Since [...] the federal government turned control [of Governors Island] over to New York City, under the condition that it not be used for residential housing, it has been an island in search of a purpose [...]
Now, the city has a new idea: transforming one of its last big chunks of developable land [...] into a “living laboratory” for coping with the effects of climate change.
— The New York Times
The early stages of a plan to convert New York's Governor's Island into a self-funded sustainability laboratory have come to light.
The proposal bears some similarities to the Billion Oyster project, a decade-old proposal developed by an eponymous nonprofit and landscape architects SCAPE hat sought to transform the waters off Governor's Island with a 100-acre oyster reef that would filter and revitalize area waterways using living oysters.
West 8, Diller, Scofidio +Renfro, Rogers Marvel Architects, and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects recently completed an 87-acre master plan of the island.
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