"It's bringing more park into the experience of being in Central Park," says Elizabeth W. Smith, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy, the private nonprofit organization that has managed the green space since 1980.
The Davis Center's design-led by the Central Park Conservancy's chief landscape architect, Christopher Nolan, in collaboration with Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture & Design and Mitchell Giurgola architecture firm-will feature bird-safe floor-to-ceiling windows, walls made from Adirondack Stone.
"Really, the building gets consumed in the landscape," says Susan Rodriguez. "It's an attitude that really sees architecture, design, and landscape as framing experience versus being about an object."
A boardwalk will traverse marsh plantings along the edge of the water, and a living roof will be planted with trees, grasses, and shrubs.
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