NYC - Olympic Village
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Click on any photo below to see a larger version. All photos were taken by New Yorkled.
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Following are the five finalists...click on any one below to view individual pages featuring information plus photos. Main Olympic Village Design Page
The following text NEW PARK. New York City’s Olympic Village Tomorrow’s
New York will be shaped by a new attitude towards its natural and
constructed landscapes. Our design for a sustainable Olympic Village
will be the first large-scale project in this fundamental shift
and is based on six simple ideas. The third idea is the placement of five slender river towers where athletes and residents will live with extraordinary panoramic views. The fourth idea is the creation of new blocks expanding the Hunters Point street pattern over the new park and into the Olympic Village, extending the visual corridors from neighborhood to waterfront. Within each block there is a sheltered courtyard for special Olympic events and year-round use by the block’s residents. The fifth idea is the formation of a new transit hub below the new park where the Long Island Railroad meets the river taxi terminal. The sixth idea is for buildings and landscapes to be linked together as a regenerative system exceeding all existing standards for sustainability and energy utilization, and setting a standard for housing well into the next century. New York City’s Olympic Village will show the way to a new city whose waterfronts are integral to the everyday life of its citizens.
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