5100 x 3414 px | 43,2 x 28,9 cm | 17 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
14 giugno 2009
Ubicazione:
High Line elevated park, Chelsea neighborhood district, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Altre informazioni:
The High Line park is built on top of the roadbed of an elevated freight rail structure. In 1934 this structure opened to trains. It ran from 34th Street to St. John’s Park Terminal, at Spring Street. A radical idea at the time, it was designed to go through the center of blocks, rather than over the avenue, to avoid creating the negative conditions associated with elevated subways. It connected directly to factories and warehouses, allowing trains to roll right inside buildings. Milk, meat, produce, and raw and manufactured goods were delivered without causing street-level traffic, & at the same time managing to avoid the accidents occurring between freight trains and street-level traffic that had christened 10th Avenue as Death Avenue. In 1980 the last train ran on the High Line pulling three carloads of frozen turkeys. The design & plantings of the park are based on the environment that grew naturally on the old roadbed when trains stopped running on it, although from a design standpoint it’s much more subtle than that. The selected design team was led by James Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an architecture firm, and experts in horticulture, engineering, security, maintenance, public art, and other disciplines.
