Gowanus By Design's Water_ Works Competition Exhibit To Open May 22nd At Old American Can Factory

This month, Gowanus By Design, a community-based urban design advocacy that is proposing new strategies for the development of the Gowanus Canal, is hosting an exhibit to feature the winning entries from Water_Works , their second annual design and planning competition. The opening will be held at the Old American Can Factory.

According to Gowanus By Design, "There were over 250 entries submitted from around the world and the jury was tasked to select nine winners in the areas of architectural design, community programming, and urban ecology. The award-winners along with other selected entries will be exhibited at the gallery.

The intent of the competition was to provide a new community resource that will occupy the site of the Douglas Degraw pool with a Combined Sewer Overflow [CSO] retention facility."  

It's bound to be very interesting, so don't miss it.

Water_ Works

An Open Design and Planning Competition

Exhibit Opening on May 22 from 6:30pm to 9 pm

Gowanus Institute at the Old American Can Factory

232 Third Street, corner Third Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 718.855.0871

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Battle For Brooklyn: Free Screening At Issue Project Room In Gowanus

If you have not yet seen "Battle for Brooklyn" by husband-and-wife-team Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, here is your chance. 

Gowanus Institute, Rooftop Films and Issue Project Room present:

Battle for Brooklyn

the Oscar shortlisted and critically acclaimed documentary film about the Atlantic Yards project

Tuesday 31 January 2012 

Doors open 7:00, Screening 7:30 

Free admission. 

Run time 93 min. Panel discussion and Q &A to follow 

Issue Project Room at The Old American Can Factory 

232 Third St corner Third Ave Gowanus, Brooklyn

  Battle for Brooklyn follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for a professional basketball arena and the densest real estate development in U.S. history. Along the way, he falls in love, gets married and starts a family while living in a vacated building located at the heart of the project site. Over the course of seven years, Daniel spearheads the movement against the development plan as he and the community fight tenaciously in the courts, the streets, and the media to stop the abuse of eminent domain and reveal the corruption at the heart of the plan.

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