LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS: Ken Smith Landscape Architects At night, the light wells use solid state lighting to illuminate the translucent canopy and register the flows of people on the pier and the tidal flows that move under the surface of the East River.ĪRCHITECT: Kennedy & Violich Architecture The play of light from the water is reflected along undulating walls of perforated aluminum. Large lighting wells (oculi) in the translucent tensile membrane roof provide natural daylight. The modern terminal offers all the services and comforts expected from a world-class cruise facility including 200,000 square. The 34th Street Ferry Terminal creates a public architecture which integrates the physical experiences of the river front with the expanded virtual experiences of the working commute: GPS, cell phone and Internet access. Opened in April 2006, the state-of-the-art Brooklyn Cruise Terminal has received numerous accolades, including Cruise Terminal of the Year by Princess Cruise Lines and Best New Homeport by PortHole Magazine. It is also the place where residents and. The surfaces of the architecture support an innovative distributed network of services, scaled to the passenger and integrated in undulating perforated wall screens, benches and public furniture elements. We envisioned the Jack Layton City Terminal Park as a meeting and transit place where the city meets Lake Ontario. Pier 34 is re-designed and expanded to provide passengers with ticketing and waiting facilities for two ferry berths. The design takes a non-nostalgic attitude toward the NYC Riverfront. These design innovations include integrating architecture and advanced engineering to minimize structural steel, use of an innovative and lightweight triangulated column structure, and a fully tensile, structural lenticular roof canopy system with integrated soft day lighting wells, LED lighting and environmental sensing system. The design turns this ‘reduction’ into an exploration and demonstration of energy efficient, ‘atomized’ services in the massing, cladding and fabrication strategies. Program elements required for the ferry terminal were ‘atomized’ due to tight municipal budget constraints and larger than anticipated marine Pier 34 reconstruction costs. Conversion Haslemere Road (II), London, United Kingdom Housing Group, The Warren, Radlett. The new terminal is the first public project in New York City to be constructed with digitally fabricated shop-built building components that were transported for rapid on-site construction. The East River Ferry Terminal at E 34th St in Manhattan is the primary public ferry boat terminal in a major sustainable transportation initiative along the East River.