Cool Hip Urban Green Agritecture - The High Line

second class citizen · 04-05-2009, 10:35 AM

The High Line, 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 · 04-05-2009, 02:03 PM

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.

Cadaverous Pallor · 04-05-2009, 02:41 PM

Biotopes? I guess they can make up words.

Cool idea.

JWBear · 04-05-2009, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Biotopes? I guess they can make up words.

Cool idea.

They didn't.

Cadaverous Pallor · 04-06-2009, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

They didn't.

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 · 04-06-2009, 09:16 AM

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

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second class citizen Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 135	Cool Hip Urban Green Agritecture - The High Line The High Line, 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. __________________ An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them." - Andy Warhol
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second class citizen Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 135	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. __________________ An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them." - Andy Warhol
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Cadaverous Pallor ohhhh baby Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Parental Bliss Posts: 12,364	Biotopes? I guess they can make up words. Cool idea.
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Stan4dSteph Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Bay Area, CA Posts: 3,156	I'm going to have to schedule in a trip to head down to NYC and check this out.
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