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Indlæser... Designing the High Line: Gansevoort Street to 30th Street (udgave 2008)af Patrick; Friends of the High Line Hazari (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is a beautiful book celebrating the revival of the High Line on the west side of New York as a unique urban experience. This is a design volume, not actually a view of the finished High Line. This is ongoing and the southern part of this converted railway park is now open. This book was put together in 2008. The rail line was orignally conceived as a way to take a busy freight railroad away from street running. It opened in 1934. Unfortunately, the manufacturing that used to exist in this area has mostly disappeared. The last train ran on the northern section of the line in 1980 and sat mostly derelict for 30 years. The concept of the High Line as an urban park came to Joshua David and Robert Hammond in 1999. But by 2006, the project had caught the eye of a number of noteworthy New Yorkers, so design ensued.
Some sense of the difficulties the collaborators encountered in making the High Line safe, accessible, and compliant with building codes, yet also artistically distinguished, can be gathered from Designing the High Line, a preliminary account published more than a year before the first stretch opened.
The High Line was built in New York city in the 1930s as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan's largest industrial district. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980 and it was under threat of demolition when, in 1999, Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group was formed. Working in partnership with the City of New York, the organization has worked to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park. They held a competition to redesign this space for open public use and this book describes the winners' design ideas. It includes design renderings, maps, and photographs depicting the High Line from its construction in the 1930s through its current re-construction into New York City's new public space. When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. No library descriptions found. |
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In the walking tours I give of the High Line, I describe the design as a kit of parts that is consistent along most of its length and broken up by special "moments," such as the 10th Avenue Square and the 23rd Street Lawn. Not all of the special features envisioned by the landscape architects and architects were realized, so this book acts as a document of ambitions for the park as much as it is a blueprint for what was built. I'd love to see a an update or companion that would include the third section, but I'm guessing Phaidon's huge coffee table book on the High Line (which I don't have) would supplant such a notion. Eight years after Designing the High Line, the park is so popular and successful that only a big, expensive book will do. ( )