aug 16, 2011

The New York Harbor Osprey Initiative

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aug 4, 2011

SCAPE featured in KERB

Kerb 19 / RMIT University
Paradigms of Nature: Post Natural Futures

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aug 3, 2011

Austin Nichols Warehouse named 2011 Building Brooklyn Awards winner

ADAPTIVE REUSE Winner

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aug 2, 2011

Check out BPCCC in construction

Landscape portion of Battery Park City Community Center is under construction now !

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Oyster-tecture featured in Brooklyn Daily Eagle

mar 27, 2010

ARCHITECT DESIGNS UNDERWATER 'CITY OF OYSTERS FOR GOWANUS
By MIKE WEISS
Published: March 26, 2010

...while the digital screens and elaborate models of the other four teams filling the museum’s exhibition hall seemed very ambitious, there was something more down to earth and “do-able” about Orff’s design – reflecting a focus on the main character in her plan, the humble but underappreciated oyster.

“The oyster is an amazing creature,” Orff said.

...On a less-ambitious scale, Orff’s Oyster-Tecture project is something she thinks could actually be built and could start improving water quality and life in Brooklyn immediately.

“My goal is absolutely not conceptual, there’s nothing here that’s off the moon,” she said emphatically. “We could start tomorrow.”


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