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HR&A Advisors, Inc. with Cooper, Robertson & Partners New York Revitalize and Strengthen the Bay to Beach Corridor Flooding in and around this critical commercial corridor for the Rockaways during Sandy was severe. Like other barrier islands, flooding came from both the ocean and the bay. While much wave action from the ocean was dissipated […]

BIG TEAM New York An intricate mix of water-based and land-based resiliency measures will be needed to protect America’s economic core, to develop new housing along Brooklyn’s coastline, and to further grow the tourism infrastructure in the Upper New York Bay (Lower Manhattan, Governor’s island, Liberty Park). It would be a missed opportunity to not

BIG TEAM New York With good transit connections (further improved by extending the East Side Access) and adjacent to a developing Harlem, the South Bronx Waterfront, now an industrial site in the floodplain, offers great potential for the development of mixed-income and affordable housing. Such a development should serve two purposes: to give the South

BIG TEAM New York, New York Winning Project $335M BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) with One Architecture, Starr Whitehouse, James Lima Planning + Development, Project Projects, Green Shield Ecology, AEA Consulting, Level Agency for Infrastructure, Arcadis, and the Parsons School of Constructed Environments The Big U is a protective system around Manhattan, driven by the needs

SCAPE /Landscape Architecture New Jersey Like Jamaica Bay, Barnegat Bay is a beloved recreational ground with hundreds of thousands of people living directly on its constructed edges. Dredging, filling and pollution have endangered its shallow productive topography and sea level rise threatens to turn what was a rich marine mosaic of land and water into