Designing the High Line : Gansevoort Street to 30th Street / Friends of the High Line, field operations Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Main entry:

Friends of the High Line, author.

Title & Author:

Designing the High Line : Gansevoort Street to 30th Street / Friends of the High Line, field operations Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Friends of the High Line, 2008.
©2008

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Description of the High Line and winners of the design ideas for the High Line's reuse as a public open space in the open, international ideas competition "Designing the High Line" sponsored by the non-profit Friends of the High Line
Introduction -- Design: concept -- Design: Section 1 -- Design : Section 2 -- Detail development -- Section3: Rail yards.
Text in English.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780615211916 (paperback)
0615211917 (paperback)

Subject:

Railroads, Elevated Recreational use New York (State) New York Planning.
Viaducts Recreational use New York (State) New York Planning.
Architecture Competitions New York (State) New York.
Chemins de fer aériens Utilisation pour les loisirs New York (État) New York Planification.
Viaducs Utilisation pour les loisirs New York (État) New York Planification.
Architecture Concours New York (État) New York.
Architecture Competitions
Buildings
Hochbahn
Gewerbegebiet
Park
Umgestaltung
Bürgerinitiative
Trasse
Nutzungsänderung
High Line (New York, N.Y. : Viaduct)
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
High Line (New York, N.Y. : Viaduc)
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York High Line (Viaduct)
New York- Manhattan

Added entries:

Friends of the High Line.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, architect.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263692
Call No.: BIB 194930
Status: Available

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