Tide’s up on Downtown’s Water Street

The Starr Whitehouse design “plan calls for improving sight lines from Water Street over to the East River waterfront, reconfiguring ground floor spaces on the street to allow more uses including retail, plus adding more lighting and concerts and other entertainment in public plazas. The plan also suggests putting a median in the street and widening sidewalks to allow an “amenity strip” for café seating, benches, bike racks, and more trees and flowers.”

The New York Times describes the redesign of Water Street, a barren concrete street. With the help of Starr Whitehouse, the Alliance for Downtown New York is hoping that redesigning public plazas will draw more workers outdoors.

“The plan was created solely from community input, using focus groups and surveys to determine what exactly they wanted out of a waterside idyll. Only then did landscape architects Starr Whitehouse and nArchitects, go to work.”

“Fourteen architecture firms competed for the park commission, which seeks to unify a section of the Jersey City waterfront just north of Liberty State Park in the Paulus Hook section of the city. Chosen from that batch: the team of nARCHITECTS…and Starr Whitehouse, which has its hands in all sorts of NYC parks projects.”

“The Jersey City Waterfront Parks Conservancy released a conceptual master plan for public review earlier this month.  Landscape architecture firm Starr Whitehouse and nArchitects created a master plan designed for the “protection of waterfront parkland and dramatic Manhattan views via passive lawns, kid’s play elements, interaction with water and nature, combined with natural erosion protection and promotion of aquatic life.”

“Downtown Alliance, has tapped Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects FxFowle Architects “establishing a new paradigm for commercial, retail and visitor engagement.”

Residential Architect overviews the efforts of Starr Whitehouse and Rogers Marvel Architects to clean up Gowanus Canal.

The city has announced that a team led by the Hudson Companies has been chosen to build its “Gowanus Green” development on Public Place between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal. The design comes from Rogers Marvel Architects and landscape designers West 8 and Starr Whitehouse.

Introduces detailed renderings of Gowanus Green, the work of Roger Marvel Architects and landscape designers West 8 and Starr Whitehouse.