Diana Balmori
Principal of Balmori Associates, landscape and urban designer Diana Balmori is recognized internationally for her innovative work in the field of landscape and urban design. She teaches at the Yale School of Architecture and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has recently been appointed a Senior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C. She serves on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. She lives in New York City.
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Diana Balmori shares a flexible and inexpensive design scheme – complete with public engagement a la Twitter – to create street furniture and plantings that reimagine the public space of Gansevoort Plaza. |
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Before Balmori Associates began to develop the the design scheme detailed here, they first opened up the question of what a public space should be. Designers from the studio joined 40 Dutch urban design students and their teachers for a lively conversation that engaged the opinions of people around the neighborhood and the… |
