High Line Park in New York
report p. 1164 - 1165Architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro |
This summer an 800-metre segment of the High Line opened to the public. The elevated railway once bore freight traffic on Manhattan’s southwest edge, but had been derelict since 1980. Varying in width from 10 to 20 m, the platform gently navigates the ubiquitous grid, while its rhythm is determined by a combination of existing spatial situations and new elements. A hotel by Polshek and Partners, for example, straddles the park at one such juncture. And elsewhere the platform is divided into multiple levels or penetrates a building. Property owners adjacent to the tracks once fought the project – initiated by the “Friends of the High Line” – but now find that the value of their real estate has increased significantly.
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