When: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

Where: At The Center
 

Through its efforts to envision the future of a large swath of Lower Manhattan, the Alliance for Downtown New York has recently engaged a unique approach to planning and urban design. Illuminated by the work of ten design teams, the area known as Greenwich South has been captured in a year long study revealing a global model for the 21st century business district where a confluence of workers, residents and visitors creates a sustainable, dense, connected and economically diverse location of choice.

Grounded by a framework of five principles, the Alliance challenged designers to re-imagine the future of the 41 acres south of the World Trade Center. The exciting result is not a master plan, but a scalable framework, illustrated by a slate of the nation’s most imaginative and daring architects, designers and artists: Architecture Research Office; Beyer Blinder Belle; Coen + Partners; DeWitt Godfrey; Iwamoto Scott Architecture; Jorge Colombo; Morphosis; Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis; Open; Raphael Lozano-Hemmer; Transsolar Climate Engineering; WORKac.

Format:
I. The Alliance will introduce their role, goals for initiating the study and the five principles.
II. A panel of study participants will present their design responses to this idiosyncratic process to re-imagine the central business district in light of the planning principles outlined by the Downtown Alliance.
III. Committee representatives will respond to the work through moderated discussion.

Panel presenters:
Elizabeth H. Berger, President, Alliance for Downtown New York
Stephen Cassell, Principal, Architecture Research Office
Neil Kittredge, AIA, Partner, Beyer Blinder Belle
Paul Lewis, AIA, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis

Committee Member – panel respondents
Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY, Greenwich South Study Committee
Eric Anderson, Anderson Equities, Greenwich South Study Committee
Jordan Gruzen, FAIA, Co-Chair New York New Visions

Moderator:
Ernest Hutton, FAICP, Assoc. AIA, Co-Chair New York New Visions, Co-Chair Planning and Urban Design Committee, Hutton Associates

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