I. M. Pei's Erieview plan stands out in bright shades against the darker hue of the traditional downtown district to its south. Like the Group Plan sixty years earlier, Erieview promised to reorient downtown toward the lakefront. The color contrast both highlights the scope and newness of the plan area and unintentionally accentuates it as a separate, incongruous realm that turns its back on the renewal needs in the rest of downtown. Indeed, some local leaders complained privately that Erieview was sidestepping downtown's real problem – physical decay of older buildings and retail decline along Euclid Avenue – by "going out in left field," as one charged, and building a "surrogate" downtown. | Creator: I. M. Pei & Partners | Date: 1961 | Source: MIT LibrariesDownload Original File
