2025 East Best Projects
Award of Merit, Landscape/Urban Development: Hudson River Park Trust, Gansevoort Peninsula
Hudson River Park Trust, Gansevoort Peninsula
New York
Award of Merit
Submitted by Gilbane Building Co.
Owner/Developer: Hudson River Park Trust
Lead Design Firm: Field Operations
Construction Manager: Gilbane Building Co.
Architect: nARCHITECTS
CM Partner: Invictus Engineering
Waterfront, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering and CEQR Environmental Assessment Topographic Survey: Langan
Formerly a New York City Dept. of Sanitation operations facility, the 5.5-acre park provides sports fields, playground, kayak launching zone and Manhattan’s first public beach.
Extending more than 400 ft into the Hudson River, the south shoreline was built with precast granite, reclaimed boulders from the previous sanitation site and precast tidal pools to promote marine growth in a new bio-habitat.
The north shoreline was constructed with a protective riprap shoreline and seawall to protect a newly installed salt marsh with under-drainage and weir structures. Raising the site up to 7 ft above the 100-year flood line to prevent future settlement required coordination with the Coast Guard and marine operations to transport and offload sand and fill from barges using conveyors.
A remote surveying system was installed to automatically monitor settlement of the surcharge material over four months, eliminating the cost of performing daily manual surveys.
