Teardrop Park

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