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Architect Tasked with Redoing Navy Pier to Talk Grand Ideas at Logan Center

By Sam Cholke | September 29, 2014 5:20am
  James Corner, who designed the High Line park in New York, will talk about re-imagining Navy Pier for its 100th anniversary.
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HYDE PARK — James Corner, who is charged with re-imaging Navy Pier for its 100th anniversary, will share his design philosophy on Oct. 2 at the Logan Center for the Arts.

Corner will give a talk “The Ecological Imagination: Life and the Design of Urban Public Space” at 6 p.m. at the art center at 915 E. 60th St. on the University of Chicago campus. The talk is part of the fourth annual "Thinking into the Future: The Robie House Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas" symposium.

James Corner Field Operations and Architects was selected in 2012 to lead a revival of the pier with $55 million in public funding backing.

Corner’s firm has presented a vision for the pier that includes an undulating staircase reminiscent of the Spanish Steps in Rome, a splash pond that converts to an ice rink in the winter and a slender glass tower all among lushly vegetated pavilions.

Before winning the Navy Pier project, the British-born architect led the creation of the High Line in Manhattan, which converted a former elevated railway into a meandering parkway.

Corner also has a new book out, “The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner 1990-2010.”

Tickets are $25, $20 for members of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust and university faculty and staff and $5 for students. Tickets can be purchased at flwright.org.

A cocktail reception will precede the lecture at 5 p.m.

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