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Thanks for the map NYguy.
It looks pretty popular. Hopefully the entire area gets a nice development boost out of it later on. Now after that one mile long section is developed, is there anymore that can be developed later? I am looking at a map of it now on google earth and it looks like a short segment picks up again after the southern part ends. |
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Its so cool. Like a boardwalk, New York style! I wonder what it will look like when that development starts. In ten years that whole coastline could have a huge amount of high-rise and skyscrapers.
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^^^You say a development boost in the future, you mean larger then the one happening now? Besides this area doesn't need massive skyscrapers, it just wouldn't fit well in the area...
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This thing looks great. I'm really glad NYC went ahead and built this public space.
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Offically finished. But why does everybody say that it competes with Central Park. It has views, and a little height but thats it. Central Park is a gem and a masterpiece that shouldn't be compared to a railline. But great reuse of the rail.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/06162009...dg__174487.htm
HIGH TIME FOR HIGH LINE BLDG. http://www.nypost.com/seven/06162009...s/hot_spot.jpg Manhattan's latest hot spot -- the new High Line Park -- will connect with a renovated office and retail building, seen here in an artist's rendering. http://www.nypost.com/img/cols/stevecuozzo.jpg June 16, 2009 COMING soon to the new High Line Park: A gleaming, 15-story boutique office and retail building through which the park literally passes. Since the long-awaited elevated park between Gansevoort and West 20th streets opened last week, strollers have been awed by the Standard Hotel that straddles it, but baffled by the 103-foot-long tunnel at 14th Street topped by 11 stories of structural steel. But CB Developers' 450 W. 14th St., officially the High Line Building, will start coming into focus next month when installation of curtain-wall glass is expected to start. The tiny tower now under construction is a rare commercial breed. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects to LEEDS Gold standards, it will have a mere 78,000 square feet of office space on 10 new floors, two of which have already been leased to Helmut Lang. The glass office floors will stand atop a landmarked, masonry base -- a former meat cold-storage facility -- containing 7,636 square feet of retail under a 23-foot-high ceiling, and over 4,000 square feet in the basement. The park runs above the store section and beneath the offices. It's "the only building that features a structure which is entirely integrated with that of the High Line," Adjmi said. The office floors are being marketed by a Newmark Knight Frank team led by Brian Waterman. Asking rents run from the mid-$70s to the mid-$80s. Winick's Lori Shabtai and Kelly Gedinsky are handling the retail, where the ground-floor "ask" is $300 a foot, "significantly less" than other retail nearby, Gedinsky said. Until the park opened last week, it might have been hard for many to visualize. Charles Blaichman, a CB principal, chuckled, "I think a lot of people didn't actually get it." Winick's Gedinsky echoed, "It's hard for people to visualize something that does not exist." But the park is already so popular, employees inside 450 W. 14th St. will have a lot of company. |
Amazing public space.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/ga...er=rss&emc=rss
‘West Side Story’ Amid the Laundry http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...25seen-600.jpg IMPROVISATION On a recent evening, Elizabeth Soychak performed jazz standards from Patty Heffley’s West 20th Street fire escape, just yards away from the High Line park, which Ms. Heffley has turned into the site of her ad-hoc Renegade Cabaret. By PENELOPE GREEN June 24, 2009 JUST after 9 p.m. on June 17, the third installment of the High Line Park Renegade Cabaret was held on Patty Heffley’s fourth-floor fire escape. There were colored lanterns, and a festive array of undergarments hung from the railings. The Renegade Cabaret Ms. Heffley, 55, a former punk rock photographer, had staged a laundry “installation,” as she put it, to bolster the live performance she was hosting. Elizabeth Soychak, a jazz singer and professional organizer who gives her age as “permanently 39,” wore a 1950s moss green chiffon dress and waited while Ms. Heffley, in black, introduced her. “This is in response to 31 years of obscurity,” Ms. Heffley announced from the fire escape. “Now, every day there are thousands of people looking in my window. We’re not here to celebrate, we’re here to exploit. Welcome to the Renegade Cabaret.” Then Ms. Soychak launched into an a cappella rendition of Johnny Mercer’s “Early Autumn.” Location, as all New Yorkers know, is destiny, and Ms. Heffley is embracing hers with gusto. Since 1978, she has been living in a West 20th Street loft, yards away from the elevated track-turned-park-and-public-works-darling known as the High Line. Though the High Line extends from Gansevoort Street north to West 34th, it has been planted and paved only as far north as 20th Street; a gate there bars people from walking farther, and visitors bottleneck at that point. Furthermore, though the ambient lighting of the path was designed by the High Line’s architects, Diller, Scofidio & Renfro, to glow mistily from the meadow beds on either side of the walkway, the lights planted on top of the stairway exit were installed by contractors who happened to point the harsh white beams right at Ms. Heffley’s windows. Like it or not, Ms. Heffley’s living room has become a stage, and her fire escape — her front porch — its proscenium arch. MS. HEFFLEY, now a freelance multimedia consultant, moved to New York from Denver 31 years ago, eager to photograph Manhattan’s punk scene. She chose her apartment (rent, $360, now $841) because it was a place where she could make a lot of noise. The High Line was an agreeable presence. At first, a single locomotive rumbled by once or twice a week, but that eventually stopped. Then weeds began to grow. Ms. Heffley always wanted to plant flowers, but never found a way. “I tried filling a water balloon with seeds,” she said. “But it’s farther than you think.” Days before the park’s opening on June 9, Ms. Heffley called her friend Ms. Soychak and said: “I’ve got to do something. Can you sing a few songs?” Opening night was magical, both agreed. Ms. Soychak performed two three-song “micro sets,” as she called them, to a warmly appreciative audience. By laundry day, however, Ms. Heffley was panicking. Her loft has a washing machine, but no dryer; for three decades, she’s used the fire escape. “I realized I can’t go out in my get-up,” Ms. Heffley said, pulling out her typical laundry day attire: orange gingham boxers and a fuchsia nightie. “So I put on a red tutu, a red hoodie and sunglasses. I proceeded to put my laundry out as usual, but with the underwear at the back.” Soon, she was staging the laundry: drying the real stuff late at night, and by day, hanging goofier items like ruffled panties and leopard prints. One day someone called to her from the path, “I hope you don’t lose your energy for the laundry.” Ms. Heffley was uplifted by the encouragement. “I’ll be putting other kinds of stuff out there, too. I have lots of ideas.” The Cabaret now has a Facebook page, and a Web site is under construction. AT last week’s performance, David Hausen and Rocky Ziegler, filmmakers out for an evening stroll, listened happily from a park bench. Mr. Hausen asked, “Do they take requests?” Nearby, a man in a khaki vest was singing along. “I know what time it is now,” he warbled as Ms. Soychak performed a Rodgers and Hart classic. At 10 p.m., closing time for the park and the cabaret, Ms. Heffley and Ms. Soychak bid the audience goodnight. “If you see the party patio lanterns lit,” Ms. Heffley told them, “you’ll know something is going to go on when it gets dark.” Robert Hammond, a founder of the Friends of the High Line and a member of the audience, remarked, “This is what we wanted,” referring to the cabaret. “It is going to keep it wild more than that will,” he continued, pointing to a patch of wildflowers. As for the lights that shine like kliegs into Ms. Heffley’s windows, he said ruefully, “We screwed up on those.” But he brightened when told that she had said they were good for a stage. The Renegade Cabaret, he said, “is born of a mistake, just like the park.” |
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NYGuy...those pictures, especially the nighttime ones, were fucking beautiful. Actually though, I can't wait 'til the initial hype is over and it becomes less of a mob scene and more of a quiet park atmosphere. Then it will really be absorbed into the fabric of this unbelieveable city.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/07..._for_nude.html
Standard Hotel Calls for Nude Photos http://images.nymag.com/images/2/dai...rd_250x375.jpg 7/14/09 By now anybody who has visited the High Line (especially at night) has probably heard about, or seen, the sex show that goes on nightly through the windows of the towering Standard Hotel. Of course, this is what hotelier André Balazs intended all along (how else to explain the transparent shower dividers?), and he's no doubt been thrilled by all the coverage (or lack thereof). Evidence of his delight comes today from the Standard Hotel's blog, where management is not only encouraging public sex acts, but is actually asking for evidence. They're asking for photos of sex in the Standard's rooms, like this racy Purple magazine shoot (NSFW). They almost make it sound arty: Now, we're asking YOU, our Stan D'elovely amateur pornographers to send in your most erotic photos shot at The Standard, New York. You can email them to us, or you can upload them directly to our Facebook page by tagging the pictures The Standard, New York. Whatever you do, just make sure the shots are HOT and that you get them to us in whichever way you can. It's all about sex all the time, and you're our star. C** on over. Like we said, almost arty. http://www.standardhotels.com/los-an...e/stan-d-arde/ |
High Line envy in Philadelphia
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MICHAEL BRYANT /Inquirer Staff Photographer A steel staircase at Gansevoort Avenue is the southernmost entrance to New York’s High Line. The elevated park provides a viewing platform that can be used to take in the theater of the street. Builders — helped by a budget of $150 million — removed the old rails, excavated down to the concrete bed, and added plantings, benches, and chaise longues. from here: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/51003302.html Changing Skyline: Reinventing a railroad By Inga Saffron Philadelphia Inquirer Architecture Critic 15 JUL 2009 NEW YORK - As America busily transforms itself into Information Nation, we've rediscovered the tough beauty of our old downtown manufacturing buildings. Their light-saturated, industrial-age interiors are intensely coveted by the creative class. So then, where's the love for the monumental structures that supported those churning workshops - the grain elevators, coal chutes, and elevated rail lines that were the 20th century's equivalent of the great cathedrals and aqueducts? The recent restoration and reinvention of New York's High Line should go a long way toward opening people's eyes to the potential of those industrial relics. Built in the 1930s to supply the meatpackers and manufacturers on Manhattan's West Side, the abandoned rail line has just been repurposed as a glorious elevated park that offers a delightful new way to experience the city. Traditionally, city parks have been envisioned as serene enclosures, cocooning us from the hubbub of urban life. The new High Line park does the opposite: It provides a viewing platform to take in the theater of the street. The park, which should be a model for Philadelphia's unloved Reading Viaduct in the Loft District, also serves as an auxiliary stage on which to try out new dramas. Although the first nine blocks of New York's ribbon park went public only in June, the shifting garden path - designed by Philadelphia's James Corner, along with New York's Diller, Scofidio + Renfro - already is one of Manhattan's hottest tickets. Set in the heart of Chelsea's art and design district, the High Line plays host to a daily style parade from the nearby galleries and fashion houses. With its array of sustainable, IPE wood chaise longues, diving-board-style benches, and cafe tables, the scene is part poolside, part office-worker's respite. The first week alone, about 70,000 people clattered up the park's steel staircases, which begin at Gansevoort Street, just east of 10th Avenue. The four entrances were cut into the bed of the existing structure, and all were intentionally designed as narrow slits that constrict views of the park. As a result, you don't merely emerge onto the surface, you burst into a 360-degree vortex of open sky. The long-distance views extend to the southern tip of Manhattan, but there are also more intimate glimpses into the meatpacking district's surviving cobblestone lanes. The unusual perch is key to the High Line's charm. You can certainly get a dramatic view of Manhattan's streets from the Empire State Building, but that's like watching a movie play out on your iPhone in comparison to the High Line's IMAX experience. As Corner observed during a recent walk, the park "is primarily an instrument to see the city." Corner, who chairs the University of Pennsylvania's landscape architecture department (and is a finalist for the city's Pier 11 park design), beat out several well-known architects for the High Line commission in 2004 largely because his design recognized that the derelict structure could be a neutral ground - uniting nature and the industrial city. Essentially, Corner and his New York-based Field Operations were proposing to refine what the High Line had already become. During the two decades that the structure sat vacant, it had evolved into a dense meadow that was almost primal in its wildness. Thick grasses and weed trees obscured its railroad past. Because such wide-open spaces are rare in Manhattan, the rusting structure became a favorite with urban explorers. When developers began lobbying New York officials for demolition in the late 1990s, its admirers launched a campaign to make people appreciate the industrial stray. They enlisted the noted photographer Joel Sternfeld to document the High Line's unusual beauty. His images revealed a romantic, ever-changing ghost street wending its way silently above Chelsea's hectic art scene. Those photographs proved more powerful than the High Line's fans ever imagined. Instead of demanding demolition, developers began pushing into Chelsea with glittering condos designed by some of architecture's biggest names. New York officials did a quick about-face and asked the High Line's admirers to start raising money for a city park. They provided Corner's team with an astounding $150 million to pour into the project, which eventually will snake up 10th Avenue and wrap around the West Side rail yards before concluding at 34th Street, a block from Penn Station. The money has been well spent. About half went into refurbishing the riveted steel structure, which runs mid-block in many places and tunnels through existing buildings. Initially there was some thought of incorporating the weeds and steel rails, but Corner chose to excavate down to the concrete bed and re-create the meadow. While Corner's High Line landscape looks as if it has been sown by the wind, it is really a constructed garden whose plantings were carefully chosen by Dutch horticulturist Piet Oudolf to evoke a more colorful, more sculptural version of a wild meadow. Plants with shapely, ornamental seed pods were favored, and the list includes such familiar species as Andropogon grass, liriope, astilbe, begonia, and flowering quince, along with river birches and sumac trees. Corner wanted the plantings to look as if they had sprouted randomly, so he designed paving planks that taper at the ends, creating narrow openings that mimic the cracks of the rail bed. Sections of rail were also reinstalled, giving the impression of having always been there. Meanwhile, Corner's furniture designs riff on nature's resilience: His park benches are a continuation of the pavers. They rise from the surface, just as the park's design emerged out of the wild landscape. Chaise longues roll along the rails as freight trains once did. Because the High Line is so linear, Corner struggled to keep the park itself from feeling like a bowling alley. The path intentionally bobs and weaves, opening up unexpected perspectives on surrounding buildings, like the fluttering white glass sails on Frank Gehry's IAC offices and Jean Nouvel's gridded, blue-glass condos on 11th Avenue. As with a natural landscape, the experience changes as you move through it. There's a boggy area here, a small forest there, then suddenly a man-made intrusion rears up. One of the most dramatic is Polshek Partnership Architects' 265-foot-tall Standard hotel, which aggressively straddles the old freight bed. Farther on, you come to Diller, Scofidio's amphitheater, which offers a wide-screen view of the passing traffic on 10th Avenue - and makes it as riveting as a Broadway show. Unlike the waterfront paths that have become popular in New York and Philadelphia, the High Line is not a recreation trail where pedestrians are forced to dodge bikes and joggers. It's conceived as a refuge for the old-fashioned flaneur, a place to stroll, people-watch, or just do nothing. In Philadelphia, a like-minded group of urban explorers has been advocating for a local version of the High Line on the Reading Viaduct, which runs from Vine to Brown Street, shifting eastward from 11th to Ninth. Unfortunately, Chinatown leaders have loudly opposed the idea, arguing - like the New York developers - that the viaduct should be torn down to create land for housing. Forget the huge cost of demolishing the viaduct - estimated at $35 million. Losing the noble stone structure would actually strip Philadelphia's Loft District of a potentially valuable amenity and make it a less distinctive place to live. As the High Line shows: Leave it and they will come. Contact architecture critic Inga Saffron at 215-854-2213 or isaffron@phillynews.com. |
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http://curbed.com/archives/2009/07/2...r_revealed.php
West Chelsea Gold Rush Redux: High Line Tower Revealed http://curbednetwork.com/cache/galle...8f8b73c6_o.jpg Monday, July 20, 2009, by Pete [Renderings via Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects.] Now that the High Line has become this summer's big hit, get ready for more new construction to pop up on the open spaces that abut the rails. A big one is called the High Line Tower, a mixed-use proposal designed by Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects for Tenth Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets (UPDATE: Gates Merkulova Architects also created this dream factory). It would rise on both sides of the High Line and include a 13-story hotel and 23-story condo, with a "through-block shopping arcade" beneath the old rails to connect the combined lots.] A previous plan from 2006 by Kevin Kennon Architects (no longer visible at their website) has also been preserved at Wired New York. Pick your favorite! The owner of the site, Heby Realty Corp., has bargained for some development rights from a property further south along the High Line. One little lot at the corner of West 29th has been vacated, but so far there's no sign of much activity. This block has another biggie in the works, the 620-unit Avalon West Chelsea that was stalled but, according to the DOB, is now seeing new life. With the next segment of the High Line stretching up to 30th Street set to open in late 2010, folks are advised to check out the trestle-top views as early as possible. And enjoy the open vistas while they last. http://www.lhparch.com/project.aspx?cat=1&id=7 http://curbednetwork.com/cache/galle...585e77b6_o.jpg___http://curbednetwork.com/cache/galle...5021b93c_o.jpg http://curbednetwork.com/cache/galle...eeab3e0c_o.jpg http://curbednetwork.com/cache/galle...4cc4a76f_o.jpg The Gates Merkulova Architects website has many more renderings including this shot of the arcade beneath the High Line http://www.gmarch.com/High%20Line/index_HighLine.html http://curbed.com/uploads/arcade.1-1-thumb.jpg http://www.gmarch.com/High%20Line/im...HL_curve.V.jpg http://www.gmarch.com/High%20Line/im...e%202/SE_V.jpg http://www.gmarch.com/High%20Line/im.../roof-plan.jpg |
Extended blog post with plenty of pictures from the High Line at Daily Kos:
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Friends and lovers on the High Line...
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http://curbed.com/archives/2009/08/2...ytiny_trim.php
High Line Hardship Building Gets a Teeny-Tiny Trim http://cdn0.curbednetwork.com/cache/...7027d16b_o.png Friday, August 21, 2009, by Lockhart Above, the original, semi-mind-blowing design for 437 West 13th Street, an office tower slated to rise just north of the Standard Hotel, astride the High Line. Back in February, the developers, the Romanoff family, applied for a hardship zoning variance to build to this height—215 feet, in point of fact—asserting that building so close to the High Line would prevent them from taking full advantage of the site. Oh suurrre, said critics, who see the High Line as a developer's wet dream. The Board of Standards and appeals will finally hear the variance case next month, and in advance of that, the Romanoffs have made a few tiny trims to the project: they'll cut the height a whopping 14 feet, down to 201 feet. The minuscule cantilever out over the High Line—see it there? That little ledge?—will be eliminated, as will a basement. Whether that'll be enough to get this baby approved, we'll find out next month. http://cdn0.curbednetwork.com/cache/...82a87c51_o.png http://cdn0.curbednetwork.com/cache/...312112fb_o.png http://cdn0.curbednetwork.com/cache/...481816fe_o.png |
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252009...er__186393.htm
EYEFUL TOWER! NEW DRAW IN NAKED CITY http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252009...aked_women.jpg RISQUÉ BUSINESS: More people are flocking to the High Line's Standard hotel as word spreads of X-rated sights like these gals cavorting behind floor-to-ceiling windows. By AMBER SUTHERLAND and LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT August 25, 2009 More people are flocking to the High Line's Standard hotel as word spreads of X-rated sights like these gals cavorting behind floor-to-ceiling windows. The city might want to rename its newest park the "Thigh Line." Thrill-seekers yesterday flocked to the Meatpacking District's newly christened High Line urban paradise to catch a glimpse of the free skin show playing out in the massive windows at The Standard hotel, which straddles the park. "It's a little peep show -- but instead of being on 42nd Street, it's down here at the High Line," said Andre Landeros Michel, 34, a Chelsea designer who regularly ventures over to view randy Standard guests having sex in front of the massive floor-to-ceiling windows in full view of the park. A Parks Department worker said that plenty of people come to the park, built on the old elevated train tracks, specifically to watch the erotic exhibitionism. "I think it's healthy and fun -- it's flirtatious," said Harlem resident Aaron Lipman, 34, a media research analyst who works near the park. "It's like 'Wild Kingdom,' " added Lipman, who came to peer up at the windows with pal Jillian Andersen, 26. But, as The Post reported yesterday, the hotel's X-rated windows are drawing ire from families and local business people who are sick of the nightly sexcapades and porn shoots on display. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called The Standard on the carpet, calling the alleged window action "unacceptable." Yesterday, hotel officials -- who had bluntly encouraged the raunchy behavior, boasting on the inn's Web site that "it's all about sex, all the time" -- said they will try to be more sensitive. "We will make a concerted effort to remind guests of the transparency of the guest windows," management said in a statement. The Standard also sent a conciliatory letter to Quinn, sources said. "We are encouraged by the action they have taken," Quinn said yesterday, adding that she will continue to "monitor the situation." But voyeuristic New Yorkers think the show should go on. "We saw two feet pressed against the glass in an apparent attempt to get better leverage," said sightseer Lipman. "Our curiosity is piqued -- but it hasn't yet been satisfied. We'll come back." Added Andersen: "If you didn't want to be seen you'd draw the curtains." |
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Getting their glass in gear http://nypost.com/rw/nypost/2009/09/...s--300x300.jpg September 8, 2009 IF you're a High Line stroller baffled by the unfinished project at 450 W. 14th St., which straddles the wildly popular new park, you're not alone. We were curious, too, having written nearly three months ago that curtain-wall glass would soon adorn the 15-story structure that's now a steel skeleton. So far, no glass. High Line-goers might want to see naked people, like the ones who sometimes strut their stuff in the Standard Hotel's transparent windows, as The Post reported -- but a naked building? We wondered if owner CB Developers was having some kind of trouble completing the boutique office and retail mini-tower. The answer seems to be happily no. The delay has to do with a partial stop-work order issued by the Buildings Dept. on Aug. 3 over lack of a sidewalk shed at ground level. The order forbade any work above 40 feet. But the situation was a bit more complicated than most, as the Parks Dept. was also drawn into discussions. It's all been worked out, says CB principal Charles Blaichman; a new shed will be installed this week and that should lift the stop-work order, he said. He said the façade glass, which is now in storage, should start going up after a few more weeks of steel and concrete work. Two of the project's 10 office floors were already leased to Helmut Lang. Newmark Knight Frank's Brian Waterman, the office leasing agent, said a "hard" deal for two more floors is in place for a tenant he wouldn't identify, and a lease is out for another floor. __________________ New York Observer http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/...5b4394c2_b.jpg |
9/13, a walk from the southern terminus to the northern:
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Turning an old elevated ROW into a walkable area is simply genius.
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Looks amazing... Soo, are the rail lines going or staying on it... I thought I saw in an earlier post on this thread that they were removing them but in the pics it looks like they're still there... I'm usually against picking up rails :haha: but overall looks great.
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http://curbed.com/archives/2009/10/1..._explosion.php
HL23 Adds Metal to Glass, Resulting in Minor Brain Explosion http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...5d3c84e5_o.jpg Monday, October 12, 2009, by Pete When we got a first peek of the molded metal panels planned for avant-garde architect Neil Denari's HL23 in West Chelsea we were warned by the NMDA crew that the mock-ups weren't a true visual representation of what would rise above the High Line. Now there is glass as well as flashy sheets of stainless going up at West 23rd Street and close inspection shows some subtle changes. In the mock-up each panel had the same swoopy indent at dead center, but now the panels are varied, with the indents off-set and moving across the panels, giving the east face a jolt of energy. The inset side windows appear pretty much the same, but look like they've been set a bit deeper into the metal facade. One thing we hadn't paid much attention to before is how intimately the lordly HL23 meets the High Line down below. Old maps and photos of the High Line show a little spur on the west side of the tracks running from West 21st Street up to and just beyond West 23rd Street, ending right at the front door of HL23. Some plans for Phase II of the elevated park, set to open about one year from now, show a glassed-in elevator rising to meet that spur on the sidewalk where HL23, the High Line and West 23rd Street come together. Up above the rails a big tilted expanse of fritted glass looms over what is designed to be a major entry point to the High Line. That could make life interesting for the folks who take up residence in the full floor condos down low. And, depending on what goes on inside HL23, it could be a load of fun for High Liners, too. And what to make of the business side of the building? HL23 isn't being built just for our gawking, after all. StreetEasy reports four units in contract, and get a load of this. A new listing for an $18 million penthouse triplex recently popped up on the market. An observant Curbed tipster writes: I've been watching 515 W 23rd since it broke ground... and now it seems like the builder decided to totally re-arrange the top 3 floors and create a Triplex Penthouse… for just $18,000,000. Originally the plans called for a duplex penthouse only, and a full-floor residence below that one. Wonder why they decided to go this route instead of sticking with their original plan? Because these days luxury is out but super luxury is in! Plus, there's still time to separate/divide as buyers see fit. Holler at it, Kanye. http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...b0edb378_o.jpg http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...55369e3c_o.jpg Render showing HL23 overhanging the High Line. http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...fefcb9a0_o.jpg The same, only, you know, REAL. http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...098c0e49_o.jpg Looking north from the High Line at West 20th Street to the newly-glassed HL23. http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...14893447_o.jpg http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...e933b1d7_o.jpg http://cdn3.curbednetwork.com/cache/...a2f03fb0_o.jpg |
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ar...tml?ref=design
Whitney Advances Plans for Museum Near the High Line http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/.../Museum500.jpg By CAROL VOGEL October 11, 2009 Three years after reaching a tentative agreement with the city, the Whitney Museum of American Art is forging ahead with plans to build a second museum at the entrance to the High Line, the abandoned elevated railway line that has recently been transformed into a public park. The museum signed a contract last month with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to buy the city-owned site at Washington and Gansevoort Streets, in the meatpacking district, for $18 million. That is about half the appraised value of the property, a sign of the city’s interest in drawing visitors to the area. According to the final agreement, the Whitney has up to four years to close on the purchase of the land and five years to begin construction of the building, designed by Renzo Piano. The museum will make nonrefundable monthly payments of $50,000 to the city until the closing date, which has not been determined. These payments will be credited toward the purchase price. (The balance is due at the closing.) The signed contract comes three years after the Dia Art Foundation scrapped its plans to open a museum next to the High Line entrance. That’s when the Whitney stepped in and reached a conditional agreement to take over the space. Since then the economy has taken a toll. In the spring the Whitney laid off eight employees, or 4 percent of its work force, and froze the salaries of senior staff members. In addition, the operating budget was reduced by about 10 percent. Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s director, said the money for the project would come from capital funds, not the operating budget. “The two are separate,” he explained. For decades the Whitney had tried to expand its landmark home — the 1966 Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue and 75th Street — but because of cost considerations the museum abandoned those plans and focused on a satellite downtown. A second museum is critical to the future of the institution, Mr. Weinberg said, adding: “This is the only way we can continue to justify building a collection. We simply don’t have enough space to show our holdings. And since at least 60 percent of the art we acquire comes through gifts, it becomes more difficult to ask people to donate works if we cannot show them.” Most of the Breuer space is devoted to special exhibitions, Mr. Weinberg said, with only about a quarter of the building left to display art from the permanent collection, one of the foremost holdings of 20th-century American art. “I’d like it to be 50-50,” he said. “You hear people say they are going to the Whitney to see a show, but you rarely hear someone say they are going to the Whitney to see our collection.” The Breuer building is also a difficult space to maneuver. When the giant biennial closes, for instance, it takes three weeks to get the art out and install another show. “That’s just bad business,” Mr. Weinberg said. But in this economy, paying for the High Line site will be a challenge. In May the museum announced a fund-raising campaign of $680 million: $435 million for the new building and about $245 million for the endowment. While Mr. Weinberg would not say how much had been raised so far, other than “a very substantial amount,” he did say that “giving slowed last year, but since the summer things have picked up.” In addition to raising money from individuals and corporations, the Whitney plans to sell five town houses next to the Breuer building when the real estate market improves. The proceeds will be earmarked for the downtown site. The project would give the Whitney a six-floor museum more than twice the size of its Madison Avenue home. The satellite would include more than 50,000 square feet of galleries and about 15,000 square feet of outdoor exhibition space. The Whitney will also have right of first offer on another city-owned property, north of the downtown site, which is occupied by the Gansevoort Meat Market Cooperative. If the co-op decides not to renew its lease, which expires in 2014, the Whitney could entertain the possibility of expanding once again. “It’s bigger than our existing site,” Mr. Weinberg said, comparing the co-op’s space to that of the Whitney project. “And we would probably co-develop it with another institution.” For the city, the addition of a Whitney downtown is another magnet to draw people to an area it has worked hard to develop. “We think this is a great anchor to this cultural district,” said Seth Pinsky, president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. “It will provide a gateway to the High Line. The two are complementary.” A question remains, however, about how the Whitney can run two sites at once. Last year when Leonard A. Lauder, the museum’s chairman emeritus, gave $131 million through his foundation, he stipulated that the Whitney could not sell its Breuer building for an extended, but unspecified, period of time. Mr. Weinberg said that the museum was studying options to see how to make the two sites work programmatically and financially. Teaming up with another institution is one idea. “We’re exploring all sorts of possibilities,” Mr. Weinberg said. |
I finally had a chance to check out the High Line this weekend. It was done really well... very impressed. I'll post some pictures soon. Who was the the L/A firm that designed it?
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:previous: Field Operations, lead by James Corner was the landscape architect. Renfro Diller and Scirfidio (sp?) was the architect firm on the project.
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http://www.observer.com/2009/daily-t...ne-keeps-going
High Line Keeps Going http://www.observer.com/files/full/88373172.jpg By Reid Pillifant October 19, 2009 The full, 1.5-mile vision for the High Line Park inched one step closer to completion today, with the first concrete indication that the city will acquire the northern third of the elevated rail line. At a City Planning Commission meeting this afternoon, chair Amanda Burden said the commission is preparing the paperwork for the city to purchase the stretch--between 30th and 34th Streets and the spur over Tenth Avenue--all of which is currently owned by the rail company CSX. "We're thrilled," said Peter Mullan, the Vice President for Planning and Design for Friends of the High Line. "It's really the linchpin for saving the High Line at the railyards. It doesn't guarantee preservation but it's the first step towards that," he said. The acquisition would mean that any changes to the property would be decided through a public process--and what with the public adoration for the viaduct-turned-park, it would seem to be a considerable safeguard. Friends of the High Line had been pressuring the city to take control of the stretch for months, fearing that it might fall outside the public purview as the developer, Related Companies, finalized plans for the site. But Related has insisted all along that the High Line is in its plans, and Mr. Mullan praised their commitment after today's announcement. "Putting it in their plans gave a strong signal to the city that there was no reason not to move forward," Mr. Mullan said. The second stretch of the High Line is currently under construction, and is expected to open before the end of 2010. |
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Manhattan's shorter high rises are getting more European in style it seems.
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Just because its high quality adventurous modernism doesn't make it European. Modern architecture may be more embraced in Europe and accepted as mainstream, but that in no way makes modern architecture a European product or export.
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I think Manhattan is adopting a more European attitude towards the urban environment in general. Emphasis on pedestrian space and bike lanes has been exploding over the past few years and only more plans are in the works. The waterfront reclamation projects also suggest this new attitude, but then I think that if anywhere in the U.S. should set the bar for cutting-edge urbanism, it should be Manhattan. :cool:
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You know you've got a good park going when people start getting their marriage photos there. They picked this park over Central Park to get their photos done.
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