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...not to mention that the site is currently an open railyard those people can't use one day out of the year...
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Don't be quick to jump on those who are opposing this cultural shed. This debate is an extremely relevant one in this situation, and honestly a fair one. This could honestly become a space that isn't used for 'cultural events' and could very well become a very corporate showroom. All I'm saying is the developers aren't looking out for what's best for New york (Neither are those who oppose this project), that lies somewhere in the middle, but without this discussion we wouldn't be getting the optimum development here. Every 'amenity' a developer proposes is in the name of attracting tenants and revenue, and if they benefit the city that's all for the better, but often, that isn't the case.
     
     
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Don't be quick to jump on those who are opposing this cultural shed. This debate is an extremely relevant one in this situation, and honestly a fair one. This could honestly become a space that isn't used for 'cultural events' and could very well become a very corporate showroom.
It's not the developer who will be running the show here. While it hasn't been decided yet on which organization will run the facility, there is a mandate that it be active. But the definition of what is "culture" isn't as black and white as some of the NIMBYs would like. There will probably be corporate sponsors for events, but should that not be allowed?

The Culture Shed will be at the intersection of the new Hudson Boulevard Park and the High Line Park. It will not be the Javits Center light, but something that will invite people who otherwise probably wouldn't have a reason to go over there. The City doesn't want this to become just another random, sterile neighborhood of apartments and offices, that's why the facility is a mandated part of the site plan. Listening to these people whine about what may or may not happen there is like listening to someone whine about the gift wrapping you put on their gift.



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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.

A cultural institution has been a component of Hudson Yards since the mega-development was first approved in 2004. But portions of it have changed as both the culture shed and the projects surrounding it have evolved. 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.

Culture Shed is being developed by a non-profit the city is establishing, which will raise all funds for the project. Related is not directly involved, though the city may be hired to build the project, according to Ms. Beckelman.

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.

"There have been a lot of shows New York has wanted, and that have wanted to come to New York, that we were not able to get in the past," Ms. Beckelman said. "This creates a tremendous opportunity for the city to host all kinds of new art."
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April 2, 2013
By JENNIFER MALONEY


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As the clock ticks down on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's final year in office, city officials are trying to build momentum for Culture Shed, a planned exhibition and event space in the Hudson Yards development. They have unveiled designs showing how a transparent, 125-foot-tall shell that nests around the building would roll out on tracks to envelop an 18,000 square-foot plaza adjacent to the High Line. They have secured federal tax-exempt status for a nonprofit group to run the space, and created a skeleton board of directors, whose three members include one current and one former member of the Bloomberg administration. And they have won endorsements from prominent figures in the New York art world, among them the directors of the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.

But much remains to be done. The board has yet to estimate the cost of construction, hire staff or begin raising money. One of the reasons the project's backers don't know yet how much the Culture Shed will cost to build is that its retractable shell will be covered in a high-tech material that "has not been used very much on projects in the United States," said Ryan Max, a spokesman for the city's Department of Cultural Affairs.

"The idea here is to see a space that serves the broadest spectrum of the creative sector in New York City," said Kate Levin, the city's commissioner for cultural affairs and a member of Culture Shed's board. The project, she said, is important for "the city's capability to remain on the forefront of innovation." The other board members are Stephen Ross, chairman of Hudson Yards developer Related Companies, and Daniel Doctoroff, CEO and president of Bloomberg LP and a former deputy mayor.

The Culture Shed shell's ability to envelop—and restrict access to—a public, outdoor plaza is a sticking point for members of Manhattan's Community Board 4. The board is expected Wednesday to recommend the city planning commission deny the city's zoning application unless the city comes up with 20,000 square feet of alternative open space in the Hudson Yards development—to make up for what they see as a loss of public space.

Supporters of the project say Culture Shed would fill a void in the city's arts landscape by offering a venue for nonprofit cultural organizations and for-profit creative industries to stage large-scale exhibitions and performances that wouldn't fit elsewhere. Ms. Levin said events could range from museum exhibitions and art installations to film festivals, art auctions, galas and fashion events. Some of those events could generate income to support the Culture Shed's nonprofit arts offerings, she said.

Construction could begin by summer 2014 and be complete by the end of 2017, Ms. Levin said. The shed must be built in tandem with the platform over the West Side rail yards and a 70-story residential tower to which it will be connected. Ms. Levin said she couldn't specify how often the Culture Shed's shell would be deployed over the plaza, but suggested that the venue's suitability for a range of activities—from a farmers market or skating rink to ticketed concerts and theatrical performances—would keep it in demand. "The only purpose of building a building of this complexity is to use it," she said. She said the board hadn't determined an estimate for the construction cost in part because the design incorporates a relatively new material called ETFE, a lightweight, transparent plastic. The material was used for roof of Beijing's "Birds Nest" stadium and would form the skin of the Culture Shed's shell. It is less than 1% the weight of glass and lets in more light.

Officials from MoMA and the Guggenheim said they could envision collaborating with Culture Shed to bring an exhibition from overseas to New York, or to stage a show they couldn't present in their own museums because of size or scheduling constraints. MoMA director Glenn Lowry noted that his institution had spaces ranging up to 15,000 square feet, while Culture Shed—when its shell is extended—would offer a plaza-level, contiguous space twice that size. "It's the kind of place that one can imagine all sorts of uses for," he said.










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Love the simple idea of outdoor movies there. Hadn't even occurred to me that would be a potential use. This is going to be such a versatile space, can't wait to see what NYC does with it.

The Corset and The Culture Shed's connection to the High Line is just going to be amazing. (As is the rest of the Hudson Yards project.)

I can't believe people are complaining about this wonderful event space. Even in a worst-case-scenario where it does end up being used as some sort of corporate playground (which I don't think it will): 1. It's another world-class amenity for the city that will keep NYC competitive and attractive to those corporations and deep pockets 2. The east half of Hudson Yards looks to be about 1/3 public space, and that space wasn't even there before! Couple that with Hudson Park & Boulevard and to my eyes there seems to be a plethora of public space being created that wasn't there before.
     
     
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Very Futuristic!! XD
     
     
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1. It's another world-class amenity for the city that will keep NYC competitive and attractive to those corporations and deep pockets 2. The east half of Hudson Yards looks to be about 1/3 public space, and that space wasn't even there before! Couple that with Hudson Park & Boulevard and to my eyes there seems to be a plethora of public space being created that wasn't there before.
Absolutely agree! The whole Hudson Yards project was very thought out, and will be a very good example of what a new urban community can do to bring cohesion to commercial, residential and public space. This area most definitely has curb appeal.
     
     
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The building to the north (behind) the Equinox tower is Extell's planned One Hudson Yards. Looking at the rendering, you get an idea of just how open the entire Hudson Yards district will be. The area will be dense, but with far more open space than the rest of Midtown's commercial district or the financial district. As mentioned, not only is it the nexus of the High Line and the Hudson Blvd Park, the western half of the yards will include more open space.
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Yeah, I believe this is their first skyscraper.
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Yeah, I believe this is their first skyscraper.
This is one hell of a debut. This is their Appetite For Destruction

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Like the Coach tower, this one won't be built over the railyards...


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Related and Oxford are also securing additional equity investments to fund the construction of the first residential tower planned in the Hudson Yards development. The new building, planned for West 30th and 11th Ave., will be a hybrid rental and condominium tower.
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Culture shed draws mixed reviews
Fears of losing public space at Hudson Yards clash with high praise from arts institutions' big wigs who hail the facility an essential addition






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April 11, 2013

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Like any piece of art, the Hudson Yards Culture Shed drew mixed reviews during a City Planning Commission hearing Wednesday.

Supporters, including representatives of the city's top cultural institutions, praised the proposed 170,000-square-foot artistic institution as a key addition to the city's cultural landscape. Meanwhile, numerous community members blasted the building, with its unusual retractable roof, for privatizing public space, of which there is all too little in the Chelsea/Hell's Kitchen area.

The commissioners seemed enthralled by the prospect of a dynamic exhibition space that could host a wide diversity of visual and performing arts. Some, though, openly sympathized with the community's concerns about the potential loss of public space that has been promised ever Hudson Yards, west of Penn Station was rezoned of 2005.

"It's an incredible design," Commissioner Michelle de la Uz said.

The building is meant to play host to traveling exhibitions and performances from around the country and the world as well as providing space for the city's own cultural institutions to host events their own facilities might preclude.

John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, presented a number of examples of the kinds of opportunities the institution could provide. He pointed to a Matisse show he did in the 1990s, of 400 works, where the entire MoMA collection had to be removed from the museum's 53rd Street building. "The aftermath was a mess, and my colleagues were not pleased," he said. "It was said this would never be done again."

Better yet, he said MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum could team up on shows combining their considerable collections. In terms of traveling shows, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kate Levin, who is leading the Culture Shed project, lamented Van Gogh and Duchamp shows that had been staged in Philadelphia but were unable to find space to travel to New York.


Richard Armstrong, the Guggenheim's director, said the space would transform the city much as the arrival of his museum had generations ago. "We believe [architects] Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Culture Shed is poised to bring a similar sense of artistic dynamism to our city" he said. "The opportunities to present art in what will be one of the world's most versatile structures is unparalleled."

But that versatility is what is angering the neighbors. One of the Culture Shed's signature features is a retractable roof, which can deploy in 15 minutes to double the size of the building, providing protection from a sudden storm or the winter-time cold during performances and exhibitions that use the 20,000-square-foot plaza outside. The community wants City Hall to find 20,000 square feet in new open space to make up for the occasional loss. "This would be a change in the previously agreed upon open-space agreement," said Betty Macintosh, co-chair of Community Board 4's land-use committee. "This is in an area with some of the highest densities allowed in the city, more than 13 million square feet of development at Hudson Yards."

The city insists there would be no undue encroachment. "The mission is to be publicly accessible a vast majority of the time," Ms. Levin said. "The footprints here are not modest. You need to bring people in, not keep them out." The commission is expected to vote on the project next month, possibly with changes addressing the community's concerns.

Erika Mallin, executive director of the Signature Theatre on 42nd Street said the shed would serve as a lynchpin for an emerging cultural district stretching from the new Whitney in the Meatpacking District, up the High Line and through the Theater District to Lincoln Square. "The shed will help to connect us all, a kind of cultural artery for the entire West Side," she said.
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A little video of the moving shed...

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That concept model that Liz Diller shows off is quite interesting. It makes it pretty clear where this building got its design from.
     
     
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I may have missed it already, but did they say how long it will take to extend the shed structure, or what is powering it?
     
     
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Man I hope they do host fashion week there in the future. Hudson Park, The High Line + The Culture Shed will make a spectacular setting.
     
     
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a 70-story residential tower to which it will be connected.

^ So just to be clear the 'corset' skyscraper (that the shed will be attached to) won't start being constructed until AT LEAST 2014, is that correct!? Cause I recently looked at renting on the north side of the OHM (residential apartment just to the south) and thus am very interested to know when that viewed will start to get blocked. Thanks to anyone who can answer.


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