2018 – February 3

AIA Fort Lauderdale

Susannah Drake speaks at Florida Atlantic University

Susannah Drake will be giving a lecture Tuesday, February 6th at Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture as part of the AIA Fort Lauderdale Fall/Spring Lecture Series. The lecture, entitled “Mountain to Shore: Rethinking Our Relationship to the Urban Landscape,” will look at the firm’s recent work including projects at the University of Hawaii and the University of Colorado Boulder.

2018 – January 31

Architect’s Newspaper

Architect’s Newspaper takes a look at the RPA’s 4th Regional Plan

Projected rising sea levels could impact 23 million people in the tri-state area. Architect’s Newspaper examines the context of the 4th Regional Plan and DLANDstudio + Rafi Segal’s plan for how the region can address the growing threat to the coastline.

2018 – January 4

DLANDstudio

DLANDstudio has moved!

We are happy to announce we have moved into downtown Brooklyn's historic Temple Bar Building. The new studio, located on the 5th floor, overlooks Brooklyn Borough Hall and Columbus Park. DLANDstudio spent 12 years in its prior space on Clinton Street.

2017– November 30

Regional Plan Association

With the release of the Fourth Regional Plan, the RPA advocates for decking over stretches of the BQE

Recognising that many of the tri-state area’s highways currently divide and blight adjacent communities, the RPA advises that depressed roadways could be decked over and rebuilt with new open space that reconnects communities to the street grid.
        DLAND’s proposal for BQ Green is cited as an example that can “stitch neighborhoods back together at the same time that opportunities are created for open space, green infrastructure and adjacent neighborhood development”.
        BQ Green is a proposed park over the BQE trench in Williamsburg. It would increase the area's green space by 30 percent, helping to reduce noise, clean the air, and promote improved health for current and future generations.
 

2017– November 1

The Municipal Art Society of New York

Susannah Drake’s talk at the 2017 MASNYC Summit is now available online

The theme for the 8th annual MAS Summit, Pushing the Limits, explored the ways in which New Yorkers can push the limits of conventional thinking to envisage new strategies that will maximise our increasingly strained resources and infrastructure in the context of urban population growth and climate change.
        Susannah’s talk, ‘On The Waterfront’, presents her vision for Bight: Coastal Urbanism—a future shoreline where land and water create new spaces for habitation, conservation, work, and play.

2017– September 29

The Guardian

DLANDstudio & Rafi Segal's work for the RPA highlighted by the Guardian

With climate change both a reality and threat, the Guardian reports on the ways in which many architects and urbanists are pushing creative initiatives for cities that treat stormwater as a resource, rather than a hazard.
        DLANDstudio & Rafi Segal’s proposal for the Bight is highlighted as a project that addresses New York’s projected 6 feet of sea-level rise.

2017– August 22

Fast Company

FastCompany reports on our narrative of Receive/Protect/Adapt for the tri-state coast

“By 2067, most of Jamaica Bay, the neighborhood near JFK airport, will be a sunken, underwater park, with the airport protected by a higher seawall; a new development called Bight City, built on three piers, will be filled with ‘Zuckerhuts,’ President Zuckerberg’s program of universal basic housing...
        Storytelling was key to helping us shape our design proposals for the Bight. It helped the team to imagine in concrete terms what the coasts of New York and New Jersey might look like in the coming decades.

2017– May 18

The QueensWay

Schematic Design proposals for Phase 1 of The QueensWay released

The Trust for Public Land and Friends of the QueensWay today finished the schematic design for the first half-mile of the proposed 3.5-mile linear park and trail, and released the new plans and images which depict and locate key public amenities.
        Phase I, “The Metropolitan Hub” will greatly improve access to Forest Park, running from Metropolitan Avenue south to Union Turnpike, where an existing path provides pedestrian and bike access to the park.

2017– March 8

Architect Magazine

Principal Susannah Drake shares her thoughts on 'A Day Without a Woman'

ARCHITECT asked several women in architecture how they are participating in "A Day Without a Woman," and why it is important to them and the overall profession.
        “I will wear red in solidarity with my sisters as my grandmother wore white in marching in Washington for a woman's right to vote a century ago. My small WBE will allow people who want to protest to take to the streets as desired”, Susannah said.

2017– February 22

Planetizen

A call for a new approach to green infrastructure planning — Op-Ed by Susannah Drake and Armando Carbonell

The challenge facing the nation's infrastructure is massive in scale, requiring ambition lacking since the New Deal and Eisenhower eras. Building on those historic models, this op-ed suggests a "WPA 2.0" approach to infrastructure.
        This framework is infused with new thinking about the environment and resilience, to make future infrastructure longer-lasting and with greater economic payoff.