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Old Posted Aug 10, 2012, 2:35 AM
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Here's a link to the study...
https://www.ida-downtown.org/eweb/do...ceNY%20PPt.pdf



http://www.downtownny.com/node/3375

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The Alliance for Downtown New York’s Greenwich South Study has received an American Architecture Award for 2010 from the Chicago Athenaeum and European Center for Architecture and Design. The honor is one of the most prestigious and distinguished building awards in the United States to honor new and cutting-edge design.

The Greenwich South study suggests ways to turn the 23 blocks between Battery Park and the World Trade Center near Greenwich Street into the lynchpin for a thriving, round-the-clock “Lower West Side,” and presents a vision for revitalizing and reconnecting the community with nearby creative hubs.

Since its release in September 2009, the Greenwich South Study also has won recognition from:

 The American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter. The Minnesota ASLA honored Coen + Partners for its landscape architecture work on the study. The New York and Minneapolis-based firm submitted its concept of “A Living Street: A Landscape Illustrating Five Principles for Greenwich South.” The goal of the Greenwich South vision, Coen + Partners said, is to “shape future neighborhood development around the concept of a ‘Living Street.’ The resulting landscape concept successfully knits the World Trade Center site to Battery Park, creating a sustainable and animated neighborhood armature, both visually distinct and timeless, to guide long-term renewal.”

 The American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter. The New York AIA has awarded the study with a 2010 New York Chapter Urban Design Merit Award. The awards jury “picked projects that highlighted that good architecture is more than luxury – it’s what works best for the end user, be it a government agency, a nonprofit organization, or a private business,” said the symposium’s moderator, Architect’s Newspaper editor-in-chief William Menking.

 The American Institute of Architects, National Chapter. The national AIA has given the project a 2010 National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design. “The potential of the extraordinary large parcel, essentially forgotten for decades, could result in a reconnection that opens up millions of square feet of developable air rights,” the awards jury said.

 The Rockefeller Foundation. Based on the Greenwich South study, the Foundation has granted the Downtown Alliance a $150,000 award from its New York City Cultural Innovation Fund for development of a creative arts-district prototype that supports permanent workspaces for artists and commercial growth.
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