Sentences with phrase «elevated park»

To prepare for such risks, the city is considering an innovative approach: creating higher ground in the form of elevated parks.

There's also the High Line, the city's elevated park which was built on a former rail trail that has become one of the city's main attractions.

This spot and its surroundings make a big impression, especially when looking at its infinity from a slightly elevated parking lot.

The event officially began the 15 - month construction phase of the $ 30 million project, scheduled to end in August, 2009 when the bridge will reopen as the world's longest elevated park in time to serve as the centerpiece of the state's Quadricentennial Celebration.

Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, Los Angeles - based artist Kathryn Andrews created two new site - specific sculptures that respond to two distinct locations on this unique elevated park on the West Side of Manhattan.

In 2014 the museum closed in order to move to its present location in the city's meatpacking district on Gansevoort Street and alongside the city's High Line elevated park.

Also this week, Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled designs for its first built project in Mexico and MDRV announced its plan to transform a Seoul overpass into a High Line - inspired elevated park.

Design firm Going East drew inspiration from the High Line, New York's vegetation - covered elevated park.

The Around View Monitor elevates your parking perspective, so you can see more clearly as you maneuver in even the tightest spaces.

The National Park Service is devoted to elevating Park Prescription programs to show the American public the numerous health and community benefits of increasing their time in nature.

When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile - and - a-half-long elevated park.

Audrey Matlock's condos are opening across from a planned Whitney expansion with new museum architecture and the High Line as elevated park, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (founded by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio).

In a vast panorama seen from above, Chelsea Winter with Elevated Park: New York High Line (Mass Moca # 41)(2006), writing complements the visual choppiness of the city, adding scumbled urban texture in snow, the NYC High Line elevated train track a river of white dividing the painting, a kind of narration of the city.

The New York gallery will be housed in a newly constructed building, spanning the city block from 24th to 23rd Street, designed collaboratively by architects Christian Wassmann and Markus Dochantschi, and will be constructed around the foundations of the High Line, New York's 1.45 miles of elevated park.

It then passes back into New Jersey in Bayonne, traveling up through Jersey City, before crossing underneath the Hudson River, entering Manhattan at Gansevoort and West Street (see map below)-- pretty much right at the end of The High Line elevated park and the site where the Whitney Museum's downtown expansion is already under construction — and where, nearby, there will be an underground storage vault for natural gas.

Toronto's CIBC Square, for instance, is a $ 2 - billion project that includes two soaring office towers, an elevated park and a new $ 102 - million bus terminal near Union Station.

The city of Albany is getting more than $ 3 million in state funding to turn a lightly traveled interstate ramp into an elevated park giving pedestrians and bicyclists access to the Hudson River.

Advocates say plans to create an elevated park connecting downtown Albany to the riverfront would alter the cityscape, giving an economic boost to three areas undergoing revitalization.

Burden herself initially expressed concerns that a large expansion over the High Line would block views of the sky from the elevated park, but seemed satisfied with the changes to the 10th Avenue office space.

Additionally, Jamestown is giving $ 12 million to Friends of the High Line, the non-profit responsible for the upkeep of the elevated park, as part of a city development program.

Doctoroff notes that City Hall also managed to overcome objections to the High Line by allowing some of those who owned land under the elevated park to sell their air rights to developers on nonadjoining properties.

In 2014 the Walkway waterfront elevator opened and has since provided a direct connection from the elevated park to the Hudson River shoreline, including Waryas Park and the new Upper Landing Park.

Even City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden voiced concerns about the impact of the project on the High Line, noting that it would likely block views of the sky from the elevated park.

Guests including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Rep. Charlie Rangel, and numerous other city and state officials, began arriving shortly before 5:30 p.m. for the New York - themed celebration inside the Highline Stages in West Chelsea, just steps from the elevated park, which Quinn has long championed.

The tweaking of genres — the prison - escape flick in Chicken Run; monster horror in Were - Rabbit — in ways that made fun of cinematic tropes while also rapturous embracing them has elevated Park's work way above the standard notion of «it's a cartoon, it's just for kids.»

Obstacle detection picked up on stopped traffic, yes, but also such threats to personal safety as a cloud of steam and an elevating parking structure gate (I had an unpleasant encounter with the automatic braking function with that one).

Examples from Rythm Master were featured in light - box displays in «Mastry,» the artist's retrospective (2015 - 2017); the series inspired «Above the Line,» a hand - painted mural installed along the High Line, the elevated park in New York City (2015 - 2016); and was the subject of an academic paper by art historian and curator Ellen Tani, delivered in 2016 at the Black Portraiture [s] III conference in Johannesburg.

Appropriately, the elevated park offers the best views of the print.

The lush green leaves and bright colors of the pots contrast with the neutral hues of the surrounding winter brush, acting as a reminder of the greenery that populates the elevated park in warmer months.

The sound is meant to be heard from the surrounding streets and elevated park, enticing passersby to discover the installation.

A scaled - up digital print of Katz's 2012 painting, Katherine and Elizabeth, which has never been shown publicly, will be installed on the North - facing wall of 95 Horatio Street, a residential building near 14th Street, owned by T.F. Cornerstone, at the southern end of The High Line, New York's 1.45 miles of elevated park.

Because it sits alongside the High Line, «the garden serves as a verdant extension to the elevated park and showcases outdoor artworks in a rich seasonal tapestry,» according to the landscape architects.

Gutierrez, then, is a good choice for the debut of RLWindow, a new project by Ryan Lee Gallery in which performances, videos, and images will be shown on The High Line through a window display directly adjacent to the elevated park.

Rent an elevated parking space in a prime location such as SoHo, buy a ladder (mountain climbing gear) to climb into a cargo van - camouflaged 100 sq ft live / work studio.

The High Line is currently reviewing proposals by 12 artists for two monumental installations that will be presented atop a new plinth in the elevated park.

More recently, scores of smaller galleries have been pushed out by rising rents and real estate developers eager to capitalize on the area just south of the Hudson Yards development and near the High Line, an elevated park built on a former railway line.

The High Line, the elevated park in New York City, is inaugurating a new site for public art commissions.

For the High Line, Andrews presents her first public art commission, responding to two contrasting aspects of the elevated park: its relationship to nearby billboards and to the natural landscape.

Running through all of the works was the path of the elevated park, like the spines of the various creatures that Williams invented.

Artist Josh Kline is the man hitting the start button, preparing a sculpture that Ms. Alemani, the director of the High Line's art program, has commissioned for her latest group show in the elevated park.

Thomas Demand has created a site - specific work in response to the unique environment of the elevated park.

For the High Line, Demand has created a site - specific work in response to the unique environment of the elevated park.

High Line - Inspired New Elevated Park Will Bring Green And Pedestrian - Friendly Infrastructure To Mexico City

Maximizing land value requires underground or elevated parking, which also is expensive, he notes.

Stroll through the elevated park along an old freight train line, featuring stunning views of the city and amazing landscape architecture with plants sprouting up through the tracks.