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Great Falls National Park in New York

National Parks Now Design Competition

 

Date: 2014

Location: Paterson, NJ

Project Team: Julia Watson

Client: Van Alen Institute

Great Falls National Park is a contemporary national treasure that sits atop many complex layers of historic transformation and change.

As literally the kinetic heart of Paterson’s industrial development, the Great Falls and surrounding park can now re-emerge as the cultural heart of a dense urban community. Situated in the midst of socio-economically and ethnically diverse neighborhoods the newly designated park provides a rare opportunity to re-imagine how parks can enrich urban landscapes and provide a vibrant and integrated social atmosphere.

The studio acknowledges that we are sited on the traditional lands of the first people of Brooklyn, New York—the Lenape people past and present—and honor them and the land with gratitude.

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