The Battery Bosque
Featuring the Battery Springs Fountain and Picnick Kiosks
Site Conditions Pre–renovation
Previously an uninspired space characterized by cracked asphalt, picnic tables and monotonous rows of benches, the Bosque has been completely rebuilt with a host of unique amenities.
Reconstruction Plan and Funding
Opened in June 2005, the Battery Bosque is a garden–filled oasis at the tip of Manhattan. The Bosque, Spanish for “a grove of trees”, completes the second phase of Piet Oudolf’s horticultural master plan for The Battery.
The Bosque features 57,000 square feet of gardens set among 140 mature London plane trees. The Bosque hosts 34,000 perennial plants, two distinctively designed food kiosks and a 40–foot–wide granite spiral fountain. The Conservancy raised $225,000 to fund the Bosque concept design. The realization of this design is funded by an $8.5 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Design Team
- Garden Designer: Piet Oudolf
- Landscape Architects: Saratoga Associates
- Architects: Weisz + Yoes
- Lighting Designer: Linnaea Tillett
