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Open House New York’s Annual Summer Boat Tour Cruises Up and Down the East River

See New Architecture and Urban Design Projects Along the Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan Waterfront

Saturday, August 2, 2014

July 22, 2014–Open House New York (OHNY) will take an afternoon cruise up the East River on Saturday, August 2, 2014 to view many architecture and urban design projects that line the waterfront in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan with guest speakers Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture + Urban Design and Angelica Trevino Baccon of SHoP Architects. The tour will view the multitude of parks, residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects that are new, under construction, and still on the drawing boards. “The East River waterfront is burgeoning,” says Gregory Wessner, executive director of Open House New York. “Embarking at Pier 15, we’ll experience the evolution of the waterfront from a place that was once off limits to the public, and now is inviting as Brooklyn Bridge Park, futuristic as the new Domino Sugar Refinery site, practical as the new East River Ferry Terminal, serene as Hunter’s Point South Park, and exciting as the proposed East River Blueway Plan.”

 

                                     

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Guest speaker Angelica Trevino Baccon, senior design associate, SHoP Architects will talk about how her prolific firm is redesigning the East River Esplanade in Manhattan with the completed Pier 15; construction in the works to extend parkland under the FDR; Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport; and two residential towers connected by a sky bridge in the East 30’s. She will also talk about her firm’s work in Brooklyn, including SHoP’s master plan for the Domino Sugar Refinery site to transform it into market-rate and affordable housing, space for creative offices, neighborhood retail, and community spaces. Claire Weisz, principal, WXY Architecture + Urban Design will discuss the East River Blueway Plan, which envisions a new waterfront from East 34th Street down to the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan, and her firm’s completed work on WNYC Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that includes an esplanade and a pedestrian bridge built across a historic ferry slip and restored as a wetland accessible to visitors. East River Boat Tour Saturday, August 2, 2014 12:30 – 2:30pm Rain or Shine Departs from Pier 15, East River Esplanade $30 OHNY Members $40 General Admission $75 Special Offer: one ticket + membership for one To purchase tickets, visit http://2014eastriverboattour.eventbrite.com About Open House New York Through its year-round programs and the Annual OHNY Weekend, Open House New York provides broad audiences with unparalleled access to the buildings, infrastructure, and public spaces of New York City. OHNY celebrates the best examples of design and planning throughout the five boroughs, from historic to contemporary, and helps catalyze a conversation about the city's future to sustain New York as a vibrant place to live, work, and learn. Follow us online via Facebook or Twitter.   Support Public support for OHNY’s programs is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council; and the Office of the Manhattan Borough President.

 

                                     

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Images - Clockwise: Rendering of 626 First Avenue, courtesy SHoP Architects; Rendering of the Domino Sugar Refinery Mixed-Use project, courtesy SHoP Architects; WXY Architecture and Urban Design’s Transmitter Park, photo © Paul Warchol; OHNY 2013 boat ride, Nicolas Lemery Nantel www.salokin.com.