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«Competing Visions for Governors Island

West 8/Rogers Marvel/Diller Scofidio & Renfro/Quennell Rothschild

A rendering of a proposal for the 40-acre park area on Governors Island by the design team of Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Rogers Marvel Architects, West 8, Quennell Rothschild & Partners and SMWM.

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: June 20, 2007

In the four years since the federal government sold Governors Island to the state and city for $1, government officials have been baffled over what to do with this isolated but magically haunting place.

Five proposals for the 40-acre park area at the southern half of the island offer the clearest evidence so far of what the island’s future could hold. The designs, commissioned by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, should be regarded as preliminary sketches. After the winning design is selected next month, it will no doubt face significant revisions. Even so, the five proposals hold clues to what’s right and wrong about how public space is designed (...). » in The New York Times, 20.06.07