Queens Plaza

WRT reconceived the approach to Queens from Manhattan, imagining the site as an urban green machine with two new urban parks. Integrating water, wind, solar, and other environmental systems within the layered structures of bridges, roadways, elevated trains, and subways, the project will humanize the infrastructure at Queens Plaza. New structures will be designed to latch on to, cut through, build under, grow over, and link vertically, in order to make use of interstitial spaces and underused sites. Slivers of green, patchwork gardens, and strips of water retention, all dappled through restructured patterns of movement, will grow on-site, providing layers of vegetation to clean air and stormwater as well as mitigate noise pollution.

     

Details
Category: Plazas + Streetscapes
Location: Long Island City, NY

People
Margie Ruddick, ASLA, LEED® AP