Help design new play experiences for Governors Island at the OHNY Weekend Family Festival

Though the crowd on the swings at Picnic Point  often suggests otherwise, we know that play on Governors Island is NOT just for grown ups! As part of Governors Island Park and Public Space project, West 8 is designing new play experiences for kids and we want to make sure they are as fun as can be.  So [...]

We Want Your Food

The Trust for Governors Island (“the Trust”) is pleased to announce that it will be soliciting proposals for temporary food on Governors Island for the 2012 public season.  Each day during the public season, thousands of New Yorkers board ferries to the Island and stay for several hours, enjoying all kinds of recreational and cultural [...]

Governors Island Park and Public Space Phase 1 Rendered in . . .Cake

People have said a lot of nice things about West 8′s plan for Governors Island’s parks and public spaces, but “MMMMM, chocolatey!” was never one of them. Until now. For thier summer staff shindig, a friend of West 8 made a special Governors-Island-Park-and-Public-Space-Phase-1-shaped cake. Since we know those of you who think Governors Island totally looks [...]

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When in Rome . . .

News from West 8, designers of the new parks and public space here on Governors Island: On May 20, the West 8 installation ‘Il Paradiso Nascosto’ (The Stolen Paradise) for the MAXXI Museum’s exhibition series Nature was opened to the public. The exhibition features an installation of transparent biopolymer tree silhouettes, whose light diffusion, subtle [...]

Gearing up for Summer on Governors Island

Bike and Roll’s ace mechanics putting together one of 35 quadracycles for summer fun . . . Signs that summer is almost here on Governors Island: lawnmowers are whirring furiously, the geese have flown to Canada, art is popping up all over, and  Bike and Roll is hard at work at thier Colonels Row site building bikes. The adorable Electra [...]

Happy Bike to Work Day!

You may think Governors Island is all hammocks and kittens, but it’s a full-time job for all the people who are transforming the Island. And one of the most frequently asked questions for anyone who works on the Island is, “How do you get to work?” The answer, of course, is that we get there the same [...]

Castaway Kitten

Yez, I own this town now. Add one determined housecat to the growing menagrie of visiting fauna on Governors Island.  Over the past several years, the Island has hosted a few turtles,  a day-tripping Dutch cow, a wayward Jersey deer, and we’re about to get some chickens. We think this kitty was swept out to the [...]

Attention Spring Migrants!

Looking for a place to stay on your journey north? Tired of flying? Need a good night’s sleep without worrying about  those pesky housecats ? Well look no further and consider Governors Island this year. It’s fast becoming THE premiere stop on the Atlantic Flyway! Though the landscape of this 172-acre harbor paradise is entirely man-made, Governors [...]

On the Boards: Schematic Design

If you’re curious about what West 8 and the rest of the design team has been up to since we released the Park and Public Space Master Plan, we just posted some progress boards from a recent presentation up on the “Get Involved” section of our govisland.com site. That page also has links to recent presentations we’ve made to Community [...]

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