Student Project | Art Landscape | Karan Maniar | Pratt Institute

How would you connect the Hudson River Park and the Highline? Karan Maniar has created a design using the art and architecture of landscape to join the two distinct landscapes. Utilising the mapping of a flag flying in the wind to create the form and interesting landscape. Watch the short 3 minute video to get a better insight into Karan Maniar project as part of M.S. Architecture this summer at Pratt Institute. Art as Landscape; Landscape as Art; Landscape as Architecture;

Art Landscape from Karan Maniar on Vimeo.

Pratt Institute, Summer 2012, M.S. Architecture
Studio: Philip Parker
Multimedia & Computer Methods: Christopher Kroner
Computer Media: Adv. Modeling: Robert Cervellione, Benjamin Martinson, Hart Marlow

Draw Up A Chair | Design Competition | The Battery Conservatory


The Battery Conservancy invites students and professionals from the Americas (Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean), to design an iconic moveable outdoor seating element. The winning design will be fabricated for use at The Battery, the 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan which annually welcomes six million visitors.

Why a Moveable Chair?
As the great urban theorist William Holly Whyte discovered: “Chairs enlarge choice: to move into the sun, out of it, to make room for groups, move away from them. If you know you can move if you want to, you feel more comfortable staying put.” The Battery’s movable chairs will delight while they invite, animating the park and making it Downtown’s central meeting place.

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Town of Kansas Enhancements | Kansas City USA | KEM STUDIO

The existing Town of Kansas pedestrian bridge in Kansas City, Missouri received some enhancements to the positive experience it currently enjoys. Kansas City as we know it today originated as the “Town of Kansas” when Lewis and Clark first stopped here while traversing the Missouri River and is the beginning of the cities Main Street.
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Designing Action Nashville ideas competition

Designing Action is an IDEAS competition to re-imagine an industrial site along Downtown Nashville’s Cumberland River, with an emphasis on creating active spaces for healthy citizens, and highlighting alternative sports and related activities. The 75 acre site has many variables to entice creative solutions. It is a brownfield disconnected from the neighborhoods of East Nashville by an elevated interstate. Almost the entire site was under water in the 2010 May flood. The site is within walking distance of several major sports, entertainment, and convention venues.

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West Point Foundry Preserve breaks ground

West Point Foundry Preserve breaks ground

Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects has broken ground on a $3.6M project to preserve and interpret the historic ruins of the West Point Foundry Preserve in the Village of Cold Spring, New York, transforming the venerable site into a park that respects and reveals its industrial and ecological history. Scenic Hudson, the largest environmental group focused on protecting and restoring the Hudson Valley, owns the preserve and commissioned Mathews Nielsen for the project, which is supported in part by a Preserve America grant.
West Point Foundry Preserve breaks ground
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