Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: Finalists
by Urban Omnibus January 6th, 2009 |
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FIRST PRIZE (TIE)
Please Wake Me Up!
Gauthier le Romancer and Guillaume Derrien
Paris, France
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FIRST PRIZE (TIE)
Canopy
Anne-Sophie Coué, Christian Matteau, Chrystelle Sanaa and Stephane Mauget
Nantes, France
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SECOND PRIZE
Urban Stripes
Andras Jambor and Vincent Hertenberger
Paris, France
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THIRD PRIZE
A Center for Brooklyn
James Garrison, Brandt Graves, Simon Kristak, Vanessa Moon, Tim Peterson, Sal Tranchina,
Aaron Tweedie, Darshin Van Parijs, Elliot White and Michael King (Nelson/Nygaard)
Garrison Architects
Brooklyn, New York
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Anchoring Grand Army Plaza
Emilie Graham
New York, NY, USA
The Aqua Plaza: An Idea for a New Urban
Hydro-Scape Typology
Eugene Kwak, Phanat Sonemangkhala
Phanat Xanamane Studio
New York, NY, USA
Back to the Island
Johannes Neumann
Architektur Neumann
Hagen, Germany
Brooklyn Green Continuum: A Resilient Urban Plaza
Flora Chen
Jersey City, NJ, USA
City & Park Meet on Slope’s Venues
Jean-Baptiste Cueille
Paris, France
Community Commons
Jordi Safont-Tria, Lorna Asseo, Ricardo Zurita,
Sandra Pires, Til Globig
Zurita Architects
New York, NY, USA
Conducting Landscapes
Tyler Caine, Antonio Dellomo, Shelby Doyle,
Brandon Specketer
New York, NY, USA
Counter Slope
Na Sun, Xinghua Zhao
Jersey City, NJ, USA
Curano Cor
Andrew Sullivan
San Francisco, CA, USA
Cut + Occupy
Joshua Barkan
New York, NY, USA
GAP Amplification G.A.P.
Animesh Nayak, J. Arthur Liu, Vishwadeep Deo
Brooklyn, NY, USA
gap BOOMERANG
Rebecca Kainer
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Grand Army Plaza: Gateway to Brooklyn
Asaf Yogev, Craig Tooman
Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects, P.C.
New York, NY, USA
Grand Prospect Park
Gilat Lovinger
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Green Army Plaza
Michael Arad
Handel Architects
New York, NY, USA
HIGHwalk
Caterina Roiatti, Robert Traboscia, Angela Amoia, Jason
Atkins, Dennis Mendoza, Chun Fang Huang, Kellen
Giuda, Sebastian Del Castillo
TRA Studio
New York, NY, USA
The Historical Strip and the Activity Slopes
Hugues Leclercq
aotu architecture office ltd.
Shanghai, China
Making Connections in the Big Heart
Diane Klein, Matthew Moore
Hipbone Design LLC
New York, NY, USA
A Parade for Brooklyn: Cultivating Local Flavor for Grand
Army Plaza
Lori Marie Gibbs, Shin-pei Tsay
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Parkbridge on Top of Superoval
Martin Knuijt
OKRA Landschapsarchitecten
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Plaza Street
Daniel Gonzalez Brenes, Mary Lydecker
Somerville, MA, USA
Prospect on Structure
Ashley Kelly
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Raised Edges
Tsutomu Bessho
Forest Hills, NY, USA
SPLAT (Social Platform for Living, Arts, & Theater)
Dan Maxfield, James Biber, James Bowman
Pentagram Architects
New York, NY, USA
Urban Island or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love Flatbush Ave.
Babak Bryan, Jake LaChapelle
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Winning Back G.A.P.
Paul Quilligan
Quilligan Architects
Dublin, Ireland
View video portrait of Grand Army Plaza and audio interviews with competition jurors here
Urban Omnibus would like to thank:
Michael Cairl
Deborah Marton
Ben Perez
Milton Puryear
Ellen Salpeter
Ken Smith
Elizabeth Streb
Alexandros Washburn
Design Trust for Public Space
and all the entrants to the ideas competition






















