Designing the High Line: Gansevoort Street to 30th Street
- By: Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Price: $30
- More Info: thehighline.org
The High Line reclamation and landscape project has captivated us for the last decade with its psychedelic vision of a 21st-century hanging garden. Transforming an abandoned railway viaduct into Manhattan’s newest public park, the High Line brings nature—from the Chelsea Grasslands to a two-level sundeck and “rail preserve” to a wildflower field between 28th and 29th Streets—to cosmopolitan life.
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