Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: Finalists

FIRST PRIZE (TIE)

Please Wake Me Up!
Gauthier le Romancer, Guillaume Derrien
Paris, France

Canopy
Anne-Sophie Coué, Christian Matteau, Chrystelle Sanaa and Stephane Mauget
acc&s2
Nantes, France

SECOND PRIZE

Urban Stripes
Submitted by: Andras Jambor, Vincent Hertenberger
Paris, France

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



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