A few years ago, if you wanted to visit the site of Cascade Park in Chicago, designed by Claude Cormier + Associes (now CCxA), you'd find yourself near the shores of Lake Michigan at a 50-foot cliff overlooking a vacant pit bordered by a foreboding service road that led to the lakefront trail to the east. "The entire site was one giant hole," says Matthew Strange, AS LA, a principal at Confluence, the landscape architect of record for the project (Confluence was preceded by another landscape architecture firm of record, Living Habitats, from the design development phase through construction documents.) Elsewhere in the Lake-shore East high-rise district, there's a park by OJB and residential skyscrapers by Studio Gang and others, built atop parking and amenity podiums that hoist the developments over the lake. But Cascade Park was the anomaly.
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