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Old Posted Feb 5, 2013, 9:46 PM
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Hudson Yard's Culture Shed detailed
City Planning Commission presents plans for new cultural facility to rise in Hudson Yards. Now proposal goes to a community board for review.



By Matt Chaban
February 5, 2013


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On Monday, the City's Department of Cultural Affairs provided its most detailed plans yet for Culture Shed, a 170,000-square-foot visual and performing arts institution that will anchor the southern end of The Related Cos.'s 26-acre Hudson Yards project west of Penn Station.

Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockewell Group, the building is envisioned as a kuntshalle, essentially a museum with no permanent collection, that would accommodate shows from local and international cultural establishments. Its most dramatic feature will be a 140-foot retractable structure that when rolled into place will double the size of the ground-floor gallery.

"We spent the past few years studying what was really missing from the cultural landscape, what is it New York City isn't getting culturally," Laurie Beckelman, a consultant on the project, said following a City Planning Commission hearing on the plan Monday.

Among the proposed changes is that the 150-foot-tall Culture Shed, will be 70,000 square feet larger than the 100,000-square-foot cultural space approved in 2004. The building, which will abut the High Line along 30th Street near 11th Avenue, was to have been surrounded on all sides by public open space. The building has now been shifted west, nestled inside a neighboring apartment building, also designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with which it will share back-of-house space.

Culture Shed promoters say the changes will create a larger, higher-quality public space that allows for a free-flowing connection between the High Line, a large public plaza at the heart of the Hudson Yards eastern block and Hudson Boulevard, a park that will extend to 42nd Street.

Some planning commissioners worried this was a move by Related, which is developing the residential tower, to increase the height of its building, since the shared space will not count against the developer's air rights within the project.

"They want the (additional size)," Commissioner Irwin Cantor said.


During the course of explaining the zoning changes, the city revealed a number of new details about the project. Its main entrance will be on 30th Street, under the High Line, with entrances on the Hudson Yards platform, as well. There will be three galleries within the building and a fourth on the roof that will be open to the sky with an adjoining café.

Installations and works on the rooftop space and on the plaza outside over which the roof can extend will be open to the public. Shows within the building will require admission. When the plaza is not in use for shows, it will have movable seating and landscaping akin to what has been installed in Times Square and is bound for the Metropolitan Museum.


Another look at the model...

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