Webinar will explain the vision behind BIG's Dryline scheme for New York City
New York City’s Dryline – a proposed flood barrier around Lower Manhatten by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), is to be the subject of a webinar on Friday 12 June.
In addition to protecting the city from high water, the Dryline will include greenspace and leisure amenities.
The webinar will be led by BIG's Jeremy Alain Siegel and will involve the Rebuild by Design team, which worked alongside BIG in conceiving the scheme.
Flood barriers for Lower Manhattan have been proposed a number of times over the last couple of decades, but the need was brought into sharp focus by the flooding which accompanied Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when more than US$19bn (€17.9bn, £12.6bn) of damage was done to the city on 29 October.
Rebuild by Design is a federally-funded initiative, which is part of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. It has worked to address the structural and environmental weaknesses that the storm revealed.
The webinar will explain the vision behind the project, which has drawn together a substantial team, including One Architecture, Starr Whitehouse, James Lima Planning + Development, Level Infrastructure, Burohappold, Arcadis, Green Shield Ecology, Aea Consulting, Project Projects and the School Of Constructed Environments At Parsons.
The Dryline was featured on CLADglobal.com recently and has attracted widespread interest. You can read our original report on the development here and sign up for the webinar here.
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