Construction is progressing on the High Line ahead of an anticipated Stage 1 opening at the end of the year. This much publicised park is being developed on a disused elevated rail line at the western edge of Chelsea, snaking down to Gansevoort Street just enough for some so-cool-it-hurts Meatpackers kudos to rub off. It smashes through warehouses and stomps across streets on huge rivetted steel legs, a hulking grey Titanic beside Frank Gehry's slick white iceberg.
In operation for only thirty years the structure was saved from demolition by public pressure, in a targetted campaign lead by the group Friends of the High Line.
The project design team includes landscape architects Field Operations, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and planting designer Piet Oudolf. For more information visit the Friends of the High Line website at www.thehighline.org.
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