part of Battery Park City
layout - microclimatic assymetry (lawn on sunny side/play on shady side)
Michael Van Valkenburgh and associates were inspired by Olmstead: "For a park to be great, it has to have range."
aerial view of shady half
sand lot
slide/sand pit
alternate route to top of slide
portal through wall
27-foot bluestone wall
aerial view of sunny side
shadbush hill loooking towards witchhazel dell
marsh
secret marshy path
helleborus, halesia, shadbush, chokeberry, redbud, beech, birch, witch hazel, viburnum, fern
path down from...
and up to...
reading circle
view from lawn to wall and hilltop reading circle