2024-11-21T13:31:36-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150130497/put-a-park-on-it-big-s-brooklyn-queens-expressway-proposal Alexander Walter 2019-04-05T14:14:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0d/0d0a20728851634072e1a9d5acda91ca.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The crowded field of competitors who&rsquo;ve proposed solutions for the ailing Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has gotten another entrant: Bjarke Ingels Group, which has unveiled a proposal that it calls &ldquo;BQP.&rdquo; The &ldquo;P&rdquo; stands for park, and in BIG&rsquo;s plan, green space takes center stage. [...] the vehicles that use the BQE would be moved to a roadway that would be covered and topped with as much as 10 acres of new parkland.</p></em><br /><br /><p>"Though a cost and time estimate for BIG&rsquo;s plan has not yet been made public, the firm claims it will be less expensive, and less time-consuming, than what the DOT has proposed," reports <em>Curbed NY </em>(click <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2019/3/12/18248873/brooklyn-heights-bqe-repair-dot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for their detailed explainer of what the massive Brooklyn-Queens Expressway&nbsp;reconstruction plan is all about).</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a3/a3fea03e7afefc4a060cb00ab708fc07.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a3/a3fea03e7afefc4a060cb00ab708fc07.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: Bjarke Ingels Group.</figcaption></figure><p>Learn more about BIG's BQE "BQP" proposal <a href="https://big.dk/#projects-bqp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>