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Public Art
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Rivers Alive!
New Life for Old Waterfronts, 2007
Started
in 2006, the drawing of a proposed environmental art
installation consisting of a 500 foot long pier with suspension
bridge imagery and a soaring 100 foot sculpture is shown on the
Manhattan waterfront. Designed as a major
recreational/educational facility to draw residents and tourists
alike to the waters of New York Harbor, it features an aquarium
of local fish, video camera views of the harbor, interactive
computer access to a myriad of waterfront information as well as
summertime wading.
For more information about
the Rivers Alive project go to
www.riversalivenyc.org.
The proposal has been submitted to a number
of New York City planners who are involved in waterfront
projects as well as the Waterfront Committee of Community
Board#1. The proposal was
developed in collaboration with Anthony Walmsley, FASLA,
Landscape Architect.
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Sky River, 2005
A
digital rendering of a 190 foot suspension bridge that connects
to a fishing platform in the Hudson River in Westchester County
is shown. Designed as a low key recreational/educational
facility in 2005 to draw residents and tourists to the waters of
the Hudson, it features a transparent deck, interactive video
displays and summertime wading. A non-profit corporation, Sky
River Walk Inc., has been formed to develop and implement the
project. The proposal, written with Amie Worley a curator in the
Westchester Park system, is available in a printed document.
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The Woodland
Memorial -
The Path of Remembrance,
2004

The model in the photograph shows
the main elements in the 2004 proposal for the Westchester 911
Memorial:
1) Converging
walkways with seating along a low granite wall engraved with the
names of Westchester victims.
2) A woodland
path leading to World Trade Center sculptural fragments.
3) A circular
labyrinth leading into a central meditation area enclosed by
cyprus trees.
The proposal
developed in collaboration with P.Willen, Architect, A.Walmsley,
FASLA, Landscape Architect, and H.Dimos, Landscape Architect,
was second in the Westchester 911 Memorial competition. |
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