The project for Queens Plaza creates a coherent public realm, supporting bicycles and pedestrians, across a complex and fragmented 1.3 mile-long urban site. The project--featured in the city's High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines (2005) and High Performance Landscape Guidelines (2011) -- transforms the tangle of elevated infrastructure from a harsh and disorienting maze into a vibrant and navigable public landscape, changing perception of what an urban park can be. Phase 1, which opened to the public in April of 2012, includes new medians to smooth traffic flows, interweaving public art, stormwater management and extensive planting, social seating, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and new lighting and sidewalks.