Child’s Play at the Battery

The Broadsheet covers the groundbreaking of the The Battery PlayScape.

6sqft covers the groundbreaking and posts some of Starr Whitehouse and BKSK‘s renderings of the upcoming Battery PlayScape.

Starr Whitehouse is excited to have the ASLA-NY honor four of our projects with awards this year: an honor award for Southwest Park, and merit awards for The Battery PlayScape, East 92nd Street Bonus Plaza, and A Vision for a Resilient East Harlem. A warm thank you to the awards committee, and to all our wonderful clients, collaborators, and staff who worked tirelessly to make these projects happen! Read the ASLA’s press release here.

Italian landscape architecture publication paysage.it features StuyTown Fitness Park in the 38th issue of their print magazine, Topscape.

Urban Land Magazine reports on the process and findings of the ULI Open Space Advisory Panel chaired by Stephen Whitehouse the week of October 14th in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Stephen Whitehouse is quoted by Bisnow as he prepares to head the Urban Land Institute’s advisory panel in Fort Lauderdale. Leading the group of land use and planning experts from AECOM, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, CORE Architecture, and others, Stephen and the panel are tasked with developing a new vision for Huizenga Plaza, a small downtown park on Fort Lauderdale’s New River.

Congratulations to Starr Whitehouse intern Huong Dinh on being awarded the ASLA Illinois Chapter’s Student Merit Award for her project, Kickapoo Rail Trail – Convergence. IL-ASLA announced the award today at their annual Celebration+ event.

Starr Whitehouse’s Michael Haggerty and DREAM Charter School’s Emily Parkey describe the development of the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, and how it is enlisting neighborhood youth in helping lead the “intergenerational proposition” of resiliency. Developed as part of Starr Whitehouse’s East Harlem Resiliency Study and now in its second year, the Lab provides a replicable model for resilience education, producing a full-semester curriculum and emergency preparedness guide grounded in the conditions and assets of East Harlem.

In light of the recent NYC Mandatory Green Roof Legislation, greenroofs.com is featuring Hunters Point South, a 925-unit, 100% affordable housing development designed by SHoP and Starr Whitehouse for Related Companies. Check out greenroofs.com’s video of the development’s four rooftop terraces, whose goal is to bring healthy living, urban agriculture and luxury amenities to hundreds of affordable housing residents in Queens.

The Urban Land Institute features The Battery on their top-ten list of urban open spaces.