting areas
A variety of space to enjoy and relax with trees, shade, and planting areas
The garden rooms, along the eastern edge of Bannock Street, are an extension of the park expressing the native sustainable landscape and providing space to relax and enjoy the park.
The north kiosk near Colfax Ave is intended to serve as a location to help with access control for Bannock Street. The kiosk just to the south of the central plaza and water feature is intended to be location for food and beverage in the long-term. In the near-term, the kiosk could offer game rentals or other activation.
The specifics related to ongoing operations will be determined during future phases of work.
The Gateways
The Gateways
The design of Bannock Street will put people first. The spaces created make it accessible and welcoming for all. New gateway elements will be provided, on both the north and south sides, that could be public art or signage drawing people into the space to enjoy every day.
About Livable Cities Studio
About Livable Cities Studio
Livable Cities Studio is an urban design, planning and landscape architecture studio committed to building cities for lived experiences that celebrate social connection and inclusivity.
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