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"A straight walkway, running alongside the railroad tracks, is surrounded by a landscape of native species that once grew spontaneously on the High Line, interspersed with new species that ensure bloom throughout the growing season." (Design by Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Courtesy of the City of New York.)
It's been three years since we've gotten a look at what the High Line park - currently under construction on what was once an overgrown elevated railway - will look like. Today the Friends of the High Line, who've come a long way in their crusade to turn the disused tracks into an easily accessible urban oasis, joined Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe to unveil the ambitious design renderings.
Friends of the High Line co-founder Robert Hammond promises that Section 1 of the High Line, stretching from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, will be open to the public by the end of the year. The lusher Section 2, which runs from 20th Street to 30th Street, won't be complete until sometime in 2009. For more High Line images, here's a juicy slide show and a design video from Friends of the High Line. And a new book, Designing the High Line, was distributed at today's press conference; it contains some unreleased renderings of the stunning 18th Street Plaza, which Curbed has dutifully scanned.
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I'm excited!
Is that the same digital presentation program that they use for the gay porn images? Expecting huge marines with bulging pecs to be hiding among the weeds. I wish... but it's not going to happen even if the designers are references the boardwalk cruising area of the Pines because the entrances are going to be locked up at night. Sorry, but knock the thing down. Just knock it down. Or leave it intact. It was about the transformation of industrial era into a paradise through neglect. It was about secrecy and hidden space. It was about God and nature. Now it's about how much happier our bosses are in Fire Island but here's a soupcon, a petite crumb of what night enjoy in the real estate jihadist paradise.
I like the look. Unfortunately the rails, if preserved, will not be shiny, they rust and become brown.
It all looks so gay and celebratory. Will it be open late at night?
Hopefully bikers, skaters, skateboarders, strollers etc. wont be allowed on the highline to spoil the effect. Also no balloons please.
Oops I forgot to mention that I really liked the lead in rendering showing the dude on the right nodding out after taking his medication. Is there a follow up story about what it was, a methadone OD or a HIV cocktail gone awry?
it's like the best photoshopdisasters gallery ever.
It looks very cluttered. When I was up there years ago, it felt a lot roomier. You could walk anywhere, not just on some central walkway. Unless they put up surveillance cameras, the same spots that became plastered with graffiti will revert to their previous state.
It is a lovely design, shame it will only be used for the new Sims game.
The High Line is designed as a 'slow' space to escape the fast pace below. No bikes, scooters, skates, etc. will be allowed.
I can't wait.
I heard they will have a recorded speaker system reminding all visitors to, "Stay to the right please. All walkers are reminded to not touch or pick the flowers. DO NOT LEAVE THE PATHWAY!"
Is the Highline going to have the same set of assholes that patrol the HRP? AKA known as the Parks Department patrol dumb fucks? Talk about a bunch of racist shit heads.
Snoopy, it's funny you say that. I noticed that today while sitting at Pier 1 Cafe. What's up with their attitudes!
I'm psyched for this though. Great use of space. I hope when it comes to fruition that it actually looks like that.
Hopefully the Highline will be as gracious and inviting as the renderings appear. And hopefully the park will be patrolled by others other than the New York Parks Department A-A and other immigrants.
They have a chip on their shoulder bigger than any KKK person I know. Thank god they don't arm those pieces of crap.
It's just too intimate and precious for a wasted out industrial site. It offers too much of the same CPW terrace crap that says "private enclave". I like the ruins as they are. Sorry, Design Fucks.
The whole concept of this elevated park through Chelsea is bullshit. How many people are really going to go up there and stroll? Unless you are of the ... persuasion. I'm not going to say it because others will say I'm anti-fag or lesbian. But really, who's going to use that esplanade?
Waste of money. Its just a perk-trick to justify the real estate rape in the area.
Let's get that Arlene woman from Gramercy Park to handle the gates at the Highline. She'll keep the riff-raff out.
Looks like a back alley in (the) Bronx.
I feel like I've been hearing about this forever. I'll believe it when I see it.
It's sort of sad that a real opportunity was missed: part of the brief for the development of the West Side Yards was to integrate the Highline, which wraps around the site. Another part of the West Side Yards development is the extension of the Seven Line from Times Square to the Yards, taking a swing to the South. If only someone had foreseen (before the Highline was given over to Parks), they could have reused it for its original purpose, and brought the Seven down into the West Village. Preservation is nice; adaptive reuse is nicer; serving the original intent is better still.