Huong Dinh Awarded ILASLA’s Student Merit Award

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.

The Carroll Gardens blog Pardon Me For Asking shares notes from the first community visioning session to redesign historic Carroll Park. Led by Starr Whitehouse for NYC Parks, the ongoing community visioning process will collect residents’ ideas, suggestions, and knowledge of the park for integration into a new conceptual design.

In honor the CitiesAlive 2018 conference, of which Laura Starr will be the keynote speaker, Greenroofs.com is featuring the courtyard at VIA 57—Starr Whitehouse’s recent collaboration with BIG Architects on a new courtscraper on the Hudson.

Southwest Park, Starr Whitehouse’s resilient park in Hoboken, NJ, protected the city from flooding during its most intense rainfall in two years. Thanks to the park’s array of stormwater management infrastructure, including absorptive rain gardens, permeable pavers, and subsurface detention basins, the floodwaters in Hoboken receded immediately after the storm. Hoboken City officials reported that Southwest Park’s rainwater storage basins, which can retain up to 200,000 gallons of water, were filled to capacity and were successfully drained into the Hudson River. In their words: “Without the…rainwater storage at Southwest Park, Hoboken could have experienced significantly worse flooding conditions, which could have lasted much longer.” Read the press release here.

In an interview with Madame Architect’s Julia Gamolina, Laura talks about her work and what she loves most about it, advising young architects to talk to everyone they can and to go for what they want.

In their exhibition “Ride A Bike! Reclaim the City,” the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany showcases outstanding examples of urban space that expertly integrate urban planning, landscape architecture, and transportation planning. Featuring projects in cities around the world that incorporate bicycle lanes into the urban fabric, the exhibit advocates a gentle “reconquest” of the city. Three of Starr Whitehouse’s projects– the Battery Bikeway, the BIG U, and the Randall’s Island Hell Gate Pathway and Connector– were featured as exemplary illustrations of landscape architecture and planning in New York City. Read an overview of the exhibition here.

Stephen Whitehouse discusses the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of employing landscape design interns in June 2018’s issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine.