
A rendering of Geuze's island.Image: Park-CenteroftheWorld.org
Geuze doesn't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that parkland on this flat, 172-acre harbor gem should lure private developers; instead, his team proposes demolishing the existing buildings on the island and landscaping their rubble as mountains and ravines. Some 3,000 wood-frame bikes would be available for free, for exploring a "botanical forest" and traversing the edge of the island. "The island should be as green as broccoli," he proclaimed, to amens and giggles. The jury may be less amused — there were good reasons Corner and Prince-Ramus were front-runners — but Geuze seems, despite that hair, unruffled. "America is about entertainment, about show," he told us later. "I was a little surprised that everybody else seemed so serious." —Alec Appelbaum
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