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March 6, 2008
Closing Bell: Competition to Reinvent GAP
The Design Trust for Public Space has recently announced an exciting competition that all Brooklynites should care about: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza. Working with theGrand Army Plaza Coalition, the Design Trust is reaching out to the global community of designers, architects, urban planners and others to generate fresh ideas for the plaza's future. "Currently an underdeveloped public amenity, a redesign of Grand Army Plaza will invigorate surrounding communities, just as the re-conception of Manhattan's High Line set off an explosion of activity in West Chelsea," says the competition brief. First prize is $5,000 and submissions are being accepted until April 25; details can be found here. Oh, and if you check out the list of jurors, you might recognize someone.
Rethinking Grand Army Plaza: Safety and Utility [Brownstoner]
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i'm thinking a shake shack might work...
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 4:13 PM
Rob Witherwax is hot!
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 4:17 PM
Neato logo.
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 4:19 PM
mr. b is lookin SEXY!
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 4:24 PM
A carwash.
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 4:35 PM
Fabulous idea!
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 4:36 PM
That's a rough juror picture 'Stoner. Did you just roll out of bed for that one? lol
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 4:58 PM
Great idea!! Is it my imagination or is there only one resident of nearby neighborhoods on that jury?
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 5:20 PM
Um, no, take that back there are two. Seems like an impressive mix of people. Good luck!!
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 5:26 PM
as far as brooklyn cred goes - salpeter witherwax and perez live locally; stoner puryear and washburn are brooklyn (non PS/PH) residents, streb works in billyburg, and van valkenbergh is the lead guy for brooklyn bridge park - so only 2 of the 10 are 'non brooklyn'. not too shabby!
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 6:19 PM
alex washburn is hot
stoner looks like a pizza delivery man.
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 6:26 PM
Reinvent yourself and don't screw up Brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 6:29 PM
I, for one, am in favor of spending fewer city dollars on a redesign of a great round about and more money on a smarter pedestrians movement!
What a bunch of complainers! Walk the extra block to access the arch and fountain.....geesh
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 6:44 PM
My bold vision for the future of GAP is one in which I do not get killed by the car making a right turn off Flatbush onto Eastern Parkway and running the red light he or she doesn't bother to look for. Every day I hope this vision holds true.
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 7:22 PM
mr. b, can i have your 3rd child. please?
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 7:55 PM
Solid gold statue of The What.
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 8:54 PM
B- spend the money on the bad side of the
park =)
Posted by: guest at March 6, 2008 9:27 PM
I will donate, if they promise to get rid of the purple lighting!
Posted by: guest at March 7, 2008 12:27 AM
The cars gotta go underground. Problem is: the subway already is...
Posted by: BrooklynCouch at March 7, 2008 1:05 AM
'stoner may look like a member of a Cuban resistance group, but that's a pretty hot-shit jury. It would be great to have Meyer or Smith or Van Valkenburgh; to have all three is pretty amazing and that's just the landscape architects. Wasn't Ellen Salpeter in that Italian movie...come on, you know the one.
Posted by: guest at March 7, 2008 8:48 AM
Van Vacklegurgh is one of the top experts on collecting millions of dollars in fees for the design and redesign of mediocre projects that will never be built.
This is right up his alley. His fee for an unbuildable design at GAP could easily be ten million.
He's a total scam artist.
Posted by: guest at March 7, 2008 9:37 AM
my concern with this competition is that half of the people who have commented on their website are from other countries -- can international designers know enough about GAP to create a redesign that's right from bklyn?
we should move the conversation that we're having here over to the comment section on the competition website to increase bklyn representation in their competition:
http://designtrust.org/projects/gap/comment/
Posted by: guest at March 7, 2008 10:13 AM
Design generally comes in at around ten percent of a project's cost. The millions of dollars paid to Van Valkenburgh Associates seem like a lot, but they're around ten percent of what is now looking like a $250 million park. And even if you think he's a thief, the guy can design.
Posted by: guest at March 7, 2008 10:16 AM
If I read this correctly, Van Valkenburgh is chairing the jury - which means he's judging OTHER people's submssions, instead of offering his own design suggestions. Right?
Posted by: guest at March 7, 2008 11:29 AM
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