Pierscape at Navy Pier Phase II Design Team Organization + ...
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Tom Leader Studio Fresh Kills Key collabor<strong>at</strong>ors:<br />
St<strong>at</strong>en Island, NY<br />
Anu M<strong>at</strong>hur<br />
Dilip da Cunha<br />
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In March 2001, after 50 years as the primary disposal site for New York City<br />
garbage, Fresh Kills was closed, and a competition was held to develop a master<br />
plan to convert the landfill to a park. Six months l<strong>at</strong>er, the site gained new and<br />
horrific meaning as it became a repository for debris from the World Trade Center.<br />
In the shadow of these realities, Tom Leader Studio felt th<strong>at</strong> producing a park<br />
master plan was prem<strong>at</strong>ure. Knowingly sacrificing the chance to win a commission,<br />
the team instead conducted an investig<strong>at</strong>ion into the n<strong>at</strong>ure of the place and its<br />
context. The final product was a resource of document<strong>at</strong>ion and specul<strong>at</strong>ion on key<br />
site dynamics—as they existed through history and how they might be engaged<br />
and deployed in the future. This resource could then become the them<strong>at</strong>ic and<br />
imagin<strong>at</strong>ive springboard for many projects to follow and live a longer productive life.
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