NEW YORK (AP) — Ten teams of global experts participating in a federally funded design competition unveiled 41 projects Monday they said could help protect the New York and New Jersey coastlines from the type of flooding seen a year ago during Superstorm Sandy. The ideas, exhibited at a forum at New York University, range from the simple and seemingly common sense, to imaginative proposals that would dramatically remake the seaside for an age of rising sea levels. One team, led by the Bjarke Ingels Group, an architectural firm based in Denmark, proposed an 8-mile-long system of levees and berms that would protect low-lying areas of Manhattan, but would be largely hidden inside parks and public art.
Teams pitch 41 ideas to protect coastlines