South Street Seaport
New York City
- Landscape Architects
- Antón Landschaft
- Year
- 2008
2008. International Ideas Competition ENYA (Emerging New York Architects), 3rd Prize
South Street Seaport is the only area in Manhattan with a low profile and a historic maritime architecture. To preserve its qualities and reinforce its identity, without converting the area in a museum district, 3 guidelines are proposed for future developments. To keep the atmosphere and roughness of the place, reusing existing buildings, reinterpreting former uses, the open space plays a main role in the strategy. Where the city meets the river(s) things happen(ed).
Maximize perimeter of water-land contact.
Reinforce the horizontality of the skyline using the spaces under FDR.
Carola Antón in Zusammenrabeit mit Gabriel Walti.
Bauherrschaft: Seamen’s Church Institute, AIA New York State.
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