Pasadena Civic Center Master Plan

Pasadena, California

Client: City of Pasadena

The Civic Center Master Plan provides a vision and program for revitalizing the heart of Pasadena. This work included guidelines for open space, architecture, landscape, transit, traffic, and parking improvements. The Plan restored the north-south axis of the 1925 Bennett Plan by facilitating the transformation of a monolithic shopping mall into three separate blocks of street-facing, mixed-use buildings. These spatial linkages are enhanced by clearly defined squares in front of the Main Library, City Hall, and Civic Auditorium. Six development sites accommodate major mixed-use buildings, including housing and up to 1.3 million square feet of commercial uses and 25,000 square feet of new institutional uses. Streetscapes were upgraded with new paving, trees, lighting, and public furnishings to create continuity and further enliven the district.