ACFNY RECOMMENDS | EXHIBITION CLOSE THE GAP | ENVISIONING THE EAST RIVER GREENWAY TUESDAY JAN 17 - TUESDAY FEB 28 |
Opening Reception: January 17, 6-8pm
An Exhibition of Winning Submissions and Special Mentions
Close the Gap, an international design competition sponsored by Transportation Alternatives and d3 in 2011, invited architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, and students worldwide to broaden the dialogue of alternative solutions for sustainable urban living. The competition focused on the Midtown sector of New York City’s East River Greenway--a critical missing link in Manhattan’s alternative transportation infrastructure.
The competition jury convened in New York and awarded three top prizes, as well as six special mentions. One of the three first prize winners was the Austrian group pla.net architects.
Vienna-based pla.net architects work in architecture, interior- and product design, with projects ranging from doorhandles to industrial buildings. Founding partners Gerhard Abel, Paul Linsbauer, and Martina Pueringer cite curiosity as well as the drive to question the existing, to discover different perspectives and thus to find unexpected solutions, as the basis of their concepts.
For more information, please visit www.architects-pla.net
Close the Gap offered a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative urban concepts. Entrants were asked to critically examine the relationship of pedestrians and cyclists to public space, opportunities to merge the city with nature, as well as re-engagement of the individual with social environments in a Midtown Manhattan context. The competition invited a full spectrum of proposals that would creatively intermingle current and emerging forms of transport.
For more information, please visit www.d3space.org/closethegap
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CUNY Baruch College
Newman Library Lobby
151 East 25th Street
New York, NY
