Three creative and very different designs by architecture firms are in the final running to become the new St. Petersburg Pier.
Denmark and New York City-based architecture firm
BIG present "The Wave" -- a curled pier design comprised of three parts: a tributary park, wave walk and a looped wave building that could house leisure activities, museum exhibitions or culinary courses.
Michael Maltzan Architecture, a Los Angeles-based firm, envisions the Pier as a way to integrate the bay water of Tampa Bay with the city of St. Petersburg in a multipurpose design titled "The Lens." A 4,000-seat amphitheater, retail shops, green space with bicycle and pedestrian paths, and an underwater-lit aquarium are among its 35 features.
Finally, New York-based firm
West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture integrates a healthy ecosystem with seagrass meadows and a mangrove coast with a "People's Pier" that connects to a panoramic pavilion known as the St. Petersburg Eye.
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