The partnership of the Van Alen Institute, National Parks Conservation Association, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation invites designers worldwide to play a vital role in Gateway National Recreation Area’s future. They seek innovative, visionary, and compelling proposals that celebrate the park’s unique potential as both a significant regional resource and a national environmental treasure. Created in 1972, Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway) stretches across 26,607 acres of the New York-New Jersey harbor and coast. In addition, the 1,358-acre Floyd Bennett Field site within the Jamaica Bay Unit of Gateway will receive closer investigation and project development.