SHoP and Ken Smith convert Manhattan's Pier 35 into an eco park

US firms SHoP Architects and Ken Smith Workshop have turned a sliver of land along the East River into an ecological park featuring gardens, a faceted metal screen and a rocky beach that serves as habitat for mussels.
Just south of the Lower East Side neighbourhood in Manhattan, Pier 35 sits along the East River and faces towards Brooklyn. The new park anchors the northern tip of the East River Waterfront Esplanade, a two-mile-long (three kilometres) stretch of land that is owned by the cit