Michael Van Valkenburgh, Principal of
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, who have done project work at Battery Park, Hudson River Park, Union Square Park, and The Highline, has been working on designing the landscape at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, the 85 acre site that spans between Dumbo, Brooklyn Heights, and Cobble Hill on the Brooklyn waterfront. Pier 1 work began last month and is scheduled to be completed by next summer. In the above video, Mr. Van Valkenburgh provides a tour and his perspective of the future park from Pier 1. (Via WNYC posting about the park)
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This guy is such a fraud. Housing inside parks. We need recreation not bull like this guy dishes. Go back to Boston, will ya. And give us a real park.
This guy is such a fraud. Housing inside parks. We need recreation not bull like this guy dishes. Go back to Boston, will ya. And give us a real park.
This guy is such a fraud. Housing inside parks. We need recreation not bull like this guy dishes. Go back to Boston, will ya. And give us a real park.
This guy is such a fraud. Housing inside parks. We need recreation not bull like this guy dishes. Go back to Boston, will ya. And give us a real park.