Come Hell or High Water

The team led by BIG proposed a landscaped berm around Manhattan to protect against flooding.

Courtesy BIG

In April, when the 10 finalists in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s

BIG’s plan protects Manhattan with A LANDSCAPED BERM. See

A team headed by OLIN and PennDesign called for "INTEGRATED STORM PROTECTION AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE). See

A key component of SCAPE’s proposal was LIVING BREAKWATERS. See

Interboro’s proposal called for green-blue corridors See

OMA’s team proposed strategy for hoboken resiliency. See more of their proposal here.

Courtesy OMA

In New Jersey, Hoboken will receive $230 million for OMA’s plan to flood-proof the city with a mix of hard and soft infrastructure. There is also $150 million set for the “New Meadowlands”—a public park designed by MIT’s Center for Advanced Urbanism.

Secretary Donovan said that the winning projects were chosen not just for their feasibility, but because they could best serve as models of resiliency for other vulnerable parts other country.

The Full List of Participants:

Team BIG: One Architecture, Starr Whitehouse, James Lima Planning + Development, Project Projects, Green Shield Ecology, AEA Consulting, Level Agency for Infrastructure, Arcadis, and the Parsons School of Constructed Environments.

Team Interboro: Apex, Bosch Slabbers, Center for Urban Pedagogy, David Rusk, Deltars, H+N+S Landscape Architects, IMG Rebel, NJIT Infrastructure Planning Program, Palmbout Urban Landscapes, Project Projects, and TU Delft.

Team OMA: Royal HaskoningDHV; Balmori Associates; and HR&A Advisors.

Team MIT CAU: ZUS + URBANISTEN with Deltares; 75B; and Volker Infra Design.

Team PennDesign/OLIN: R&A Advisors, eDesign Dynamics, Level Infrastructure, Barretto Bay Strategies, McLaren Engineering Group, Philip Habib & Associates, Buro Happold.

Team SCAPE: Parsons Brinckerhoff, Dr. Philip Orton / Stevens Institute of Technology, Ocean & Coastal Consultants, SeArc Ecological Consulting, LOT-EK, MTWTF, The Harbor School and Paul Greenberg.