Battery Park City New York, New York
Client: Battery Park City Authority Size: 18,000,000 gsf Completion: 1982
Built on an empty land-fill area created from the excavation of the World Trade Center site in the 1970s, Battery Park City is today the premier waterfront destination in New York and perhaps the most successful new commercial development in the United States. The Master Plan proposed two then-radical concepts: first, extension of the adjacent street grid and geometry across the property to create a normalized development pattern while discouraging through traffic; second, an open space system consisting of a continuous esplanade, a commercial plaza, and several neighborhood-scaled parks with walkways connecting them to one another and the city.