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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Belt Parkway Bridge <br /> <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />Ul <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Project Location: <br />Completion Date: <br />Project Cost: <br />Project Owner: <br /> <br />Brooklyn, New York <br />2005 <br />$56,000,000 <br />NYC Department of Transportation <br />Division of Bridges <br />2 Rector Street, <br />New York, NY 10006 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Award: ASCE 2005 Design Build Project of the Year Award <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />H2L2 provided architectural design services to the Design-Build team of Gannett-Fleming <br />Engineers / Granite-Halmar Contractors on the replacement of the Belt Parkway Bridge over <br />Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, New York. For this project, the first federally funded Design-Build <br />bridge, an extremely aggressive design and construction schedule was the basis of the team's <br />selection by the City of New York Department of Transportation. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />To meet this accelerated schedule, and in addition to delivering the architectural design of the <br />bridge, H2L2 was responsible for obtaining approvals from the various government agencies <br />concerned in order to keep the project on track. This required constant communication between <br />the design team, the client agency, NYCDOT, and the spectrum of impacted organizations, <br />including the New York State Historic Preservation Office, the City of New York Art Commission, <br />NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the <br />local Community Board. The approval deadline of May 2003 was successfully met. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The architectural design of the bridge was driven by the context of historic Ocean Parkway, the <br />first boulevard of its kind, designed by Olmsted and Vaux at the end of the 19th Century. The <br />Ocean Parkway pedestrian mall system was interrupted in the early 1940's by the intervention of <br />the new Belt Parkway, built by Robert Moses. The new bridge design successfully restores the <br />original width of the boulevard while employing high tech prefabricated components for speed of <br />construction. A battered stone fayade mitigates the intervention of the concrete T-wall units, <br />while enhancing their geometric uniformity. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />H2L2 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />ARCHITECTURE - INTERIOR DESIGN - PLANNING - INFRASTRUCTURE <br />