Redshift — “Tall, Green, and Global: 10 of the Most Innovative Architecture Projects of 2016”

December 21, 2016

Northerly Island is honored as one of Redshift’s 10 most innovative architecture projects of 2016.

“Technically completed in late 2015, this former airport-turned-wetland-peninsula took a while to grow into itself. But by summer 2016, Northerly Island had matured into an urban wildlife habitat like no other: a reparative landscape on Lake Michigan framing a great city’s skyline amid rolling hills, marshlands, prairie, and the call of ducks and herons. It’s a stunning example of adaptive reuse, using a landscape-architecture toolset to repair disused infrastructure.”

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