 | The Farmington Canal -- as seen from beside the Malone Building looking toward Prospect Street. |
The Farmington Canal Rail-to-Trail Association will honor President Richard C. Levin, the firm of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and landscape designer Diana Balmori for their successful efforts to incorporate the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail into the design of the Malone Engineering and Research Building at the corner of Trumbull and Prospect streets.
An award ceremony and press conference will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Malone Engineering Building, 55 Prospect St.
The Farmington Canal Heritage Trail is on the old New York-New Haven-Hartford Railroad Line, which replaced the original Farmington Canal in 1848. Built soon after the completion of the Erie Canal, the Farmington Canal went from the New Haven Harbor through the towns of Hamden, Cheshire, Southington, Plainville, Farmington, Avon, Simsbury, East Granby and Suffield in Connecticut to Northampton, Massachusetts. A three-block-long segment of the line, an essential link from New Haven to Hamden, runs through Yale-owned property.
Yale and the architects of the 63,117-square-foot engineering and research building had several options regarding the portion of the historic trail running through the site, says Farmington Canal Rail-to-Trail Association founder and former president, Nancy Alderman.
"They might have decided to fill in the canal corridor, making the building site larger but obliterating the original path of the canal forever, or they might have built over the corridor, which, while allowing the trail to be continuous, would have severely compromised the greenway surrounding it. However, they chose the most difficult option for such a small building site, which was to integrate the new building with the historic greenway," Alderman says. "We are presenting awards to Yale and the architects for choosing the most difficult and most environmentally sensitive solution."
The Farmington Canal Rail-to-Trail Association is the non-profit, membership organization that has spearheaded the redevelopment of the former Farmington Canal and Railroad Line into a recreational greenway. The entire corridor in Connecticut runs 54 miles from New Haven to Suffield.
This historic corridor, now being brought back to life, reconnects the towns to the north of New Haven, just as the canal did in the time of James Hillhouse and Eli Whitney in the 1830s. With more than half of the greenway now completed, the trail has become a popular site for such recreational activities as biking, jogging, roller-blading and strolling.
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