Brooklyn Bridge Park
Designers Transform a Defunct Shipping Complex and Reconnect a City With Its Waterfront.
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From Architectural Record
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how the BBP design team transformed a defunct shipping complex into a waterfront park.
- Identify environmentally sensitive development strategies deployed at BBP.
- Explain stormwater management techniques deployed at BPP.
- Discuss the BBP design team's criteria for selecting plant material.
Credits:
1 AIA LU/HSW
Read the article and then take the test to earn Continuing Education credit: Michael Van Valkenburgh remakes an industrial stretch of New York's East River shoreline into richly varied parkland.
Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in January 2011
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