MASterworks Explorations: Beach 98th Playground

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2024 Winner for Best Urban Landscape

This fall, MAS is celebrating design excellence in New York City with our 2024 MASterworks Awards! We have curated a selection of in person explorations and online in-conversations with this year’s honored projects.

On Friday, October 18 from 11-12 PM, join MAS for a visit to Beach 98th Playground, 2024 MASterworks winner for Best Urban Landscape. Adrian Hayes, Landscape Architect from NYC Parks Department’s Queens Capital Project Team, will take attendees throughout the playground, which is a beautiful contribution to the Rockaway’s post-Hurricane Sandy transformation. Spend your morning by the ocean with MAS and the NYC Parks Department!

The Shore Front Parkway Beach 98th Playground is located on the Rockaway Boardwalk along the ocean. The scope of features in the project includes new play equipment for children of various ages, a spray shower, seating areas, a shade structure, game tables, drinking fountains and salt/wind-tolerant landscape materials. Read more about the project >

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Friday, October 18
11:00 AM — 12:00 PM

Shore Front Parkway Beach 98th Playground
Beach 98th St
Rockaway Park, NY 11694

Tickets:
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2024 MASterworks Honoree: Shore Front Parkway Beach 98th Playground. Photo: Landscape Structures Inc.

About the MASterworks Awards:

All nominated projects must be located in New York City and have been completed in the previous year. Projects can be nominated in up to two of the following categories:

  • Best New Building for outstanding architectural design
  • Best Urban Landscape for a new or revitalized open space that contributes to livability and resilience
  • Best Restoration for a project that expertly enhances the original qualities of a significant historic building or structure
  • Best Adaptive Reuse for a project that demonstrates exceptional creativity in adaptive reuse of an existing building or structure
  • Best New Infrastructure for distinctive design in public service projects
  • Best New Urban Amenity for an addition to the built environment that contributes to a more livable city
  • Best Environmental Innovation for an exceptional project that enhances the environmental resiliency of the city

2024 MASterworks Jury:

Every year, MAS convenes an esteemed jury of architects, designers, preservationists, scholars, and critics to select the winners of the MASterworks Awards. This year’s distinguished jury is as follows:

Julia Gamolina, Founder and Editor in Chief, MadameArchitect.org
Susan Hinkson-Carling, AIA, LLM, MAS Board of Directors and Principal, Capalino Ventures, LLC
Walter Rodriguez Meyer, PLA, Principal, Local Office Landscape & Urban Design
Roberta Washington, FAIA, Principal, Roberta Washington Architects PC

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