The Battery Bosque Kiosks

The lighting of the slatted wood kiosks in the Battery Bosque was a key component of the overall strategy to create an enchanted nighttime experience of the Bosque. Nestled among a grove of 140 mature London plane trees, the Bosque features 34,000 perennial plants and 70,000 bulbs, 1,500 linear feet of serpentine benches, a 60-foot wide spiral fountain and two distinctively designed food kiosks. The slatted wood kiosks are lit like lanterns in the landscape, a strategy that helps to reduce the number of luminaires needed while providing a shielded, soft focal glow.

CLIENT
NYC Parks and Recreation
The Battery Conservancy

TEAM
Piet Oudolf, garden designer
Starr Whitehouse and Saratoga Associates, landscape architects
Weisz + Yoes, architects

RECOGNITION
2009 AIA New York State: Award of Excellence
2008 IDA: Platinum International Design Award
2006 NY Chapter ASLA: Honor Award for Landscape Architectural Design
2006 Waterfront Center Top Honor Award: “Excellence on the Waterfront”

Photography: Courtesy of Amy Barkow and WXY