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SCAPE's winning project was a play off of Oyster-tecture called "Living Breakwaters" and was meant to reduce erosion on the shoreline of Brooklyn, New York. Living Breakwaters serves as an environmentally-friendly, natural oyster reef that should be able to "clean up to millions of liters of harbor water each day."
Funded with $111 million in Sandy recovery money, the “Living Breakwaters” constructed about 1,000 feet (300 meters) off the Tottenville beach were conceived to protect residents from future storms. While the concrete and rock barriers can't stop flooding, project designers say they will sap the force of ocean waves, reducing daily erosion ...
Winner: Living breakwaters by Kate Orff Scape. Living Breakwaters, the 2023 Obel Award winning project, is a half mile linear necklace of near-shore breakwaters along the south shore of Staten Island in New York. A mix of stones and carefully designed ecologically enhanced concrete units are placed strategically to calm the water, reduce ...
She was one of the consultants for Waterfront Alliance's Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines program and involved in the ecological design of the SCAPE federally funded project of Living Breakwaters, the winning rebuilding project by design competition. In 2018, she was part of a policy formulation team for Israel's maritime space in the ...
What Makes Coligny Beach’s Water So Blue? The sand on Hilton Head Island is bright white, blissfully soft, and very fine, and the water is shallow, especially at low tide.
A Living shoreline is a relatively new approach for addressing shoreline erosion and protecting marsh areas. Unlike traditional structures such as bulkheads or seawalls that worsen erosion, living shorelines incorporate as many natural elements as possible which create more effective buffers in absorbing wave energy and protecting against ...
Steilacoom resident Tiffanie Majors, 40, said she has been plunging every Sunday for the last four years with her own group at Owen Beach. Majors said she always loved to take cold showers, so the ...
Deedee Buckner is living in a donated camper that gets cold enough to freeze the pipes. It's right outside of her unlivable home. "It's home," said Buckner of her camper. "It's my home.