Award of Merit: Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Development
Forty years after Louis I. Kahn designed it, this 4.5-acre park at last joined the landscape of Roosevelt Island in New York. The park contains a garden flanked by two allées of Little Leaf Linden trees leading up to the park's central feature—the "Room," an open-air granite structure located at the southern tip of the Island. The Room is made up of 190 individual stones, 70 of which measure 6 ft by 6 ft by 12 ft and weigh 36 tons each. These massive stones needed to be shipped one by one to New Jersey, where they were loaded onto a barge and transported to Roosevelt Island.