GOOD profiles project proposals to revitalize the Greenwich South area of New York City:
The ideas range from the totally do-able to the just plain zany… Morphosis (image above) re-envisioned the entire southern tip of Manhattan (above) as a sustainable “Battery North.” WORKac’s “plug-in” tower, a mixed-use, cantilevered structure, would have rows of brownstones six stories in the air… A few firms specifically wanted to tackle the six-acre hole of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, a gaping scar across Greenwich South. Architecture Research Office wants a public market, park, and recycling center over the tunnel approach. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis and Transolar Climate Engineering (above) want to build a vertical park over the tunnel’s entrance that cleans and filters the air emitted from the cars entering it. And for reasons that aren’t quite clear, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer wants to use the space to project images of a sun onto a 30-meter meteorological balloon (to remind us that global warming is closer than we think?).
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