Van Valkenburgh, Adjaye to Design Riverfront Park in Detroit

摘要

the detroit riverfront conservancy has selected Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MWA), with David Adjaye, as the winner of a $50 million competition to redesign the 22-acre West Riverfront Park in Detroit. The team's concept has, as its centerpiece, a new beach for swimming and ice-skating, carved out of a cove and protected by a jetty that juts diagonally into the waterway. The site is part of the Conservancy's grand plan for the Detroit River waterfront west of Belle Isle to the Ambassador Bridge, a 5V2-mile stretch of former factories and rail yards, abandoned over time.