Network Reset: Rethinking the Chicago Emerald Necklace is an international competition organized by MAS Studio & Chicago Architectural Club that seeks to provide ideas and actions that can reactivate the Boulevard System of Chicago and rethink its potential role in the city.
Read on for winners and more on the competition.
“Emerald Necklace”, established in reference to the 1893 World Columbian Exposition, is composed by a series of streets and parks, some of them designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and William Le Baron Jenney. Today, this underutilized and underfunded area is a site for fresh ideas on a vision of Chicago. It questions the use of open space, whether for transportation, recreation, active or passive programs and a potential visual identity for the city as an economic or social catalyst. The following projects have been selected as the winners of the competition:
