Can a Gas Tank Be a Playground? Dueling Ideas for Bushwick Inlet Park

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An inventive scheme to integrate Bushwick Inlet's oil-and-gas tanks into a new park faces local opposition. JDavidsonNYC reports

A rendering of the Tanks. Rendering: STUDIO V Architecture and Ken Smith Workshop Oil made the industrial world rich, and also sick. It built great cities and despoiled nature. And long after fossil fuels have finally been supplanted, their scars will remain, in lone smokestacks, shoreline ruins, and great industrial deserts. Even as cities clean up virulent sludge from disused plants, they must also cope with the relics of obsolete corporations.

Looking at the graffiti-covered shells, the largest as tall as a six-story building, huddled on one weedy acre by the East River, it’s hard to see at first what their defenders are so passionate about. Sometimes, though, it takes another look to see the beauty in an eyesore. Zabarsky and her team envision lopping off the tanks’ roofs, opening windows, and installing ramps, stairs, structures, interactive displays, and plantings.

The tanks today. Photo: Steven Greaves/Getty Images Reusing and adapting industrial architecture generally means converting relatively innocuous warehouses and factory buildings, whose miseries may have been mild and lie relatively deep in the past. The process has left us with a repertoire of rough-chic clichés popular with restaurants and software companies: weathered brick, concrete floors, exposed pipes and rivets.

 

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JDavidsonNYC They have been known to blow up, especially during thunderstorms! Children shouldn't play around industrial sites. kids SafetyFirst

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