REIMAGINING THE WATERFRONT: Design-Ideas Competition

The competition received over 90 submissions representing 25 countries. The competition winners will be exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York from June 6 through September 2012.

 
Prize Winners:
- First – Joseph Wood, New Jersey, USA
- Second – Takuma Ono and Darina Zlateva, New York City, USA
- Third – Matteo Rossetti, Italy

Honorable Mentions:
- Gerard Cadger and Xenia Semeniuk, Canada
- David Elzer, Virginia, USA
- Néstor E. Lebrón González, Puerto Rico
- Jorge Manuel López, José María Echarte, Victoria Marrero, José Luis Llaca, María Ortiz, and María Andés, Spain
- Mohammad Ali Behbahani, Marco Corazza, Francesco Fusillo, Vincenzo Marcella, Roberta Nardi, Italy

Read about the winning designs in the April 18 edition of The Architect’s Newspaper: “Up the River” http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=6000

 

 

CIVITAS reached out to architects, landscape architects, urban planners, students and artists to generate dramatic and original concepts for the east side’s waterfront park, jump-starting a process that aspires to the transformation of the entire East River pedestrian experience.

Through the design-ideas competition, we hope to establish greater equality with other New York City waterfront parks by developing a spatially rich and varied scheme that will enhance the east river waterfront’s narrow confines with recognition of its total urban context.

 

A well-integrated mosaic of new landscape, additional structure and alluring sculpture and lighting will help this prominent waterfront site achieve its potential as a vital and stimulating outdoor location, a favorite refuge for residents of all ages and a destination for tourists and visitors from all over the world.