The Gowanus Community deserves a open public discussion on the merits and shortfalls of the current zoning proposal put forth by the city.
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Click on this link or the image below to watch a short video about the history and future of Gowanus. Our presentation is one of many virtual experiences available courtesy of Open House New York Weekend, a celebration of New York City's architecture this Saturday and Sunday.
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The Gowanus Rezoning process will resume. We support it, but we have questions and recommendations.
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Gowanus by Design spent several months meeting with local organizations, technical experts, and residents to discuss the rezoning of the Gowanus neighborhood.
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The Department of City Planning recently released their draft rezoning for the Gowanus Canal area in Brooklyn. In a nutshell, the 2-story neighborhood will become 20-stories. Not wall-to-wall 20-stories, but you can say goodbye to open sky.
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At the January 24 CB6 Land Use Meeting, Gowanus by Design presented its response to the Gowanus Framework.
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Gowanus Atlas is an outgrowth of our third competition, Axis Civitas. Cities, and the sub-cities within them, are human constructed ecosystems that are defined as much by their inflows and outflows as by their political boundaries.
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Gowanus by Design proposes a new Public Park on the triangular slice of land that sits just south of the point at which three branches of the canal meet.
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In past years Gowanus by Design sponsored a series of design competitions to solicit visionary solutions for the neighborhood’s social and physical needs.
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The driving force in the history of the Gowanus has been, and will be, water: the native ponds that lured settlers, the manmade waterway that supported manufacturing and shipping, the damaging storm sewer overflows, and the distressed quality of the current environment.
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Gowanus by Design was founded as a community-based design organization, to explore critical planning challenges for the Gowanus Canal and its adjacent neighborhoods.
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Exhibit will be held on Wednesday, February 24, 6:00-9:00 pm at the Site:Brooklyn Gallery, located at 165 7th Street, Brooklyn.
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Gowanus by Design’s second, annual competition exhibition, Water_Works, opened much like last year's exhibit, to a standing room audience.
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Gowanus by Design is proud to present the winning entries from Water_Works our second annual design and planning competition.
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Gowanus by Design is pleased to announce the winners of our second design competition.
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On Friday February 1st, the competition jury convened at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan to review Gowanus by Design’s latest competition titled “Water_Works.”
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In Mayor Bloomberg’s NYC 2030 Plan, a goal is set of having a park within ten minutes walking distance of every New Yorker. In tough economic times creating new parks, let alone maintaining existing parks, is a serious challenge.
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A few weeks ago, my office visited a NYC Parks Department Five Borough Administrative Building on Randall’s Island to see an ongoing experiment in green roof installations. Admittedly, we did not know what to expect and thought at best we might see a few planters with sedum and flowers.
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The winning submissions from Gowanus by Design’s inaugural competition Gowanus Lowline: Connections along with the four honorable mentions, 20 thought provoking “idea leaders” and four winning student teams from the Brooklyn School for Collaborative studies will be on display at the SET Gallery, 287 Third Avenue, Brooklyn for two weeks in September.
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