Photocopies Create Promenade
#28. Photocopies Create Promenade
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High Line Series, 2000. Canadian Centre for Architecture Collection, Montréal. © Joel Sternfeld
Friends of the High Line was founded in 1999 to coordinate efforts to save a 2.3 km-long elevated railway in Southwestern Manhattan by turning it into a public park-promenade. The rail line had been abandoned in the 1980s and was covered in vegetation, producing a wild landscape a few metres above the pedestrians of New York City. A DIY publicity campaign to avoid demolition attracted local attention, including celebrities and local business groups; the campaign was successful in 2005, and an architectural competition to redesign the High Line was won in 2008 by the firm of Diller & Scofidio. Construction is currently underway.
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Can't wait to see the results!
For sure the idea is very cool: never enough "green" in our cities... but, I would consider the opportunity to implement public parkways without waiting infrastructures are dismissed. Here you can see our proposal for Milano elevated railway track: http://issuu.com/publicarchitecture-polimi/docs/binariozero-book__7.1mb_
I love the idea. It is making me think of Jules Verne meeting Fritz Lang meeting modern ecological thinking. And its beautiful.
nice share, great article, very usefull for us...thank you
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