Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects shared with us their design for the streetscape masterplan for Hudson Square in Manhattan, New York. Designed to transform the district’s public realm into a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable neighborhood, the project will serve area workers and, eventually, residents. The masterplan creates a pedestrian-focused district accessible from all directions and adjacent neighborhoods—including SoHo, TriBeCa, and Greenwich Village—that coordinates the needs of the Holland Tunnel, a regional transportation facility, with those of the re-imagined neighborhood. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The firm was selected by the Hudson Square Business Improvement District (Hudson Square Connection) from among 23 teams comprising 100 companies to develop the project and to lead a group of design experts to implement it. The first phase of the project is estimated at $27M. Located in downtown Manhattan, Hudson Square is a former printing and publishing district bounded on the east by Sixth Avenue, the south by Canal Street, and the north by West Houston Street. Now an epicenter of the city’s dynamic creative industries, more than 35,000 professionals in communications, new media, and design companies work there.
