Last Chance: Salvage Swings has one week left in residence on Roosevelt Island. Winner of FIGMENT NYC 2019’s City of Dreams competition, the artwork remains until Friday, August 23rd.
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
Salvage Swings was designed by Somewhere Studio.
“It was an opportunity to address construction-waste management,” said Jessica Colangelo, a principal at Somewhere studio, in a DESIGNWIRE article. “Our form integrates play—and community.”
They got the idea after seeing scrapped pallets piled up near a University of Arkansas construction site.
FIGMENT NYC made Roosevelt Island home for the first time in 2019.
Exhibits filled Lighthouse Park where the East River separates into two channels. And the weather was perfect.
“The pavilion is constructed of 12 swing modules that frame the swinger and the swinger’s view,” FIGMENT’S organizers said when they announced the winner.
Last Chance: Salvage Swings is Friday, August 23rd
Salvage Swings gets one more week to delight kids and parents in Lighthouse Park, but hope replaces disappointment. FIGMENT NYC is already accepting design ideas for 2020
Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island will host again.
If you’re interested in designing for 2020, full details are here. Working with FIGMENT are Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects NY Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY).
Stack Work Advances While Answers Do Not
On June 17 and 18, HPD told the first meeting of the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant Demolition Community Advisory Group that smokestack demolition had no projected start date. Residents and the CAG would receive at least five business days’ advance notice once a date was set. Scaffolding around the stacks could not proceed until soil removal and backfill were complete and the area stabilized.
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