Section view of a wave-taming, biodiversity-fostering breakwater structure developed as part of the Living Breakwaters project for Lower New York Bay. (Courtesy SCAPE) The Living Breakwaters ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The much-anticipated construction completion celebration of the Living Breakwaters project may have been dampened by rain on Sept. 28, but not the spirits of the determined ...
New York-based landscape architecture firm SCAPE won the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s 2014 Fuller Challenge, billed as socially responsible design’s highest award. The development project, Living ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island’s “Living Breakwaters” project received international acclaim this month as the winner of the 2023 Obel award, which recognizes outstanding architectural ...
The Living Breakwaters project was designed specifically for Staten Island and Rarutan Bay and is based on the idea of flood mitigation through the implementation of a well-strategized blend of ...
On the southern tip of Staten Island, New York City’s latest project to address climate change is now slowly rising from the sea. This September, the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery began work on ...
Living Breakwaters from Rebuild by Design on Vimeo. The proposed necklace of breakwaters includes a “reef street,” and micro-pockets that would be used as habitats for finfish, shellfish and lobsters.
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Ten years after Sandy, experts worry future coastal flooding could be worse and although plans are being considered for storm surge barriers around New York and New Jersey, some ...
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