Plans for the QueensWay call for turning an inaccessible area at its northern end into a small park featuring a playground and rain gardens to reduce flooding in heavy rain.

An inaccessible, overgrown space on Yellowstone Boulevard could become an access point to the QueensWay, with seating, landscaped plantings, and a small play area and garden.

The viaduct between Atlantic and Liberty avenues in Ozone Park will feature new walkways, seating areas, and a bike bath.

A rendering of the QueensWay as it would appear near Metropolitan Avenue. Supporters say the QueensWay would provide safe walkways and bike paths for easier access to shopping areas and Forest Park, in addition to creating outdoor learning areas for three nearby schools.

Recreation areas would be added atop the QueensWay's elevated section, while pathways would connect commuters to the A subway line.

The QueensWay would run below grade for nearly a mile through Forest Park. Currently overgrown and unused, this section, called the ravine, would provide opportunities for year-round recreation.

A classroom in PS 313.

PS 313 is a school in Sunnyside, Queens for 432 kindergarteners through fifth graders that opened in the fall of 2014. Equipped with a central courtyard and rooftop play area, the brick masonry building has attained a green rating from New York City.

Macrae-Gibson designed a 45,000-square-foot structure to add to PS 196Q's existing 1952 building in Forest Hills, Queens. The new building houses a new cafeteria and play yard deck and space for 644 additional students.

Accessory dwell units (ADUs), compact spaces built on home lots, would allow for room for extended family visits or rental spaces. This plan by Gans Studio took advantage of the CHCP’s competition as an opportunity for architects to disregard city regulations when innovating housing solutions. An Array of Bungalow Additions. Queens, NY. Gans Studio. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.

At the back of the Airstream, a U-shaped lounging area converts into a queen-sized bed for adults.

Located on the corner of a busy thoroughfare, the building—with its illuminated ceiling, which glows through floor-to-ceiling windows—acts as a beacon in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens.

The design's use of color and light earned it an AIA Healthcare Design Award in the under $25 million category.

The waiting room features clean lines and pops of bright colors, making what can be a stressful environment a soothing space.

Patients enter through a bright orange door that recalls classic midcentury forms, while a perforated metal screen adds a uniform face over existing windows, letting in sunlight during the day and allowing the building to emit a warm glow at night.

The New York Hospital Queens Astoria Primary Care Clinic takes a new approach to the health center. Its two-story brick building was completely gutted by Michielli + Wyetzner Architects, adding new exam and consultation rooms in a sleek, modern form.

The Nature Pod is available as an empty shell without insulation for €13K. Furniture and millwork throughout the rest of the unit, including the queen-sized futon in the bedroom and storage options, must be purchased as add-ons.

A queen-size Murphy bed folds down from this interior wall, transforming open living space into a bedroom.

At night, the dinette is converted into a queen-sized bed.

The bedroom accommodates a queen-size bed and built-in wood shelving.

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Portraits of drag queens by San Francisco artist Jim Winters sit above Noguchi lamps.

The bedroom fits a queen-sized memory foam mattress and plenty of storage.

In the house’s single bedroom, a queen-size bed sits on a platform constructed by local woodworkers.

The couple created a built-in dinette, with an adjustable table, that converts to a queen-size bed.

This sleeping loft has a queen-sized mattress with plenty of headroom for reading in bed.

A built-in sofa in the living area features storage in the base and pulls out into a queen-size bed for guests.

The sofa converts to a queen-size bed complete with a Casper mattress. Bedding tucks away neatly in the storage below.

The Airstream Haus’s interior is minimalist, but comfortable, boasting a fully functional kitchen and queen-size bed that doubles as a couch.

A vacant lot in Queens, New York, is now owned by a community land trust established by neighbors.

On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries is on view at the Noguchi Museum in Queens until April 24, 2011.

In this home in Queens, NYC, O’Neill Rose Architects designed a fun sky blue island and backsplash made of painted glass.

The sleeping loft accommodates a queen-size bed. Original artworks by MSusan are double-sided and help to separate the space from the other areas of the home.

The sun-drenched main living area opens up to a galley kitchen and a convertible U-sofa that transforms into a queen-sized bed for occasional guests.

Isla's bedroom is outfitted with a metal sconce, a white-painted shelf that serves as a bedside table, and a queen-size bed, where the family likes to read together.

Sleep under the stars in a plush, queen-sized bed, while also enjoying all the creature comforts of a private top floor suite.