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Oyster-tecture: Scape Studio Plans to Build a Park Filled with Millions of Oysters to Clean the Gowanus Canal

09/04/2012
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  • Proposed mollusk park
    NYC has some great oyster bars, but its most in-demand shellfish yet may soon be coming to the Gowanus Canal instead of to your favorite seafood restaurant. Scape Studio has received funding for its ambitious <a href="http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/">Oyster-tecture</a> project - an oyster park for millions of mollusks at the mouth of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal">Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster">Oysters</a> have the unique ability to 'eat' toxins and dirt, so the new park could be just the way to clean up what is currently one of the nation's most polluted waterways.
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  • Brooklyn Oyster Park
    NYC has some great oyster bars, but its most in-demand shellfish yet may soon be coming to the Gowanus Canal instead of to your favorite seafood restaurant. Scape Studio has received funding for its ambitious <a href="http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/">Oyster-tecture</a> project - an oyster park for millions of mollusks at the mouth of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal">Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster">Oysters</a> have the unique ability to 'eat' toxins and dirt, so the new park could be just the way to clean up what is currently one of the nation's most polluted waterways.
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  • Oyster-tecture
    NYC has some great oyster bars, but its most in-demand shellfish yet may soon be coming to the Gowanus Canal instead of to your favorite seafood restaurant. Scape Studio has received funding for its ambitious <a href="http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/">Oyster-tecture</a> project - an oyster park for millions of mollusks at the mouth of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal">Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster">Oysters</a> have the unique ability to 'eat' toxins and dirt, so the new park could be just the way to clean up what is currently one of the nation's most polluted waterways.
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  • Oyster-tecture Mollusk Park
    NYC has some great oyster bars, but its most in-demand shellfish yet may soon be coming to the Gowanus Canal instead of to your favorite seafood restaurant. Scape Studio has received funding for its ambitious <a href="http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/">Oyster-tecture</a> project - an oyster park for millions of mollusks at the mouth of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal">Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster">Oysters</a> have the unique ability to 'eat' toxins and dirt, so the new park could be just the way to clean up what is currently one of the nation's most polluted waterways.
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Proposed mollusk park

NYC has some great oyster bars, but its most in-demand shellfish yet may soon be coming to the Gowanus Canal instead of to your favorite seafood restaurant. Scape Studio has received funding for its ambitious Oyster-tecture project - an oyster park for millions of mollusks at the mouth of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. Oysters have the unique ability to 'eat' toxins and dirt, so the new park could be just the way to clean up what is currently one of the nation's most polluted waterways.

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