Walking Tour: Battery Park City: Creating a New Neighborhood
Sunday, Apr 5, 20151 PMEDT
| Meet at the portal of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park. (between Battery Park and the Museum of Jewish Heritage) New York, NY
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Two Walking Tours in Memory of Jordan Gruzen (April 5, 1934 – January 27, 2015) For Battery Park City: Creating A New Neighborhood, tour attendees will visit Battery Park City, Jordan Gruzen’s home neighborhood featuring several of his designs, on his birthday. After more than four decades of planning and construction, Battery Park City has been built out. Learn about its planning and discover its distinctive residential neighborhoods, distinguished parks and plazas, public art works, and signature commercial center. Highlights include Brookfield Place and Wintergarden (Cesar Pelli), Goldman Sachs Headquarters (Pei Cobb Freed), Museum of Jewish Heritage (Kevin Roche), Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park (Olin with Machado & Silvetti), Teardrop Park (Michael Van Valkenburgh), South Cove Plaza and the Irish Hunger Memorial (1100 Architect). We will see schools by Cooper Robertson and Dattner Architects and residential towers by a host of architects, including Pelli Clarke Pelli, Gruzen Samton, Ennead Architects, Ulrich Franzen, Robert A. M. Stern and Charles Moore. Tour will begin promptly at 10:30 am. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior. Tickets must be purchased in advance through the AIANY ticketing website here: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=8149 AIA CES 2.5 LU | 2.5 HSW AIANY and the AIANY Architecture Tour Committee and its tour guides will not be held liable and assume no responsibility for any injury or loss incurred by participants in these programs.
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