Jeff Koons’ Model ‘Train’ Proposed For The High Line
Famed pop-artist has proposed dangling a 70-foot long replica of a 1943 Baldwin steam locomotive above a segment of the park. Koons’s ‘Train’ will be fabricated from steel and carbon fiber, weighing in at some several tons, and will feature spinning wheels, a blowing horn, and puffing steam–all part of what the artist attributes to the “ephemeral energy that runs through the city every day.” (Architizer)
1 year ago
In Madrid’s Heart, Park Blooms Where a Freeway Once Blighted
More than six miles long, Madrid Río took over a neglected area of Spain’s capital, knitting together neighborhoods that had been severed from the city center. An article by Michael Kimmelman (New York Times)
1 year ago
2 years ago
A new Northerly Island for Chicago
Remember this image from 2003 with the destroyed runways of Meigs Field?
It’s been more than seven years of that controversial move by Mayor Daley and this is what that area of Chicago will look like in the future according to the design by Studio Gang and JJR:
More images available here and a public presentation is organized for this Thursday December 2 at 6:30 pm at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
2 years ago
“Build a Better Burb,” a design and planning competition sponsored by the Long Island Index with the Rauch Foundation, has named the team of PARK and NetLab as one of five winners. Will Prince of the architecture and planning studio PARK and Kazys Varnelis, the founder of NetLab, collaborated on the winning proposal “Long Division,” a regional strategy that promotes both responsible growth and planned contraction.
Congrats Will and Kazys!!!!
2 years ago
Ghostly LEDs to Electrify Madison Square Park
On October 21, Madison Square Park will unveil a pair of light installations by the engineer-turned-artist Jim Campbell. The larger of the two,Scattered Light, will cover the oval lawn in a nearly 2,000 floating LEDs programmed to flash human silhouettes that’ll look like alien-phantoms creeping through intergalactic dust. (Fast Company)
2 years ago
Urban parks take over downtown freeways
Cities are removing the concrete barriers that freeways form through their downtowns — not by tearing them down but by shrouding them in greenery and turning them into parks and pedestrian-friendly developments. This gray-to-green metamorphosis is underway or under consideration in major cities seeking ways to revive sections of their downtowns from Los Angeles and Dallas to St. Louis and Cincinnati. (USA Today via Archinect)
3 years ago
high line opens!!
The High Line in New York, designed by Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opened today after 10 years in the making. Congratulations!
If you are in NYC or planning a visit to the city, don’t miss the opportunity of experiencing this new public space.
3 years ago
