Manhattan's Hudson Yards This Morning
My son from Massachusetts was there.
www.treehugger.com/manhattan-getting-m-stairway-nowhere-4...
The scalable sculpture, provisionally dubbed "Vessel," is all stairs: 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings spread out across 154 interconnecting flights of circular staircases that ascend 150 feet — roughly 15 stories — into the sky above the Hudson Yards, previously a massive construction crater that's now the largest real estate development project in the history of the United States (and the largest in the Big Apple since Rockefeller Center, which was completed in 1939).
Resembling a sort of gargantuan lattice basket made from concrete and clad in a cooper-colored stainless steel skin, the 600-ton Vessel will serve as the vertiginous centerpiece of the skyscraper-laden Hudson Yards, towering above a densely planted 5-acre public plaza, Public Square and Gardens, designed by landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz.
Aptly referring to Vessel as a "stairway to nowhere" in 2016, the New York Times likened the top-heavy interactive sculpture to a jungle gym for Generation Selfie. Fair enough. However, when I looked at the decidedly futuristic design renderings, I saw the atrium staircases of Los Angeles' landmark Bradbury Building put on steroids and inserted into an M.C. Escher illustration. Or something like that.
I recommend reading:
www.treehugger.com/green-spaces-alleviate-loneliness-urba...
Manhattan's Hudson Yards This Morning
My son from Massachusetts was there.
www.treehugger.com/manhattan-getting-m-stairway-nowhere-4...
The scalable sculpture, provisionally dubbed "Vessel," is all stairs: 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings spread out across 154 interconnecting flights of circular staircases that ascend 150 feet — roughly 15 stories — into the sky above the Hudson Yards, previously a massive construction crater that's now the largest real estate development project in the history of the United States (and the largest in the Big Apple since Rockefeller Center, which was completed in 1939).
Resembling a sort of gargantuan lattice basket made from concrete and clad in a cooper-colored stainless steel skin, the 600-ton Vessel will serve as the vertiginous centerpiece of the skyscraper-laden Hudson Yards, towering above a densely planted 5-acre public plaza, Public Square and Gardens, designed by landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz.
Aptly referring to Vessel as a "stairway to nowhere" in 2016, the New York Times likened the top-heavy interactive sculpture to a jungle gym for Generation Selfie. Fair enough. However, when I looked at the decidedly futuristic design renderings, I saw the atrium staircases of Los Angeles' landmark Bradbury Building put on steroids and inserted into an M.C. Escher illustration. Or something like that.
I recommend reading:
www.treehugger.com/green-spaces-alleviate-loneliness-urba...