Cool Hip Urban Green Agritecture - The High Line

[second class citizen]

The High Line (http://www.dillerscofidio.com/), a new 1.5 mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railway stretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan. Through a strategy of agri-tecture - part agriculture, part architecture - the High Line surface is constructed of units of paving and planting with variant gradients from 100% paving to 100% soft, richly vegetated biotopes, encompassing a variety of microclimates - from Mossland to Tall Meadow, Wetland to Woodland Thicket, Mixed Perrenial Meadow to Young Woodland.

[second class citizen]

The High Line is being brought to you by the same people who brought you, er, rather brought the Swiss, the Blur Building (or Cloud Building), a hotel set inside an artificial cloud. The firm is Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. (http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10185)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Biotopes? I guess they can make up words. :)

Cool idea.

[JWBear]

Biotopes? I guess they can make up words. :)

Cool idea.

They didn't. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotope)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

They didn't. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotope)Yeah, I figured it was real, I just hadn't heard it, so I didn't look it up to preserve the supposed integrity of my post.

[Stan4dSteph]

I'm going to have to schedule in a trip to head down to NYC and check this out.