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CLEVELAND CIVIC CORE Burnham Mall / Convention Center / Global Center for Health Innovation Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Burnham Mall / Convention Center / Global Center for Health Innovation LMN CLEVELAND CIVIC CORE Burnham Mall, Convention Center, and Global Center for Health Innovation CLEVELAND, OHIO Cleveland’s Civic Core is rebuilt with strategic infrastructure that supports and Location and Completion enriches both the historic vision and the contemporary community. Cleveland, Ohio 2013 Catalyst for Economic and Urban Renewal in Cleveland Cleveland’s new Convention Center and Global Center for Health Innovation (GCHI) Client plays a pivotal role in the rust belt city’s shift from heavy industry to a medical MMPI technology-based economy. The new $465 million project includes a major renovation and restoration of the city’s signature public open space, the historic Burnham Mall. Architect A new park on top of the below-grade Convention Center also provides much needed LMN: Design Architect green space to meet the needs of an influx of residents moving back into the city URS: Design Build Architect center. Project Size 235,000 sf Medical Mart and Entry Following a decades-long decline in population, from a high of 914,808 in 1950 to Pavilion 396,815 in 2010, Cleveland was searching for economic development and a new urban 767,000 sf Convention Center vision. The new Convention Center and GHCI was conceived as a way to leverage the city’s reputation as a medical research hub centered on the Cleveland Clinic. Project Cost $465 Million LMN began working with the Cleveland Planning Commission in 1998 on a feasibility and site selection study for the new Convention Center. At the time, the Convention Awards 2013 AIA Seattle Chapter Honor Award Center was in the 1922 Public Auditorium with an exhibition hall built under the Mall in 2012 AIA Washington Civic Design 1932. Although the facility would be out of commission for several years while the new Award of Merit, Unbuild project was under construction, the existing site was selected due to the opportunity Category it presented to reinvigorate downtown through an increase in visitors, activity and an improved urban green space. Taxpayers financed the project through a quarter-cent sales tax increase in 2007 and there was a one percent tax added to hotel rooms in 2010. The new 767,000-square-foot Cleveland Convention Center seamlessly weaves together architecture and landscape. LMN worked closely with landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) to create a design that integrates architecture and landscape. The new lawn gently slopes up to become the Lakeside Lift: a platform with dramatic views of Lake Erie that also introduces a new view back toward the city skyline. Cleveland Burnham Mall / Convention Center / Global Center for Health Innovation LMN Design Approach The 235,000-square-foot GCHI is the first medical merchandise mart associated with a convention center in the country, and the only facility in the world targeted specifi- cally to the medical and healthcare industries. The GCHI houses permanent show- rooms for medical device manufacturers and suppliers. The Burnham Mall Cleveland’s civic center is one of the most completely realized examples of the City Beautiful movement. In 1907, Cleveland’s civic leaders hired Daniel Burnham to create the central mall, a large, civic, park-like space, flanked by major civic and government buildings on a bluff above Lake Erie. One hundred years later, the new Civic Core Project restores and reinvigorates Burnham’s original vision while reimagining it for the 21st century. Burnham’s neo-classical design was formal and symmetrical, with hardscape defining and bisecting green spaces. The original central open space was slightly below street level, and citizens promenaded around it’s perimeters but did not walk on the lawn. This project transforms the ceremonial space to recreational uses to reflect changes in the use of public space. An influx of new residents in Cleveland’s city center has increased the demand for park space, and the re-envisioned Mall is now an active open space supporting everything from individual exercise to civic gatherings. New lighting allows for nightime recreational activities and long-term plans include basketball courts, exercise areas and playgrounds along the edges of the lawn. The new project weaves together a major public assembly building, a medical equipment showrooms and a city park. The Convention Center attracts visitors and activity to downtown while the re-envisioned Mall creates recreational space for an influx of new residents. Located under the park, the Convention Center preserves and enhances views of Lake Erie. The landscaped roof over the Exhibition Hall slopes up to create a new entry into the Convention Center along Lakeside Avenue. The glazed entry along Lakeside captures views and allows daylight to penetrate into the facility. Overhead, the roof structure becomes the Lakeside Lift: a public belvedere that provides panoramic views of Lake Erie as well as back toward the city skyline. Cleveland Burnham Mall / Convention Center / Global Center for Health Innovation LMN Design Approach cont’d The Cleveland Convention Center The Convention Center is designed to accommodate a wide variety of industry trade shows, as well as to work in combination with the Global Center for Health Innovation for health care industry conventions. The programmatic layout supports simultaneous events, with direct access to meeting facilities from the exhibition hall and GCHI showrooms. The design team incorporated several day lighting strategies to optimize the amount of natural light infusing the below-grade facility. In addition to the entry pavilion, clerestory windows light the concourse linking the entry pavilion to the GCHI. The Ballroom, located at the north end of the site overlooking Lake Erie, is designed to give the facility a distinguished edge in the convention center industry. The Ballroom’s interior design focuses on flexibility, allowing the owner to create a variety of environments depending on the specifics of the event. Light trusses can be rigged for music performance, theatrical events, fashion shows, and social gatherings. Global Center for Health Innovation The Global Center for Health Innovation is the first medical merchandise showroom facility associated with a convention center in the country, and the only facility in the world targeted specifically to the medical and healthcare industries. Medical convention attendees are able to go next door to the GHCI to view and experiment with the latest in health care technology. Though it is rare for a public convention center to unite with a private commercial enterprise, the GCHI will make Cleveland’s new convention center a top draw for medical conventions. It leverages the city’s reputation as a medical research hub centered on the Cleveland Clinic. This strategy was a selling point for the community that financed the Convention Center through a sales tax increase. The five-level GCHI is on the historic Burnham Mall at the intersection of St. Clair Avenue and Ontario Street and sits directly over a portion of the new exhibition hall. A four-story glazed atrium faces the Mall, keeping with the monumental scale of the civic and government buildings that line it. The building skin consists of a system of custom pre-cast concrete panels and windows that address the scale and detail of neighboring buildings while reflecting the state-of-the-art medical technology companies inside. Cleveland Burnham Mall / Convention Center /Global Center for Health Innovation LMN Design Approach cont’d Inside, the atrium serves as a special events space wrapped by 20,000-square-feet of meeting rooms. From the atrium visitors can see both into the convention center’s below-grade exhibition hall and out onto the Mall. The GCHI shares circulation, parking and mechanical systems with the convention center. In addition to individual company showrooms, there is an educational hub with themed areas showcasing healthcare innovations. On the first level there is a 2,500-square-foot “home of the future” that features technology on home-based patient care. The second floor demonstrates a patient’s experience in medical settings and the third floor is collaboration between university hospitals and manufactures to further the future of imaging. The non-profit Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is on the fourth floor. The combination of companies and exhibits will draw doctors, healthcare professionals and hospital administrators who want to learn about the latest in medical technology. Cleveland Burnham Mall / Convention Center / Global Center for Health Innovation LMN Architect LMN provides comprehensive planning and design services for higher education facilities, cultural arts venues, convention centers, commercial and mixed-use developments, interiors, and urban plans that celebrate and enrich communities. The firm is widely recognized for distinctive, integrated design solutions that are highly responsive to specific social, cultural, economic and environmental influences. For more information, visit www.lmnarchitects.com. The firm’s multidisciplinary 100-person team includes architects, interior designers, and urban planners with projects throughout the United States and 6 foreign countries. LMN has been recognized for its ability to deliver outstanding design for civic and public buildings, while seamlessly navigating the complexities