Westside Infill Residential Development
HMWhite’s design for a new public urban landscape, in a “park-starved” Manhattan West Side district, is the lynch pin in establishing the “address” and identity for this residential building. By capping a large portion of the adjacent Lincoln Tunnel juggernaut, a more hospitable setting is created as part of an integrated redefined streetscape design and landscape refuge, HMWhite’s designs are critical to City Planning’s ULURP project review and approval process. A platform landscape buffers sound and visual connection from the fast moving vehicular traffic below. Pedestrian street life is humanized with a network of landscape and urban garden structures that introduce a spatial framework, revealing a legible civic architectural language to offset the urban fabric void created by the vehicular maze. This landscape framework establishes a high-quality neighborhood multi-purpose and richly planted district gathering space, offering refuge and a contracting source of nature. Safer, more comfortable and visually appealing neighborhood block linkages result from each human scaled landscape element and interventions that humanize this vastly neglected public realm.