Thomas Balsley Associates / WEISS/MANFREDI—Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park | photo: Albert Vecerka/Esto

Friday, May 2, 2014
@6:30 p.m.
Office of Thomas Balsley Associates
31 West 27th Street, 9th Floor 
New York

First Friday
Thomas Balsley Associates

Join Thomas Balsley Associates at its office for drinks, informal conversation, and a behind the scenes look at recent and upcoming projects. This program is part of First Friday, a monthly opportunity for League members to visit the offices of leading design practices to see work on the boards and learn more about the offices’ organization and design processes. These informal social gatherings feature happy hour drinks arranged by the host office.

Thomas Balsley Associates (TBA) is a landscape architecture, site planning, and urban design firm based in New York. At every scale, the office’s design approach is rooted in the idea that, “public open spaces are the great democratic spaces, the ultimate common ground.” Founded by Thomas Balsley over 35 years ago, TBA is responsible for the design of several of New York’s significant public parks and plazas including the recent Hunter’s Point South Park, Capitol Plaza, Riverside Park South, Chelsea Waterside Park, Peggy Rockefeller Plaza, and Gantry Plaza State Park. Currently in progress is a new public plaza in Astor Place.

Current international projects include a riverfront development in Shanghai; the Samsung Electronics Training Center in Yongin City, Korea; a mixed-used development in Erbil, Iraq; and mixed-use resort development in Batumi, Georgia.

The firm is the recipient of several awards – for projects such as Gantry Plaza State Park, Riverside Park South, and Hunters Point South–from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, and the Waterfront Center.

A recent interview with Balsley is available on The Dirt.

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