2006 with Joanne Park
Professor Christopher Hight

In spite of building a protective seawall in the early 20th century, Galveston never fully recovered from the disastrous 1908 hurricane that leveled the city.

This project was a counterintuitive proposal to re-energize the urban landscape by building out into the Gulf beyond the seawall. The businesses along this section of the seawall was primarily owned by Landry’s, the large restaurant entertainment conglomerate.

With this understanding, we proposed a public-private megadevelopment, using their high rise hotel on Galveston seawall as our anchor for a series of interlinked piers into water creating a dynamic network of mixed use spaces.

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