Our Green Future with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Sat, Sep 30, 2023
2:00 PM

Your guide: Peter Lefkovits, Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Accept this rare invitation to visit SOM’s New York headquarters, where Peter Lefkovits will unveil plans to transform historic Governors Island in New York Harbor into a local and global hub for climate science, sustainable research, and green job training. This New York Climate Exchange partnership with the City of New York, the Trust for Governors Island, Stony Brook University, and others will add new buildings, repurpose historic architecture, and provide 4.5 acres of new outdoor public space. We will also learn about SOM’s recent collaboration with James Corner Field Operations on the Moynihan Connector. A fully accessible pathway for pedestrians, the elevated, timber truss structure above Dyer Avenue and the tree-lined bridge over West 30th Street link Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to the verdant gardens and historic structure of the High Line.

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We are deeply grateful to the following for their sponsorship of the Garden Futures Summit.

UNDERWRITER
Phil and Shelley Belling
Perfect Earth Project

CHAMPION
Elizabeth Locke 

PARTNER
Eleanor Briggs
Howard Formby Garden Design, Inc.
Marilyn Lummis

FRIEND
Anonymous
Mrs. Coleman P. Burke
Camille Butrus
Diane and Jim Connelly
The Enchanted Edible Forest at Cross Island Farms
Elizabeth Giovine
Marsha L. Greenman
Michelle Griffith
Richard Motika and Jerrie Whitfield
Dr. and Mrs. Zebulon Taintor

CULTURAL SPONSORS

            

The Garden Conservancy educational programs are made possible in part by the Coleman and Susan Burke Distinguished Lecture Fund, Courtnay and Terrence Daniels, the Lenhardt Education Fund, and Susan and William McKinley.

Additional support is provided by The Celia Hegyi Matching Challenge Grant, Mrs. Ritchie Battle, the Antonia Breck Fund, Camille Butrus, Michelle and Perry Griffith, Rise S. Johnson, The Krehbiel Family Foundation, Sleepy Cat Farm Foundation, and John S. Troy, FASLA.