Piero Lissoni wins design competition with waterfront aquarium in New York

Italian architect Piero Lissoni has won a speculative competition for a site on
New York 's East River with his proposal for a submerged circular aquarium.

The open ideas competition organised by Arch Out Loud called for an aquarium and waterfront proposal at Long Island City's 11th Street Basin – opposite Louis Kahn's Four Freedoms Park at the lower tip of Roosevelt Island. Lissoni came top with his Aquatrium design, comprising two circular elements within an extended basin.