NYC Astor Place Park
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Quennell Rothschild & Partners
A large part of successful architecture is determined by the need and function in the community. The infrastructure of the city determines destination, in return gives vitality to its surrounding architecture. By creating purposefully designed landscapes, parks and pedestrian walkways you are engaging the community directly.
Astor Place and Cooper Union is an area in New York that could benefit greatly from these additions. Steps away is the legendary St. Marks Place, an attraction in itself, and the breathtaking new Cooper Union School [see Vlog for video footage] warrants the necessity for this project. The area, like most of New York, is dense and traffic is highly commercialized. This space could act as an oasis to the public and give safe haven from the urban environment.
We applaud W X Y Studio and Quennell Rothschild & Partners for teaming up and taking on this conceptual endeavor. RD+A is proud to support their ambitions and we hope to bring awareness to this, as well as other similar projects.
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