The Tower Museum | New York City | Fletcher Priest Architects

This is a monument to celebrate the cosmopolitan, urban and global character of New York City. The Tower Museum located at the tip of Manhattan on a pier projecting from Battery Park, not only functions as an architectural landmark on the skyline, terminating the north-south axis that extends to uptown Manhattan, but also integrates and revitalizes the immediate area. It houses a museum which will display the personal effects, souvenirs and photos of a new generation of immigrants who arrived after 1960..........more

Seaside Resort | Birnbeck Island | Weston-super-Mare | Fletcher Priest Architects

Seaside towns and ports encapsulate the romance and character of the British. For over two hundred years, they provided an escape from centres of industry. Ordinary and exotic co-existed side by side, and discovering the extraordinary in the ordinariness is what excites the curious visitor. Birnbeck Island has been used as a steamer pier, a weapon testing area and a pier-head ride with recreational facilities. The proposal takes advantage of the isolated location, the perfect setting for a hedonistic life-style, based upon health and well being........more