New York High Line
In the early 1930s, the New York Central Railroad simply known as New York Central (NYC), began their new project constructions called “The High Line”. This project was designed to deliver freight directly from buildings along its tracks, so the freight could loaded and unloaded inside the factories, but when interstate trucking rise in 1950 that railway become unused.
In 1999, New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, finally approved legislation to knock it down. When Joshua David and Robert Hammond, a Chelsea Resident, heard that they decide to take an action and formed Friends of the Highline, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and reuse of the High Line. Friends of the High Line quickly received many support particularly from West Chelsea’s Artistic Community including actors Edward Norton, Kevin Bacon, Harvey Keitel, Glenn Close and designer Diane von Furstenberg.
New York High Line
Over the next few years Friends of the High Line take many steps which needed to secure the future of the High Line as a park and began to assemble a design team to lead the project. In 2004, the New York City Government committed $50 million to establish the proposed park and appointed Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and horticulturist Piet Oudulf are appointed to lead this this project.
New York High Line
On April 10, 2006, New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, Senator Hillary Clinton, Friends of the High Line and their celebrity supporters, presided over a groundbreaking ceremony, marking the beginning of construction on the High Line project, turning it into an elevated park. As elevated park which is inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of this postindustrial ruin, where nature has reclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure, the new park interprets its inheritance.
The first section of the elevated garden promenade (the southern section of the High Line, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street) is set to open on June 2009.
Rendered images courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
NEW YORK HIGH LINE SKY PARK
New York High Line
In the early 1930s, the New York Central Railroad simply known as New York Central (NYC), began their new project constructions called “The High Line”. This project was designed to deliver freight directly from buildings along its tracks, so the freight could loaded and unloaded inside the factories, but when interstate trucking rise in 1950 that railway become unused.
In 1999, New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, finally approved legislation to knock it down. When Joshua David and Robert Hammond, a Chelsea Resident, heard that they decide to take an action and formed Friends of the Highline, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and reuse of the High Line. Friends of the High Line quickly received many support particularly from West Chelsea’s Artistic Community including actors Edward Norton, Kevin Bacon, Harvey Keitel, Glenn Close and designer Diane von Furstenberg.
New York High Line
Over the next few years Friends of the High Line take many steps which needed to secure the future of the High Line as a park and began to assemble a design team to lead the project. In 2004, the New York City Government committed $50 million to establish the proposed park and appointed Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and horticulturist Piet Oudulf are appointed to lead this this project.
New York High Line
On April 10, 2006, New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, Senator Hillary Clinton, Friends of the High Line and their celebrity supporters, presided over a groundbreaking ceremony, marking the beginning of construction on the High Line project, turning it into an elevated park. As elevated park which is inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of this postindustrial ruin, where nature has reclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure, the new park interprets its inheritance.
The first section of the elevated garden promenade (the southern section of the High Line, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street) is set to open on June 2009.
Rendered images courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro