Lower Manhattan could be the first to test out an innovative system that is being proposed as a way to protect cities from rising sea levels and future storms. Called “Humanhattan 2050,” a visionary idea from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) that’s on view in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, the project not only proposes new infrastructure to safeguard the waterfront for the next hundred years, it will also make these spaces more accessible and enjoyable. — Observer
Avid Archinect readers will remember the "Humanhattan 2050" scheme from its initial iteration, BIG's 2014 Rebuild by Design competition-winning proposal "The BIG U" in response to the most devastating storm ever to hit New York, Hurricane Sandy, and the need for resilient, disaster-prepared city planning.
"The 'Humanhattan 2050' exhibit for the Venice Architecture Biennale is a vision that expands upon BIG’s winning idea by enlarging the boundaries of Lower Manhattan with a building development created on an extension of land it cleverly calls MOMA, which is short for MOre MAnhattan," writes Paul Laster for the Observer.
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I wonder which student intern came up with this plan .... it would be more on brand if Bjorne walked around with a jacket and no shirt trying to do an Italian accent...
like clockwork, nothing as reliable as bjarke ingels haters. real substantive critique here.
my substantive critique is that all BIG credit is given to Bjarke (but we know there's a lot of people there). As for this Humanhattan 2050, it seems like Federal Funding is about to expire and nothing has happened there yet. So... what happened? What is happening? All of their PR brilliance and they couldn't make it happen. If BIG were revolutionary, they would change the paradigm for architecture practice, media and getting things done, but they are just out for themselves (or himself).
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