![]() ![]() It was designed so that it would give people a feeling of coming across a secret magic garden in the sky, a place to escape the concrete and buildings. Theatrical views and other vistas to the sky were of key concept for the Highline. The Highline was to become this green ribbon, juxtaposed along the city grid. Corner introduced the idea to propagate simple experiences such as people watching and voyeurism, allowing people to be free to sit together and experience one another amongst an urban bewildered environment. The idea of “How to dramatize the experience?” was solution to the problem. As usual, blue, yellow and red predominate- In addition, you will also find icons that you can relate to your timeline. You choose Their designs are varied, so you can select your own one depending on the purpose: school, business, marketing. ![]() There already had been the expression of nature, but using creative means to open the space to public passage while provide the raised level feeling of experience NYC in an open air environment remained. We have added a lot of different timelines: curved, straight, resembling a road, hand-drawn, formal. The systematic challenges of infrastructure repair and management of the existing ecosystem remained. James Corner has said that the Highline changed the way the thought of landscape once again. ![]() The 1.5 mile long piece of elevated rail was in disrepair and swept aside as a forgotten memory of NYC before a photographer brought to the light, the self seeding plant ecosystem that took over. The elevated park in NYC was built atop of the derelict and crumbling infrastructure of a formal elevated train that would transport passengers above the city streets on the east side of Manhattan. The unarguably most well known project by JCFO is The Highline in NYC. ![]()
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