Brooklynites building bridges 
 Six designs — submitted by pros and youths — announced as fi nalists for redesign competition 
 BY KEVIN DUGGAN 
 Jurors for a city competition  
 to redesign the Brooklyn Bridge  
 walkway have chosen six fi nalists, 
  the City Council and its  
 partner fi rm for the contest, the  
 Van Alen Institute, announced  
 Thursday. 
 Designs unveiled on July  
 9 include three schemes from  
 architecture fi rms, as well as  
 three from contestants 21 years  
 old and under or younger —  
 all of which aim to revamp the  
 borough’s namesake span to  
 give more space to pedestrians  
 and cyclists, which has become  
 more important in the age of  
 social distancing, according to  
 one of the jurors. 
 “For too long, the Brooklyn  
 Bridge has been more geared toward  
 serving cars than people.  
 This competition is a unique  
 opportunity to rethink that balance  
 at a time when the city is  
 facing an outsized need for public  
 space,” said Regina Myer,  
 president of the local businessboosting  
 group Downtown  
 Brooklyn Partnership. 
 Finalists in the “professional” 
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  category include big  
 names like Dumbo architecture  
 fi rm Bjarke Ingels Group, who,  
 together with Manhattan engineering  
 and design fi rm Arup,  
 proposed a plan called “Back to  
 the Future.” The group’s plan  
 would return the bridge to its  
 roots by losing its car lanes and  
 ramps, and instead reserving  
 all its space on the walkway for  
 pedestrians, with room on the  
 current vehicle lanes below for  
 public  transit,  bike  lanes,  and  
 more foot paths. 
 Bjarke Ingels Group has  
 previously worked on projects  
 in Brooklyn like the sprawling  
 park  they  designed  to  replace  
 the crumbling Brooklyn- 
 Queens Expressway and two  
 soaring  600-foot  towers  at  the  
 Williamsburg waterfront. 
 Similarly, Arup were the engineers  
 for the rebuilt Squibb  
 Bridge. The Manhattan fi rm  
 has also worked with the Council  
 in the past, when they published  
 a study for legislators advocating  
 boring an $11 billion  
 tunnel to replace the BQE. 
 Among the other two professional  
 proposals is a plan called  
 “Brooklyn Bridge Forrest,” by  
 Scott Francisco of Manhattan  
 fi rm Pilot Projects Design Collective, 
  which has an expanded  
 walkway and reclaimed bike  
 lanes below, along with greenspaces  
 dubbed “microforests”  
 at either end of the bridge. 
 Among the “young adult” fi - 
 nalists is a proposal for a glass  
 deck over the roadway’s sparkling  
 light and projection systems  
 called “Do Look Down,” by  
 designers Shannon Hui, Kwans  
 Kim, and Yujin Kim, who are  
 from Hong Kong, California,  
 and New York, respectively. 
 Another one from that category  
 called “The Cultural  
 Current,” by Tennesseans Aubrey  
 Bader and Maggie Redding, 
  calls for a colorful squiggly  
 walking path made out of  
 reused wood and recycled plastic, 
  which winds its way across  
 the bridge, while vehicle traffi c  
 below would be phased out over  
 time, according to the proposal.  
 The fi nalists will present  
 their ideas via Zoom at a virtual  
 “design showdown” on July 23  
 at 6 pm, where the jury and the  
 public will be able to give them  
 feedback and criticism. Winners  
 will  be  announced  later  
 this summer, according to organizers. 
 Council Speaker Corey  
 Johnson, a contender to succeed  
 Bill de Blasio as mayor, and Van  
 Alen  launched  the  competition  
 in February and took submissions  
 up until the beginning of  
 April. 
 The fi nalists were originally  
 supposed to be announced in  
 May, but the schedule was delayed  
 by the outbreak of the  
 novel coronavirus, a spokesman  
 for Johnson’s offi ce previously  
 told Brooklyn Paper. 
 Bjarke Ingels Group and Arup’s proposed deisgn to get rid of cars on the  
 roadway.  Bjarke Ingels Group/Arup 
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