Laura Starr, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP / B.A. Architecture, 1979

The Bosque, The Battery Park, Partner-in-Charge, 2007. Laura Starr modeled the design of the Bosque after the verdant marshes and towering forests that greeted Dutch explorers 400 years ago. The Bosque features a series of romantic garden rooms, joined by meandering soft-surface paths, densely planted with tall native grasses and perennials, conceived by Dutch garden designer, Piet Oudolf. A granite at-grade fountain services as a sprinkler for children and a paved surface for events, elegantly incorporating air vents, utilities, and drainage, at times only one foot below the surface. Weisz+Yoes Architects crafted custom curved wooden benches and a horizontally slatted wooden snack kiosk. Tillett Lighting designed romantic firefly lights, tucked amidst the plantings. Through this multi-disciplinary collaboration, the Bosque has been transformed from a gritty extension of the urban environment to a luxuriant retreat with 4-acres of waterfront gardens -- a catalyst in the City\u27s efforts to green and steward investment in Lower Manhattan.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1010/thumbnail.jp