Hargreaves Associates, as part of the Ennead Architects team, received Honorable Mention in the Urban Design Concept Category of the 2014 Re-Thinking the Future Sustainability Awards. The ideas competition project F.R.E.D. (Fostering Resilient Ecological Development) proposed an integrated system of dunes, piers, and housing clusters, offering a solution that is not only practical given the economic and physical constraints of the Rockaways, but also replicable for low-lying coastal communities up and down the Atlantic seaboard. Re-thinking the Future is about envisioning a future that aims to meet human ‘needs’ while preserving the environment so that these ‘needs’ can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations. Read more