Futuristic Enclosure Thingy Proposed for the BQE
It never hurts to dream. Manhattan-based architecture firm Studio for Civil Architecture just released its proposal for a visual and sound barrier between the BQE and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Regardless of what is ultimately built on the waterfront housing, restaurants, ball fields, passive recreation areas visitors to the open space and surrounding structures will be…
Rendering via Studio for Civil Architecture
It never hurts to dream. Manhattan-based architecture firm Studio for Civil Architecture just released its proposal for a visual and sound barrier between the BQE and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Regardless of what is ultimately built on the waterfront housing, restaurants, ball fields, passive recreation areas visitors to the open space and surrounding structures will be subject to relentless, unpleasant, potentially deafening noise at 85 decibels, the equivalent of standing next to an operating lawnmower,” says architect Donald Rattner, who designed the lightweight structure to encase the triple-cantilever of the roadway with Hage Engineering. Evidently this stretch of the BQE is scheduled to be repaired in 2018 and the designers want to throw their idea into the ring now. You can see more renderings and listen to the 85 decibels of traffic noise here. Dig it?
I think you people are getting too drunk in Europe – (or aren’t in the big cities of Europe) cause the traffic decibels in most of the European cities I have visited (London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Milan, Florence) is as loud or louder than most places in NYC – Especially in Italy (those scooters are so frikin loud its deafening)
Nice thingy.
You’re welcome to your dirt and grit and noise, Rob. The rest of us will continue to dream of better air quality, better views, less noise pollution, and a general public attention to the pleasantness of our hometown.
One needn’t wish for suburbia to envision a better New York.
Imagine the “scratchitti”!!!
Man, do we need a new Robert Moses back in this town. He’d know what to do with these plans.
Best skateboard slope ever!!
Is that how those people got down there? With suction cup feet?
The bubble actually covers the BQE and Furman Street.
I would really like it if there was a waterslide built in that one could use to get from the promenade to the piers.
Now that’s futuristic!
It looks good on paper, but let me throw a couple things out there 1) What will this do to the view from the Promenade? maybe nothing, but it does project pretty far. 2) to they think they will be able to keep French Spidermen and drunken tourists from climbing out onto that from the Promenade? So suddenly they’ll have to line the Promenade with razor wire?
It looks like the Stimulus money is trickling down to the design services sector. I guess you have to keep us busy doing something.
I can think of a million things 50 million dollars could be used for before this.