In a few weeks, construction begins on New York’s largest development ever. Hudson Yards is handsome, ambitious, and potentially full of life. Should we care that it’s also a giant slab of private property?
— nymag.com
“We went out and selected great architects and then created a whole five-acre plaza,” Ross says. “People will have never seen such a world-class landscaping project. I can’t tell you what that plaza will look like, but what I visualize is a modern-day Trevi Fountain. It’s going to be classical and unique.”
5 acre plaza that supposed to be the Trevi fountain...except that they don't know what it looks like?! Oh boy, this should be good.
Also, that observation deck looks like a giant diving board. It should prove to be real tantalizing for base jumpers and suicidists.
Yo!
Oct 9, 12 1:30 pm ·
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...the liveliness engine...
...Eataly on steroids...
...the culture shed...
Where do people come up with this stuff? But really, the best is at the end of the article:
"Childs hopes that his client’s insistence on premium-brand design won’t make Hudson Yards just the province of privilege. “We want this project to be laced through with public streets, so that everyone has ownershipof it, whether you’re arriving in your $100,000 limo or pushing a shopping cart full of your belongings.”
The plans include drop-off lanes, so the limos are taken care of. But if the shopping-cart pushers, buskers, protesters, skateboarders, and bongo players start feeling too welcome at Hudson Yards, Related’s security guards will have a ready-made argument to get them to disperse: This is private property."
Occupy Hudson Yards! Is it too soon? Or already too late, yo?
Oct 9, 12 2:15 pm ·
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That would be New York Magazine not the New Yorker
Thanks, fixed.
“We went out and selected great architects and then created a whole five-acre plaza,” Ross says. “People will have never seen such a world-class landscaping project. I can’t tell you what that plaza will look like, but what I visualize is a modern-day Trevi Fountain. It’s going to be classical and unique.”
5 acre plaza that supposed to be the Trevi fountain...except that they don't know what it looks like?! Oh boy, this should be good.
Also, that observation deck looks like a giant diving board. It should prove to be real tantalizing for base jumpers and suicidists.
Yo!
...the liveliness engine...
...Eataly on steroids...
...the culture shed...
Where do people come up with this stuff? But really, the best is at the end of the article:
"Childs hopes that his client’s insistence on premium-brand design won’t make Hudson Yards just the province of privilege. “We want this project to be laced through with public streets, so that everyone has ownership of it, whether you’re arriving in your $100,000 limo or pushing a shopping cart full of your belongings.”
The plans include drop-off lanes, so the limos are taken care of. But if the shopping-cart pushers, buskers, protesters, skateboarders, and bongo players start feeling too welcome at Hudson Yards, Related’s security guards will have a ready-made argument to get them to disperse: This is private property."
Occupy Hudson Yards! Is it too soon? Or already too late, yo?
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