炮台周边、自行车道、椭圆形和林地

炮台周边、自行车道、椭圆形和林地
The Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval, and Woodland

昆内尔、罗斯柴尔德及；合作伙伴：炮台位于历史悠久的曼哈顿南端，它的名字来源于17世纪荷兰定居者建造的大炮炮台。几个世纪以来，该公园已成为第一个官方移民接待站，作为游乐场和纪念景观。仅仅在二十年前，这里还是一个破旧的、正式的摩西时代公园，现在已经成为每年700万游客和纽约人的旅游胜地。他们每年都会来这里乘坐渡轮，参观纪念馆和城市农场，漫步博斯克花园和海滨长廊，欣赏纽约港的壮丽景色。这项雄心勃勃的重建的最新阶段是炮台周边、自行车道、椭圆形和林地——耗资1400万美元，占地12英亩，重新设计，包括一个广阔的新聚集空间、田园自行车道、纪念碑步行道和流线型流通。与纽约公园和电池保护协会密切合作，昆内尔·罗斯柴尔德；合作伙伴领导了纽约最引人注目的开放空间的设计工作，与长期合作的电池合作伙伴斯塔尔·怀特豪斯景观设计师和规划师联手，他们在过去二十年中设计了电池博斯克和其他阶段。
Quennell, Rothschild & Partners: Sited on the historic southern tip of Manhattan, the Battery takes its name from the “battery” of cannons erected by Dutch settlers in the 1600s. Over the centuries, the park has hosted the first official immigrant receiving station, functioned as a pleasure ground and as a memorial landscape. What was a worn, formal Moses-era park a mere twenty years ago is now a lush destination for seven million tourists and New Yorkers who come here each year to board a ferry, visit the memorials and urban farm, stroll the Bosque Gardens and waterfront promenade, and take in the magnificent views of New York Harbor. The latest phase in this ambitious reconstruction is the Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval, and Woodland—a $14M, twelve-acre redesign which includes an expansive new gathering space, a pastoral bikeway, a monument walk, and streamlined circulation. Working closely with NYC Parks and the Battery Conservancy, Quennell Rothschild & Partners led design efforts on this most recent addition to New York’s most visible open space, joining forces with long-time Battery collaborators Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, who designed the Battery Bosque and other phases over the past twenty years.

The Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval, and Woodland

Public demonstrations opposing Executive Order banning travel from selected Muslim-majority countries

The Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval, and Woodland

1892 Currier and Ives The Port of New York Birdseye view from the Battery looking South Detail

The Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval, and Woodland

Historic image

The Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval, and Woodland

BEFORE

The Battery Oval

© Battery Conservancy, Josie Connell
Two acres of Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue, shaded by 38 stately trees, carpet the sweeping Battery Oval, a gathering space for up to 9,000 concert-goers. Those arriving at the Broadway entrance are treated to dramatic views of Castle Clinton.

Battery Bikeway

The curvilinear bikeway, flanked by colorful perennials and shrubs, provides the critical link between the Hudson River Park and East River bikeways, as well as safe access through the park. A combination of visual and physical cues alerts bike riders to pedestrian crossings.

Monument Walk

公园里有23座纪念美国探险家、捍卫者和发明家的纪念碑。以前随意散布在公园周围的这些雕塑中，有十件已经修复并移到公园周边。在沿着新纪念碑步行道的最后一个家中，新的突出的纪念碑在通往公园的所有主要街道上提供了焦点。

© Starr Whitehouse
The park hosts 23 monuments to American explorers, defenders, and inventors. Previously scattered haphazardly around the park, ten of these sculptures have been restored and moved to the park’s perimeter. In their final home along the new monument walk, the newly prominent monuments provide focal points at all the major streets leading to the park.

Planting

© Quennell Rothschild Partners
The longevity of the park’s 250 mature trees has been assured through new paving that preserves their root systems. Unnecessary paths have been removed, making way for more lawn and woodland where the old trees can happily spread above and below ground.

Circulation

© Quennell Rothschild Partners
Former conflicts between pedestrians, bikes, trucks and buses have been resolved. View-framing plantings enhance the main entrances, while new entrances connect the Battery with Pier A to the west and Peter Minuit Plaza to the east.

To reinforce its role as the city’s first line of defense against hurricanes, the park has also become more pervious. By replacing mown lawn with swaths of native grasses and reducing paving, Quennell Rothschild and Partners have prevented any additional stormwater from being generated.

The Battery has finally been restored to a beautiful, sustainable twenty-first century public space worthy of its cultural, archaeological, and historic significance.

Data

面积：12英亩
Project: The Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval, and Woodland
Landscape Architects: Quennell, Rothschild & Partners and Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners
Awards: ASLA-New York Chapter Honor Award.
Location: Lower Manhattan, New York
Completion Date: 2016
Area: 12 acres