Posted on February 23, 2010 by Ellen
Everything’s coming up tulips for West 8, the Dutch landscape architecture firm leading the team to design the new park and public spaces on Governors Island. Last month’s Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) had a terrific feature detailing the completion of their award-winnning wavedecks on the Toronto waterfront. And now they’ve sent us word that they’ve been shortlisted for another waterfront park [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2010 by Ellen
Last week, the New York City released its new Active Design Guidelines. The guidelines provide architects and planners with strategies to create designs that promote physical activity for better health. The guidelines are the first in the City to focus on the role of design in combating obesity, which is one of the most urgent health crises facing the city [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by Christopher
You can see the changes that have been happening to Governors Island in the following pictures. The first photo is directly following the demolition of eight unusable and abandoned buildings at Picnic Point. Within a relatively short period of time these eight acres (which were previously off limits to visitors) have been turned into a [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2009 by Betty
West 8, the leaders of the team designing the new park and public spaces on Governors Island, has been selected to design an important new civic park in Miami Beach. An announcement this weekend in The Miami Herald trumpeted that West 8 is known for “…delivering euporically original urban designs on a budget…” (read more here ). Lincoln Park [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2009 by Ellen
A few weeks back we blogged about the new hills West 8 is designing on the southern end of the Island. Those hills are part of a larger strategy that will use subtle shifts in topography to transform what are now acres of crabgrass and asphalt into an alluring, intriguing park that people will want to explore. This “transformative topography” [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2009 by Ellen
I recently heard Leslie (Koch, GIPEC President) describe bikes as Governors Island’s current “killer app.” That’s a perfect way to describe the phenomenon we witnessed last year when about 35% of our visitors rode bikes on Transportation Alternative’s Free Bike Fridays (the overall percent of visitors on bikes was a not-so-shabby 20% ). Not only does the Island’s [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2009 by jamiemaslyn
One of the most dramatic features of the West 8 team’s design competition proposal was a set of new hills on the non-historic South Island constructed from recycled demolition debris and fill. The hills would radically change the landscape of the pancake-flat South Island and provide 360-degree views of the harbor and surrounding skylines. During the park master plan process, the West [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2009 by Betty
As buildings have been demolished on the southern tip of Governors Island, raw open space has been created in the footprints of the old structures. We’ve been working with the West 8 design team to imagine ways of giving this space character and turning a flat barren area into a great destination. This transformation will happen in a number [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2009 by Ellen
We thought folks might be interested to see what West 8 and the design team has ”on the boards,” so we’re introducing a series of weekly posts that will describe in words and pictures some of the themes of the evolving Park Master Plan. Each week, someone from the West 8 team or GIPEC will introduce an element [...]
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Posted on December 30, 2008 by Ellen
There was a lot to love about 2008 on Governors Island. Bike and Roll opened a bike rental kiosk and Transportation Alternatives sponsored Free Bike Fridays; we had more great art, entertainment, science and recreational programs; we read a lot of nice things about Governors Island in the papers; we released Requests for Proposals for a [...]
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