Gehl Architects are on the team of Behnisch Architekten in the competition to to invigorate the park and areas surrounding the Gateway Arch in St Louis, USA, including the Missouri and Illinois banks of the Mississippi River.

1. RIVERCIRCLE BEHNISCH TEAM
A Strategic Perspective
The RIVERCIRCLE urban landscape concept proposes a durable framework for the evolution of
the Arch grounds within the larger milieu of St. Louis and East St. Louis addressing the many
current stakeholder interests on both sides of the river. The design strategy of the Great Rivers
Expo and the RIVERCIRCLE will provide the physical framework for visitors to experience the
many new and diverse places and events. 2015
To achieve this goal we will make sure that all planning and design proposals emerging out of
our Rivercircle! concept will be based on the close relationship between people’s natural use
of public spaces and the physical character and form of the built environment while embracing
the unique qualities of the local context on both sides of the Mississippi River. Rivercircle shall
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open up, invite and include people, provide different activities and possibilities and thereby
invite and ensure multiplicity and diversity.
2010 Great Rivers Expo Begins
Memorial Competition
1904 World’s Fair, St. Louis
1948 National Expansion
1965 National Expansion
2065 100th Anniversary
1904 Summer Olympics
2015 50th Anniversary
Memorial Opens
Celebration
Celebration
1900 1950 2000 2050
GREAT RIVERS EXPO –
INTERNATIONAL BUILDING AND LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION
The RIVERCIRCLE! | NATIONAL MALL concept, framing urban, landscape, architectural and artistic activity, emerges from a sustaining vision of
integrated regional development, an encircling strategic plan and organization we propose as the GREAT RIVERS EXPO – THE INTERNATIONAL
BUILDING AND LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION ST. LOUIS.
GREAT RIVERS EXPO is partly a building exhibition in the classic, architectural sense, but is also a federal and state-supported entity that over-
sees individual redevelopment projects and an overarching Master Plan. A variety of landscape and architecture, art projects will be developed
over time rather than developed as a single event.
The mission, mandate and timeframe illustrate the most productive contemporary thinking in the ecological and economic regeneration of a
A fragmented urban fabric Reconnected and whole once more former industrial region; the methods and designs emerging from this strategy are best described as “Sustained Vitality.”
RIVER EDGE EXTENSIONS
WASHINGTON PLAzA :
A NEW LOCAL MARkET EADS BRIDGE
MUSIC PROjECT
EAST AND WEST RIVER EDGE
GATEWAy MALL TRANSFORMATIONS NEW ARTS COLLECTIVE
GATEWAy MALL : MUSEUM ENTRy
CLOSE CHESTNUT (EVENTS)
EAST RIVERBANk : AMPHITHEATER
CULTURAL INCUBATOR RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM EXTENSION
ACCESS OVER FLOODWALL LOCAL PROGRAMS MEMORIAL GONDOLA MULTI-PURPOSE VENUE
BLVD.
TRAIL NETWORk I-70 REMOVAL
UNDER POPLAR BRIDGE :
AN URBAN SPORTS PARk
Now! : Quick Wins Before 2015 : Gaining Momentum 2015 : New Perspectives Future : Sustained Vitality
Our project does not have a completion date in 2015. We believe that the We are proposing that the city starts transforming four key entrance gate- Festival! Or: An event for St Louis. In 2015 the Arch celebrates its 50th an- Provision of a sustainable long range plan for the citizens of St Louis and
process has already started and that there are opportunities to introduce first ways into the Arch grounds immediately with low cost initiatives that take niversary. It offers an opportunity to make the Arch grounds a local destina- East St Louis. A framework plan with built in flexibility allowing for many
interventions in 2010. Our aggressive phasing strategy is not proposing a place in the right-of-way of the public in close dialogue with adjacent build- tion with new program celebrating the Arch again, new phase / Catalyst for different uses and developments in the future.
breakneck fast-track procurement method, but instead a process where legal ing stakeholders that are informed of the further phasing and process. the city with new programs and amenities, a reinterpretation of the Arch
opportunities to commence with select key ‘Quick Win’ projects are quickly grounds, a destination for the citizens of St Louis.
implemented to signal to the people of St. Louis that the process is underway.

2. BEHNISCH TEAM
Site Section - 2015
Site Plan - 2015
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Introducing and Connecting New Landscapes and Ecologies Hydrology - Stormwater Strategy Interconnected Public Space Network
Reconnecting a Fragmented Ecology Storm water Strategy RIVERCIRCLE
Reclaiming of a native landscape that celebrates the ecological history of the Bottomlands will restore the We propose a network of wetlands, bio-swales, canals and channels that capture, cleanse and reuse the site The RIVERCIRCLE traverses a series of different and ever changing landscapes and urban conditions, con-
matrix of marsh, scrub, woodlands, and seasonal floodplain to the site. The site invites visitors from across and adjacent landscape’s storm water runoff. necting them while allowing for an exciting and diverse experience.
the River to play, recreate and meander through the restored Bottomland woodlands and marshes, amongst
boardwalks, hiking trails, and picnic groves.

3. BEHNISCH TEAM
ARCH GROUNDS EXISTING
TOPOGRAPHy
DIRECT ACCESS TO THE CENTRAL LAWN
AND BASE OF ARCH
Direct Route
EXPANDED MUSEUM EXHIBITS
ARCHIVE AND SUPPORT SPACE
TOPOGRAPHICALLy
INTEGRATED CAFE
A NEW ENTRy FROM
GATEWAy MALL
Meandering Route
Arch Museum - Axon Diagram
A NEW MONUMENTALITY
CELEBRATING THE NOW
In St. Louis, Xiao Feng considers, as he rides into the city’s the riverbank in the middle of the city. A symphony is playing the final suite of Handel’s “Water Music”
downtown on the Metro Red Line from the Lambert Airport, he has on the sloping lawn underneath the overwhelming upward reach of the Arch, to a magnificent shower of
surely come to a regular American river city – small to be sure post-in- fireworks arcing out from the riverbank below and the exuberant applause of thousands of listeners and
dustrial, cultured in the more typical American ways, probably – base- onlookers spread out across the plazas, pedestrian streets and park-places in front of him. A leaflet is thrust
ball, he had heard, was nearly a religion to the citizens. But, here too into his hand : “St. Louis welcomes the world! Join us for Festival St. Louis! Join us for a celebration of the
was Boeing, and Monsanto, and the Budweiser beer company that Great Rivers! Join us for David Robertson’s St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the greatest assembly of
had sponsored the Beijing Olympics not too many years ago, and the rhythm, blues and jazz on the riverbanks! Join us at the new national mall, the Arch grounds of America!”
great research universities. The Red Line works effectively, he thinks, It is not the Fourth of July, he knows, but the citizens are out on this October night, in a celebration of the
fending off jet-lag, and there on the evening horizon is the unmistak- city itself, there are tens of thousands of people milling among rows of open air kiosks, amid scents of bar-
able illuminated Arch that is known around the world as the icon of beque, cornbread. The hotel can wait, he thinks, I may never have a chance to hear Chuck Berry again. He
the city. Fantastic, he smiles, as if the form has fallen from the sky to re-considers, humming “Johnnie B Good”: not really a regular river city after all.
Gateway Mall and the Arch Museum (looking west from the top of the Arch)
In St. Louis, Charles Charles sways, then steadies himself against are the outlines of the new Great Rivers Resource Center he’d been
the carpeted window wall atop the Arch – was it the Arch moving in told about. Suddenly, he wants to endure the cramped elevator car
the wind, or was the view that magnetic now? He’d been at the top ride back down the north leg as soon as possible, get out to the Arch
too many times before to lose his equilibrium easily. Why, he’d been Grounds, get himself re-oriented to the life of the new St. Louis. He
at the top at the very moment it became a full and connected Arch, thinks: I’ve had my balance all along – here in the life of this city.
that scorching day in ‘65 when the final triangular element had been
hoisted up and levered into place. Even in the heat, the view from A NEW MONUMENTALITY
the top that day was grand, outranking all others since then gained Our proposed new design narrative suggests a recon-
from the interior observation area – the great bowl of the Midwest ceived understanding of “monumentality,” in urban, ar-
horizon, visible for 360 degrees, was almost overwhelming: he had chitectural, and landscape architectural terms. We pro-
never felt so centered. There’s just something different in the views pose RIVERCIRCLE for the continental center, organized
west and east, more in the immediate field of his vision down below but not bounded by the flow of the great Mississippi
to both directions, that’s got him shifting his feet and craning his head River, and encircled around and across it by an aggregate
from side to side. He hears similar exclamations from the others in his of well-scaled, highly accessible, distinctive public places,
group –the construction crew veterans, brought back by the city and parks, promenades, performance stages, resource centers
the Park Service for the day’s events. To the west, in the fall twilight, and recreation fields. The River runs through it all – and is
he sees the Gateway Mall and the city’s downtown stretching west, thereby granted status as more than an economic or in-
but there’s now the new City Pavilion in front of the Old Courthouse, dustrial resource, but as a carrier of American culture, in
a new pedestrian boulevard fronting the Arch Grounds, and a new il- both real and metaphorical ways. As an organizing con-
luminated west entry to the Arch museums; Eads Bridge glows with cept, this encircling sequence of public activities, is cap-
activity and to the east, where once had been brown fields, an orches- tured by the compound noun RIVERCIRCLE.
tra is clearly performing at the new amphitheatre beyond that, there
Museum Entry Perspective (looking east)
Gateway Mall - Public Realm Plan
PROJECT AWARD
SEP. 2010
A NEW NARRATIVE WASHINGTON A
CHOUTEAU‘S LANDING SKATING COMPETITION CLOSE CHESTNUT FOR ICE SKATING A QUICK WIN
The 1947 jNEM Competition stands as a testament to a bold civic and national vision of the A QUICK WIN A QUICK WIN
future. Eero Saarinen’s narrative for his winning design, “An Imaginary Tour of the Proposed QUICK WINS - TEMPORARY EVENTS
CLOSE CHESTNUT FOR ICE SKATING
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial,” emphasized the singular, static, perfected, highly PERMANENT EVENT PLATFORMS A QUICK WIN
ARBOR DAY TREE PLANTING FAIR ST. LOUIS POPLA
visual and ultimately isolated nature of the design: this was a monument reflective of its time, EVENT / FESTIVAL A QUICK WIN JULY 4TH
technology and outlook. We live in a different world in many ways – and St. Louis is a different
PUBLIC ART AND BUILT EXHIBIT OPENINGS
city now in many ways – and we therefore propose a new design narrative to expand and in-
vigorate Saarinen and kiley’s achievements. Our design narrative cautions against conventional LAND ART AND EXHIBIT OPENINGS ESL TREE NURSERY ESTABLISHED CLOSE EADS FOR 'TASTE OF ST. LOUIS ' FOOD FES
PLANS AND TREES FOR ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION A QUICK WIN
monumental responses to the grandeur of Saarinen and kiley’s ambitions; such gestures, we LANDSCAPE / ECOLOGY QUICK WINS
believe, will not save St. Louis and its citizens. Instead, our new narrative espouses diverse and VICTORY PARTY ON EADS
LANDSCAPE / ECOLOGY PROJECTS A QUICK WIN C
multiple perspectives, a dynamic conception of city and landscape, the tactile and the experi- PO
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CITY LIFE / PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
ential, the contingent and the imperfect, all with the ambition of promoting heightened civic
STAGE 1 : NOW!
2011
identity and engaged public activity.

4. A RIVER OF CULTURE BEHNISCH TEAM
RE-ESTABLISH THE MISSISSIPPI AS A CULTURAL LIFELINE
A new visitor’s attraction and
part of the Rivercircle network,
the Gondola is designed as an
engineering marvel with cabins
of high visual transparency to
allow for maximum panoramic
viewing experience. Gondola - Concept Sketch
Mississippi River Amphitheater ‘The Bend’
Directly across from the Arch, a contemporary theater space will be embedded into the landscape of the
eastern river bank. A light tensile roof structure covers the main seating area and functions as a protective
floating canopy, a beacon on the river illuminated at night for dramatic viewing experience. ‘The Bend’,
upon successful introduction in july 2015 will host events during the summer and into the fall season fea-
turing music concerts, theater plays, and other private and public events on its floating stage.
• A new beacon of identity for the river’s East Side
• A new addition to the region’s cultural rich environment vis-a-vis the Arch
• A viewing platform to experience the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
CANOPy
VISITOR AMENITIES
CAFE / RESTAURANT, BAR,
FRANCHISE SHOPS, TICkETS
AND RECEPTION, BATHROOMS
PUBLIC PROMENADE AND
OUTDOOR FOyER
BACk-OF-HOUSE PROGRAM
WOOD BENCHES - SEATING ‘The Bend’ Amphitheater (view from the Mississippi River Gondola, looking north-east)
ELEMENTS
In St. Louis, Carol thinks, all you heard about growing up was the into a dramatic esplanade, then lacing the bridges and city streets to- A RIVER OF CULTURE
FLOATING STAGE Arch…that gleaming bend of stainless steel on the banks of the river; gether with the park, then majestically sending a line of gondola cars In many cases there has been a reluctance to abandon the
And you went dutifully to show family friends visiting from out of wafting above the river – and definitely before today, October 15, cultural capital embodied in historic centers. This has been
FLOATING SERVICE BARGE
WITH BACkSTAGE PROGRAM town, and then perhaps to Fair St. Louis on a Fourth of July weekend, 2015, the day of the ribbon cutting for the new Gateway Museum abundantly true in St Louis, despite many dire warnings
to see the fireworks arching over the river. But that was all before the below the Arch, the opening events for Festival St. Louis – the nation’s since 1947 that the central city was obsolete, doomed, and
competition, which had proposed such ideas and initiative for both largest commissioned installation of public art situated in the newly best left to ”lie fallow” for generations. Although the riv-
sides of the river before those fantastic build-up events, anticipating restored American Bottoms park on the east bank. Seeing all this from er travel and rail based reasons for the centrality of this
LANDFORM BASE
new vitality to downtown and the east and west banks of the river – the gondola car windows, hearing the exclamations of the visitors downtown have long since been superseded by the easy
really, who could have imagined Leonor K. Sullivan Drive as a riverside around her, Carol thinks, this is now, this is here, in my city, in my life availability of vehicular transportation, the river-centered
beach, or Taste St. Louis stretching across Eads Bridge – who could – a place I be proud of, a place I can come to again and again, a place city’s cultural significance in the region has not diminished.
have imagined? That was all before the construction, finally bridging of Arch and Arch grounds, a place I know as home. Activating St. Louis’ river-based downtown in a way that
the gap across the interstate, then transforming the east bank levee we now identify with urban life; with pedestrian vitality,
‘The Bend’ Amphitheater - Axon Diagram a wide range of activities, and extensive access to natural
areas along the riverfront itself is one of our key missions.
Cultural Incubator Section
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UP AND OVER - THE EAST RIVERBANK OPENING PUBLIC ART OPENING
POPLAR STREET SPORTS OPEN
AVE. MILE LONG GARAGE SALE
A QUICK WIN GATEWAY MALL
EXTREME SPORT TOURNAMENT
CYCLE PATH OPENS ESLENERGY GENERATION AND SOIL REMEDIATION
BIO-COMPOSTING OPENS
CONFLUENCE RACE
AR STREET NOISE BARRIER FAIR ST. LOUIS
ESL RIVERFRONT FLORA AND FAUNA INVENTORY
A QUICK WIN
ARBOR DAY TREE PLANTING
FAIR ST. LOUIS
POPLAR STREET CELEBRATION FESTIVAL JULY 4TH
A QUICK WIN
JULY 4TH
ARBOR DAY TREE PLANTING
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION A QUICK WIN PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION
ON THE MISSISSIPPI LIVE ON THE LEVEE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
ARCH GROUNDS CONCERT
STIVAL
LIVE ON THE LEVEE
ESL EQUINOX FESTIVAL WASHINGTON PLAZA MARKET
OPENING ESL EQUINOX FESTIVAL CHESTNUT PAVILION CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
CYCLE PATH CONSTRUCTION BEGINS I-70 CAP CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
MUSIC PROJECT CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
OPLAR STREET SPORTS CONSTRUCTION
OPLAR STREET NOISE BARRIER WASHINGTON PLAZA CONSTRUCTION EADS BRIDGE IMPROVEMENTS STUDY BEGINS
STAGE 2 : GAINING MOMENTUM
2012
2013

5. BEHNISCH TEAM
NPS CITy
ARCH GROUNDS LEONOR k. SULLIVAN BLVD. HISTORIC COBBLESTONE LEVEE
SHARED SURFACE PROMENADE
City Balcony - West Riverfront Section
City Balcony
A new experience on the River between Eads Bridge and Poplar Street Bridge, featuring a variety of new
activities as part of the City’s new river experience. The balcony’s edge is of dynamic quality providing a
variety of spatial experiences for viewing, resting, activity, and events.
• New activities on the riverbank for increased use and popularity
• Cobblestone and riparian plantings will act as filtration and cleansing buffers
• Changing water levels of the river will create an ever changing river edge
The East Levee Esplanade (looking south)
In St. Louis, Michael wonders, how could this view of the Arch ers, and cyclists, he can’t keep his eyes from straying across the rip- to an assembly of people facing a black-robed judge, a single, gen-
and his hometown – from the east bank levee promenade of the Mis- pling river. Low flood stage today, Michael thinks, a good omen for tly fluttering American flag, and the Arch beyond, hands over their
sissippi – be any better? Having woken up in his downtown loft to the the day’s festivities and the evening fireworks – which, are going to be hearts. “…and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, with
bright summer sunshine of this July Fourth morning, he’d jumped on bigger and more attended than ever, now that the new Arch grounds, liberty and justice for all,” he hears. There’s a silence after the verse,
East Riverfront Section his bike, headed down Washington Avenue – zigzagged through the the Gateway Mall, and this east side park were all in place. Approach- and then the morning breeze picks up off the river, and a wave of ap-
farmer’s market at the east end already setting up and crossed the ing the “Bend” , its tensile structured roof forms floating above the plause breaks out. Citizenship, Michael smiles, received in this national
East Levee Esplanade gloriously restored Eads Bridge to pick up the Great Rivers bike trail on
the east bank. Cycling south along the raised esplanade between a
tree line, Michael slows and then stops for a crowd overflowing out
onto the path from the sloped amphitheater built out from the levee
park, this urban garden, this new national mall – could there be a bet-
ter place for it to occur?
A new destination on the river for hiking, biking, skating, resting, picnicing and other leisure activities. A
series of islands, passing by the early morning joggers, walkers, stroll- into the river. He has a clear view down the terraces to the river stage,
major destination to experience the views up and down the River and towards the Arch. The new river
experience for east St Louis, an ever changing landscape of islands formed through the rising and ebbing
water levels. The sculpted landscape of the levee provides an opportunity to showcase a diverse commu-
nity of native plants that exhibit different levels of adaptation to river conditions.
• A new destination for recreational, leisure and sports activities for the east side of the river
• An ever changing landscape formed by the tide of the river
• A sculpted landscape showcasing an ecologically sensitive approach to the river edge
A MULTI-GENERATIONAL COMMITMENT Resource Center for the
American Bottoms / Great Rivers
A LARGER VISION CAN OVERCOME COMPLEX PROBLEMS A cutting-edge facility for interdisciplinary research, education, and productivity with focus on the many
ecologies of the Great Rivers and the American Bottoms. Defining the role of our built environment as a
helping tool for a productive re-naturalization of a depleted industrial landscape. Weaving outdoors and
indoor spaces seamlessly, self supporting and energy-neutral.
• An interdisciplinary research facility focused on the re-naturalization efforts for the American Bottoms
• A facility with the mission to research and educate
• Its mission, as an interdisciplinary facility, is to provide scientific guidance, technical assistance and
education for the preservation, conservation and enhancement of park resources within the American
Bottoms Landscapes and along the Great Rivers.
Sky WALk
OPERABLE GREENHOUSES
EXPERIMENTAL GREENHOUSE
TEACHING GREENHOUSE
RESEARCH GREENHOUSE
RESEARCH LIBRARy
OFFICES
LABORATORIES
Resource Center for the American Bottoms - Axon Diagram
Resource Center for the American Bottoms (looking west)
In St. Louis, Sasha inhales the fragrances of a really green spring her landscape architecture program at Wash U…funny name for a Multi Generational Commitment
day wafting through the air on the east side of the River: she would not school, Sasha smiles. Ha, then there was the funny name of the park- The proposal outlines a framework for a rapid, yet thought-
have missed this day for the world. Sasha remembers asking her sister lands – the American Bottoms Nature Reserve, the guide had said – ful, development that can begin now, yet will also allow
Alex to show her “a few of her favorite things”, and Alex has brought and Sasha giggles at the thought!. Funny, too, to imagine that some- future generations to continue to enhance the urban en-
her here, to this circular drum-like building in the new parklands across times this whole area had been flooded by the river, and maybe would vironment of the St Louis region. We recognize that as
the Eads Bridge, a place Alex calls the Great Rivers Resource Center, be again soon – and that that was expected to happen, that that was designers we cannot always accurately predict what the
full of flowers, and plants, and guides and lots of hands-in-the-dirt what rivers did; and now I know that’s what has to happen to make future will bring. At the same time, this project identi-
stuff to do. She’d liked the place from the start – one spiraling ramp the parklands come alive. Under the canopy of the trees, a friendly fies those aspects of living, working and urban magnetism
curved throughout the inside of the drum)…as much fun as the zoo, woman is pouring glasses of an iced drink; “it’s elderberry tea,” Alex that we know to be among the key ingredients of urban
she thinks. Alex seems to be having just as much fun, she seems to tell her, and Sasha sips the new flavor gratefully. The sun through the success. This project is intended not only for the people
know the names of just about all the plants and how they grow, and tree leaves dapples her face. Sasha inhales the fragrances again. She of St Louis today, but also for 2015, and the many genera-
what made them special to St. Louis; these were subjects she had in smiles, looks up at Alex and says brightly, “The air is green!” tions that will follow and live in this region. Resource Center Typical Floor Plan 1” = 100’
EADS UNVEILED MEMORIAL BLVD. OPENS LEONOR K. SULLIVAN TEMPORARY URBAN BEACH
I-70 CAPPED PUBLIC ART OPENING
ART FESTIVAL
PUBLIC ART OPENING
FESTIVAL
PUBLIC ART OPENING A QUICK WIN
ST. LOUIS MUSIC PROJECT
GATEWAY MALL GATEWAY MALL GATEWAY MALL
GRAND OPENING
CITY PAVILION OPENS GRAND OPENING
OLD RA
CHESTNUT STREET FESTIVAL STORMWATER DEMONSTRATION GARDEN FIRST SHOW
A QUICK WIN FAIR ST. LOUIS
JULY 4TH WINTER FEST
CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT FEBRUARY 1ST
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION GATEWAY MALL PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION
ON THE MISSISSIPPI LIVE ON THE LEVEE MEMORIAL BLVD. MEMORIAL BLVD.
ARCH GROUNDS CONCERT SERIES
EADS UNVEILED
2015
ART FESTIVAL MEMORIAL BLVD. LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT
EAST RIVERBANK PARK CONSTRUCTION BEGINS CITY BALCONY CONSTRUCTION BEGINS FIRST SHOW CELEBRATING THE NEW PUBLIC REALM
MEMORIAL BLVD. TRANSFORMATION AND PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
‚THE BEND‘ AMPHITHEATER CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
GONDOLA CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
NEW SERVICE FACILITY CONSTRUCTION BEGINS MUSEUM CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
STAGE 3 : NEW PERSPECTIVES JANUARY
2014

6. BEHNISCH TEAM
SOUTH NORTH
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St. Louis Music Project
The St Louis Music Project is dedicated to the exploration of creativity and innovation in the music of St
Louis, the Mississippi River and it’s region. By blending interpretative, interactive exhibitions with cutting-
edge technology, SLMP captures and reflects the essence of jazz, and the blues, as well as their influence
on recent music genres.
• Delivering distinctive programs using technology and media, the voices of the artists, and the
engagement of our guests
• Developing, protecting, and interpreting a diverse collection of 20th/21st century artifacts
• Providing welcoming, responsive visitor services
• Permanent and Temporary Exhibitions, Installations and Interactive Elements, Sculpture Park on
roof adjacent to Arch grounds.
• Education: Music School, Camps, Conferences, etc..
• Public Programs: Late Nights, Festivals, History Program, After Hours, etc.
ARCH GROUNDS VISITOR
CENTER AND ORIENTATION
PERMANENT EXHIBIT POD
LISTENING AND MUSIC
EXPERIMENTATION POD
PERFORMANCE SPACE / CHANGING
EXHIBIT
Washington Avenue and the St. Louis Music Project (from Eads Bridge connector, looking west)
In St. Louis, Joan feels, the city starts with good food. Standing at from Denver, to come learn real “continental cooking” from Gerard had gone national…and the Missouri and southern Illinois wine coun-
her FRESH restaurant stall on top of the Eads Bridge, looking down- Craft at Niche. Why, Cahokia Mounds had been at the center of the try had really taken off in the last decade. The tastes of St. Louis were
river at the blooming Arch grounds and gleaming Arch, she’s pleased largest corn-based agricultural economy in 1100 AD, right? And Lewis known, the real cultivation of the place was known. This EATS BRIDGE
with her 50-mile organic menu for the day, and just as pleased to see and Clark had made camp and gathered their strength here in the event proved it year in and year out: this is a city that appreciates its
her colleagues from around the city sharing their wealth of cuisine, ‘Lou before mapping the Louisiana Purchase, right? And what about many flavors, scents and cultures. Joan says to herself softly, “This is a
fine dining, and country cooking alongside her. The city was truly a the ’04 World’s Fair – ice cream cones, to be sure! True, there would place of cultivation,” and I like the taste of this city.
place of cultivation. She’d done her homework before moving here always be A-B , but Schlafly was no longer micro- at all – their appeal St. Louis Music Project - Axon Diagram
PUBLIC ART OPENING RESOURCE CENTER CITY BALCONY PUBLIC ART OPENING
GATEWAY MALL GRAND OPENING GRAND OPENING ARCH GROUNDS
ARCH GROUNDS TREE REPLACEMENT
AIL TRACK ART PLATFORM ARCH GROUNDS PUBLIC SPACE NETWORK TRANSFER CEREMONY
W CELEBRATING ESL INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE GRAND OPENING
EQUINOX FEST
CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT MARCH 31ST CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT CHANGING LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT CHANGING LA
MEMORIAL BLVD. GATEWAY MALL MEMORIAL BLVD. ARCH GROUNDS PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION GATEWAY MALL
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION MEMORIAL BLVD. GATEWAY MALL
EADS BRIDGE
LANDSCAPE ART OPENING
CULTURAL INCUBATOR EAST RIVERBANK PARK ARCH GROUNDS LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT
GRAND OPENING FIRST SHOW CELEBRATING THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF MISSISSIPPI
RESOURCE CENTER CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY