BLUEBLOCK GARDENS.

New York City has over 500 miles of coastline which used to be marshes, but now the vast majority is concrete, steel and stone. Floating gardens can help give us back the green edge our city needs to re-establish the aquatic ecosystem and the many ways it benefits the water and the land.

BlueBlock Floating Gardens are a modular system inspired by lilypads, built entirely of salvaged and reclaimed materials, and float on a bed of recycled corks. Designed as a kit, they are easily assembled and launched by volunteers and barge visitors.

Exhibited in the Venice Biennale of Architecture, this innovative and evolving design project was created in collaboration with thread collective.

Donate Your Corks to Float Our Gardens!

BLUEBLOCK GARDENS.

BlueBlock Floating Gardens are a modular system inspired by lilypads, built entirely of salvaged and reclaimed materials, and float on a bed of recycled corks. Designed as a kit, they are easily assembled and launched by volunteers and barge visitors.

Exhibited in the Venice Biennale of Architecture, this innovative and evolving design project was created in collaboration with thread collective.

Launched March 2021, BlueBlock Floating Gardens help soften the city’s hard coastal edges