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Today, nearly five million visitors a year visit the High Line. Public and received a most exuberant reception. The first segment of the new High Line Park opened to the Oversized beds with crisp cotton linens provide a perfect night’s sleep, and plush robes invite. As our guest you’ll enjoy staying in our light-filled rooms featuring beautiful hardwood floors and one-of-a-kind locally sourced furniture. In 2008, Friends of the High Line accomplished what had seemed very unlikely a decade before. Each of The High Line Hotel’s 60 rooms evokes a bygone era of a graciously decorated guesthouse. Individually laid concrete planks allow plants to grow up through the gaps, echoing the wild character of the trestle during its period of postindustrial ruin.

The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf.

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Piet Oudolf, responsible for the new High Line’s plantings, incorporated grasses and wildflowers that had adapted to the trestle’s conditions into his plans.Īrchitects Diller Scofidio & Renfro added what they described as “part architecture and part agriculture.” They defined a series of discrete planting areas, gathering spaces, and walkways along the trestle’s path. The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Less-than-romantic past-the antithesis of Central Park with its ponds and artificially created sheep's meadow.Ī design team led by James Corner, drawn by the High Line’s postindustrial railroad character, wanted to create a secret, magic garden for visitors to discover when they ascended the stairs from the street. Working in partnership) selected a multidisciplinary design team to create a park that would embrace the buildings and city vistas around it and its own

Friends of the High Line and the City of New York (now The High Line opened to the public in June 2009.A design competition was held, and by 2006, support, initial plans, and funding were in place. The program includes identification signage, maps and wayfinding. Once the city ultimately approved the plan to revitalize and reuse the High Line as a pedestrian park and promenade, Pentagram was invited to work with the selected landscape architecture firm, James Corner Field Operations, to design the signage and environmental graphics for the structure. Other projects have included the design of “Reclaiming the High Line,” a book about the history and potential for the structure, and “Designing the High Line,” an exhibition at Grand Central Station that displayed over 700 architectural proposals for the redevelopment. The designers created a simple, unique and highly recognizable identity for the group that subsequently became the logo for the park itself. These parks are the perfect place to play for kids and kids at heart alike. Livability / Aug5 Parks That Will Make You Want to Move.

Pentagram has been the graphic consultant for Friends of the High Line since the organization began its campaign, designing the group’s identity and various fundraising and promotional pieces to help gain support for the initiative. The High Line Network is a group of infrastructure reuse projectsand the people who are helping them come to life. The entrance to the High Line from this area is via a ramp, which is an advantage for people in wheelchairs or pushing a stroller.

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The structure was saved from demolition by Friends of the High Line, a community based non-profit organization that advocated for the preservation and reuse of the structure as a pedestrian promenade. Before entering the High Line park, take advantage of the fact that you are in the hippest emerging neighborhood of Manhattan, full of stores, luxury skyscrapers and trendy restaurants. Originally built for freight trains in the 1930s, the High Line is an elevated rail structure on Manhattan’s West Side that has been turned into the city’s most popular new park.