Thomas Heatherwick’s 150-foot-tall, honeycomb-shaped climbable public art installation at Hudson Yards is set to open for public climbing in March along with the complex’s Shops and Restaurants on March 15. Known for some time as “The Vessel,” the bronzed steel and concrete structure has no official title as of yet. — 6sqft
Thomas Heatherwick's highly anticipated bronzed steel and concrete structure will have its public debut on March 15th. Having been in the headlines for the past few months the project's most recent update lies in what the structure will be officially named. According to a source from 6sqft, the Vessel "was always a placeholder until the public experienced it. We're excited to have the public help us with a name."
According to The Hudson Yard's website, the structure has been named "New York's Staircase," a fitting name due to the 154 interconnecting flights of stairs - almost 2,500 individual steps—and 80 landings. Many have expressed their opinions on the project as a whole. Those who are in favor of the public, interactive landmark are excited about its completion while others have shown their contempt for the project overall.
Allowing the public to provide a name for the project should lead to exciting albeit interesting submission ideas.
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Stairway to Nowhere
the Great Turd
White Privelege
Larry Himmelman.
McArt for McUrbanism
mega folly
Tribulation For The Impaired
Accolades For Ableism
Latte Thunder
Tower of Babble
(I now see someone else referred to the Tower of Babel in a previous post.)
Exercise
The "Where's the elevator?"
WTF
low tech stair master
assisted suicide
that is going to be an issue for sure
"Steve"
super model ribs
le corset
Meatloaf Killer
aka the Heart Attack
aka Heather's Wick
aka this crappy development needs some visual interest
aka the Parking Structure
aka Disabled Design
“Darth Jeff”
Googling "Heatherwick" and "pine cone" already shows this project, is that the official name?
"Kanye 2020"
What'd this doodad cost?
Yet NYC still doesn't have functional elevators at every subway station so shit like this happens?
Young Woman Falls and Dies Trying To Carry Stroller Down Subway Stairs
WTF, humans. Why are we so awful?
we are not, they are.
It's all about the money, honey. Nothing else matters.
Who doesn't help a parent carrying a stroller down the stairs? What an awful bunch of people, everybody that just rushed passed this woman has blood on their hands.
+1 randomised. This is emblematic of typical New Yorkers that care about money, career and nothing else.
We can afford a global war machine with thousands of nuclear weapons on missiles, airplanes, and submarines but we can't afford basic, safe, reliable public transportation.
We can afford a global war machine with thousands of nuclear weapons on missiles, airplanes, and submarines but we can't afford basic, safe, reliable public transportation.
Cost ($150-200m—skip to the last sentence for the clincher):
"This project comes about at a time when many of New York’s largest museums have been struggling financially. The Met has attempted to plug a budget shortfall by laying off staff and offering buyouts. Meanwhile, the city’s smaller nonprofits continue to chug along, hosting fundraisers and making ends meet. Their budgets are modest: Artists Space’s is around $1.9 million (for the fiscal year ending 2014), SculptureCenter $1.4 million (2014), White Columns $920,000 (2014), and the Studio Museum in Harlem $6.4 million (2015). The Public Art Fund spent $5.4 million in the fiscal year ending 2015, staging a fairly impressive array of artworks all around town. The current price tag for Heatherwick’s sculpture, invested with a 4 percent annual return could keep the Public Art Fund afloat in perpetuity, showing literally thousands of artworks to the delight of New Yorkers and the great people who visit our city."
http://www.artnews.com/2016/09...
I hate this thing more the more I look at it. It is vapid, pointless, and ugly. I don't think there's even a good view once you get to the top.
The last sentence says it all: "All of that said, Heatherwick’s Vessel, grandiose, bombastic, and ultimately hollow, is at least perfectly named: it is a vessel for consumerism, for empty showmanship, and for all of the shallowness and superficiality that real art aims to counteract." The same could be said for a lot of architecture now.
Maybe they should name it "Snark Bait"
“Museum of Non-Accessibility and Exclusion”
“Trash” is another good title.
Wait a sec ... how did this get by ADA requirements?
probably it's not classified as a building, but "interactive public art", bullshit can get you places....
The accessibility issue is curious in this case. Accessibility to what? We build ramps and elevators so the disabled can go to museums, restaurants, their homes, etc. Here there's nothing to access, no place for them or an elevator to go. I fear, however, the thing will be popular, that it will deluge social media, so they will be excluded.
Here are some more public stairs, Ben Shahn's The Red Stairway, 1944, a comment on civilization at the time.
How about calling it THE INCLINE or just INCLINE. Lots of uses for advertising like b INCLINEd or RU INCLINEd? If you are afraid of heights you might be unINCLINEd. Lots of possibilities with the name THE INCLINE or just INCLINE.
Guglielmo Belli - Upper West Side
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