Can Landscape Design Humanize New York’s Hudson Yards?
Landscape architect Thomas Woltz is lending a human scale to the Manhattan megadevelopment.
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Hudson Yards, the New York City development that opened to the public on March 15, is a colossus. Its construction began in 2012 and is ongoing; what’s accessible now is raised above a train yard on a steel and concrete platform weighing more than 35,000 tons. In time, a second platform will join the existing one for a total of 28 lifted acres.
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