出處
一個偉大公園的誕生 --- Highline Park in NYC
2008年後紐約的西邊將有一個由廢高架鐵道(highline)轉變而成, 1.45哩長, 18到30呎高的"空中花園". 整個構想是根據巴黎的"植物步道"(La promenade plantée)而來.
當你開車進village或tribecca吃飯, 從 west side highway 轉進meat packing district時, 第一個映入你眼簾的是一個龐然大物般的廢棄高架橋. 你必須穿過它下面才能進到佈滿cobble stone,超hip的"肉品市場". 這個蟾蜍般的廢鐵道即將變成王子般的公園.
在19世紀中葉第10大道曾被稱為"Death Avenue", 因為從上州運牛奶肉類及其他貨品進紐約市的火車在第10大道奔馳而與擁擠的行人及馬車造成的許多意外. 於是在約1930年紐約州花了相當今天20億美元的錢將曼哈頓西邊的火車高架及地下化, 其中tribecca到34街為高架. 不幸的自從50年代以後美國貨運漸漸以公路卡車為主, 這段鐵路也漸不受歡迎. 它在80年代送走了最後一般火車後就走入了歷史.
More about Higline Park
Highline整個設計非常有未來感(futuristic), 請看 多媒體設計概念
另外Highline的植物景觀設計請來了荷蘭的Piet Oudolf來設計. Planting Design,公園的6個section各有主題. 超酷, 必看!
New Midtown West
以下摘自New York Magazine
(1.) Javits Center
(2.) West Side Rail Yards
(3.) Moynihan Station
David Childs/SOM, late 2010.
Moynihan Station, named for its original champion, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is New York’s chance to right the shocking wrong of the demolition of the first Penn Station. Luckily, McKim Mead & White’s Farley Post Office, just across Eighth Avenue, became available, giving New York both a second Beaux-Arts station and the first 21st-century one. Childs’s “potato chip” transit hall is gone—too expensive—and with it an asymmetric, punky spirit. The exterior of the station will be restored to its original glory (netting hundreds of thousands in preservation tax breaks), while the interior will be illuminated by a pair of subtly high-tech parabolic skylights. Thirty new entrances and exits will spread the commuter traffic to Ninth Avenue, with side-street entrances as well as an underground tunnel to Penn Station.
(4.) High Line
Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, phase one, 2008; phase two, 2009.
“There’s this magic to this hidden, self-seeded emergent landscape,” says Field Operations principal James Corner. “It is not designed, it is wild, so the challenge is how do we get a pathway up there that people can walk on but not turn it into a rose garden or a topiary garden or a manicured lawn.” The High Line today has microclimates—protected portions where close-by buildings and billboards have allowed tallish trees to grow, and also bare, windy patches of dried-out lawn where the line is open to the elements. The High Line of the future will have patches of wild grasses, narrow flowering meadows, and thickets of tough trees. The goal is to make the path as varied as possible, so that, despite its total linearity, one can get a little bit lost.
(5.) Chelsea Arts Tower
Kosser and Garry Architects, Gluckman Mayner Architects, HOK, fall 2006.
(6.) Vesta 24
Garrett Gourlay Architects and James D’Auria Associates, April 2006.
(7.) Marianne Boesky Gallery
Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, September 2006.
(8.) West 23rd Street building
Neil M. Denari Architects, Marc Rosenbaum, Gruzen Samton, 2008.
(9.) General Theological Seminary Tower
The Polshek Partnership, no completion date.
(10.) High Line 519
ROY Co., late 2006.
(11.) West 19th Street building
Ateliers Jean Nouvel, no completion date.
(12.) IAC Headquarters
Gehry Partners, March 2007.
(13.) 516 West 19th Street
Selldorf Architects, 2008.
(14.) The Caledonia
Handel Architects, 2008.
(15.) Chelsea Market Residence
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, no completion date.
(16.) The Standard, NY
The Polshek Partnership, 2007. High Line Club
Developers Charles Blaichman and André Balazs, no completion date.
(17.) Pier 57
Michel De Fournier and Gensler, no completion date.
(18.) Dia High Line
Roger Duffy/SOM, 2008.