Peter Minuit Plaza, Battery Park
(at Water & Whitehall Streets)
New York, NY
Near the Staten Island Ferry, the New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion is a dramatic space where more than 5 million people a year, including 70,000 daily commuters and 2 million annual tourists, can find an extraordinary "outdoor living room" for spontaneous and scheduled activities, public markets, seating and shade, and an iconic state-of-the-art pavilion for food and information, all designed by internationally celebrated Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, Amsterdam. The Plein & Pavilion will be unique among the city’ many public spaces — a landscaped intermodal transportation hub of the 21st century, where bicycles, buses, the subway and water transportation intersect with cultural offerings in a singular expression of daring but lyrical design.
http://thebattery.org/rebuilding/plein.php
http://www.thebattery.org/conservancy/press/pressrelease_1_28_09.php
Near the Staten Island Ferry, the New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion is a dramatic space where more than 5 million people a year, including 70,000 daily commuters and 2 million annual tourists, can find an extraordinary "outdoor living room" for spontaneous and scheduled activities, public markets, seating and shade, and an iconic state-of-the-art pavilion for food and information, all designed by internationally celebrated Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, Amsterdam. The Plein & Pavilion will be unique among the city’ many public spaces — a landscaped intermodal transportation hub of the 21st century, where bicycles, buses, the subway and water transportation intersect with cultural offerings in a singular expression of daring but lyrical design.
http://thebattery.org/rebuilding/plein.php
http://www.thebattery.org/conservancy/press/pressrelease_1_28_09.php
See a clip about this unusually designed pavilion:
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