Our Lowline/High Line mash-up, using photos by and Jason Kuffer and Mattron
With a long Superfund process ahead, the Gowanus Canal isn't going to be sparkling with anything but STDs anytime soon. A new design competition can keep hope alive though! And that's exactly what's happening. According to the Brooklyn Paper, the contest will accept entries from architects who want to spruce the place up, even before the decade is over. A local architect told the paper, “The goal is that the entries become food for thought and it allows the community to start to look at the way it wants to have the area developed.”
More contests are already planned for the Lowline competition—a play on Manhattan's High Line Park—which would find ways for people to enjoy the waterway. Possibilities are limitless, and the contest's sponsor (the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation) expects to see everything from pedestrian footbridges, to birdhouses, to new signage.
The deadline is April Fools Day, which sort of seems fitting.
