Hey, you! Yes, you in the desk cursing at AutoCAD! What are you up to tonight?

This isn’t a come-on. We’re just spreading the word about another opportunity to join MoMA and the AIA New York chapter for an evening with Barry Bergdoll and the architects of Rising Currents.

Rising Currents – on exhibition in MoMA’s Architecture & Design galleries until October 11 — brings together five architecture firms (Architecture Research Office, LTL Architects, nARCHITECTS, SCAPE, and Matthew Baird Architects) to design innovative solutions re-envisioning the coastlines of New York and New Jersey, intended to dramatically change our relationship to one of the city’s great open spaces.

Tonight’s your change to hear from Bergdoll, who curated the show, and the five architecture teams who are re-imagining New York’s relationship to its coastline. We went on a similar tour last June and had a ball. Want proof? Pictures after the break.

The boat leaves from South Street Seaport at 6:15 pm sharp. It will return to the dock around 9 pm. Tickets are $35, and a discounted $25 for AIA and MoMA members. BOOK IT NOW.

Zone 0: ARO and dlandstudio (Lower Manhattan and the northern edge of the Upper Bay)
Zone 1: LTL Architects (Northwest Palisade Bay/Hudson River area in NJ area including: Liberty Park / Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty and waters)
Zone 2: Matthew Baird Architects (Southwest Palisade Bay/Kill van Kull area including Bayonne NJ, Bayonne Piers and northern Staten Island and waters)
Zone 3: nARCHITECTS (South Palisade Bay/Verrazano Narrows area including eastern Staten Island and Bay Ridge and Sunset Park and waters)
Zone 4: SCAPE (Northeast Palisade Bay/Buttermilk Channel and Gowanus Canal area including Governors Island, Red Hook and waters)

The Brooklyn Bridge

Industrial area of Red Hook in Brooklyn, part of Zone 4 designed by SCAPE.

On our way over to Liberty Island, we ran into the Queen Mary 2. LTL Architects led the charge for the proposed conservation of Zone 1.

Old industrial space on the north shore of Staten Island.

Dredging in the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island and New Jersey, under the jurisdiction of Matthew Baird Architects.

Verrazano Bridge, which is located in Zone 3, imagined by nARCHITECTS.

Verrazano Bridge

Governor’s Island, Manhattan’s Battery Park City in the background, which falls in Zone 0 as planned by by ARO and dlandstudio. All photos by Kelsey Keith for Architizer.

Bonus link: Conde Nast’s travel blog has a play-by-play of a Rising Currents boat tour with Center for Architecture in June.

by Kelsey Keith

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tagged Archi-tour, Architecture, architecture research office, barry bergdoll, field trip, LTL Architects, matthew baird architects, moma, narchitects, P.S.1, rising currents, scape studio

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