Thomas Balsley

Thomas Balsley is a renowned designer whose New York City-based
practice is best known for its fusion of landscape and urbanism
in public parks, waterfronts, and plazas throughout the US and
abroad. For over 35 years, Tom’s work has reshaped social and
cultural spaces with robust sustainable landscapes that teem with
public life. In New York City alone, he has completed more than
100 parks and plazas, including the 2014 ASLA Honor Award-winning
Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park and Gantry Plaza Park,
across the East River from the UN; Riverside Park South; Chelsea
Waterside Park; Peggy Rockefeller Plaza; Capitol Plaza; and the
recently completed 51 Astor Place plaza, across from Cooper
Union. In an unprecedented gesture, a small park on 57th Street
was named Balsley Park in recognition of his design contributions
to the city.


Spacemaker Press devoted a monograph to Thomas Balsley
Associates’ work: “Thomas Balsley: The Urban Landscape.” In 2015,
Mr. Balsley received ASLA’s highest design honor, the Design
Medal. ORO Editions has just released his firm’s second
monograph, “Thomas Balsley: Uncommon Ground,” with foreword by
James Corner and an essay by Ian Volner.