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The Architects Newspaper: New York City’s City Planning Commission met last Monday to vote on the future of the $1.45 billion resiliency plan to bolster flood protection in Lower Manhattan, a mammoth scheme designed and planned by One Architecture & Urbanism, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, AKRF, and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The approved East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project […]

Curbed NY: The city is about to embark on a two-year process that will create a roadmap to expand nearly a mile of the lower Manhattan coastline into the East River with flood protections. Officials with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) have approved a team of 18 consultants lead by Arcadis, a Netherlands-based design

The Patch: Hizzoner took an afternoon stroll through East River Park Friday, after bailing on a meeting with local council members over a major resiliency plan to bury and rebuild the park to protect from the impacts of climate change. Patch spotted Mayor Bill de Blasio speaking to a local in East River Park about the $1.45

Curbed NY: In the seven years since Hurricane Sandy, the conversation about how cities must address climate change has changed. It’s no longer a question if the built environment will have to adapt, but how. Last week, Shaun Donovan, HUD secretary in the Obama Administration, and landscape architect Kate Orff, spoke with journalist Nicholas Lehmann about their experience working on Rebuild by

The Guardian: Jainey Bavishi is all business as she takes off from Battery Park to walk the perimeter of lower Manhattan. It’s a muggy afternoon, a breeze barely lifting off of the New York Harbor, after days of heavy rain. She maneuvers throngs of tourists, construction workers and suits streaming out of office towers for lunch as she