Sunday, March 7, 2010

high line NYC

On Saturday, I put my life in jeopardy for the second time by riding the Fung Wah bus down to New York City. I went down there mostly to check out the High Line park, by Field Operations. The former freight rail track has been transformed into a public park in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and is very popular so far with the locals. Here are some pictures:


My mode of transportation



From street level



It was really crowded. Best weather up here all winter...



Moveable lounge chairs on rails



The typical bench used throughout the site



The concept for the design was to embrace the way vegetation overtook the site after it had been abandoned



Some of the existing rails were used in the final design



Sometimes paved into the concrete



For the most part, the views didn't offer much, but a few were good



The work continues... I believe this is the final phase of construction

6 comments:

  1. I like it. I bet it looks great once all the vegetation comes back too, we're still waiting on the buds of spring over here....

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  2. popular with the locals as in the 10,000,000 that live there. very cool though. looks like people have to fight for their piece of park.

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  3. Alex is that the same firm that designed the pentagon memorial? If I'm not mistaken the benches look similar between the two.

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  4. pat, i'm not sure. field operations designed downsview park in toronto, fresh kills in new york, but not sure about the pentagon memorial

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  5. i dont think field operations did the pentagon memorial, but the benches do look very similar....james corner wouldnt copy someone....would he? maybe the pentagon copied him

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  6. you know studio all about "bartering"

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