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Landscape Architects in NY Mag's - Reasons to Love New York

New York Magazine recently published its ‘Reasons to Love New York’ and in at No.33 was Because Times Square will never be finished and reported that
When the department of Transportation closed seven blocks of Broadway to cars this summer, New Yorkers were offered an object lesson in how profoundly urban space can be altered by [...]

Pier 11 back on table

Metro International reports
PHILADELPHIA. Redevelopment of a 1-acre pier shooting into the Delaware River has been touted as a change for the better at the mostly-ignored waterfront …….
“There is a lot of physical problems why [development has] been difficult to achieve in the past not the least is the highway,” said James Corner of design [...]

Dutch success in London – OKRA wins Croydon Competition

OKRA landscape architects have won the prestigious “International Urban Design Competition for Wellesley Road and Park Lane in Croydon” in London. Lead consultant OKRA participates in this project with Urhahn Urban Design, Peter Brett Associates, Karakusevic Carson Architects and Soundings. The ambition for Croydon is to transform the area, which counts 350.000 inhabitants, into [...]

After Years of Advocacy, Newly Renovated High Line Opens – NYTimes.com

NYTimes.com reports
Standing on a newly renovated stretch of an elevated promenade that was once a railway line for delivering cattle — surrounded by advocates, elected officials and architects who made the transformation happen
SOURCE: After Years of Advocacy, Newly Renovated High Line Opens – NYTimes.com
Design TeamJames Corner Field OperationsDiller Scofidio + RenfroFor the full design team [...]

$10 Million Gift for High Line Project – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com

NYTimes.com reports
“The media mogul Barry Diller and the fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg have made a $10 million challenge grant to the High Line, the former elevated railway along the Hudson River that is being converted into a landscaped walkway. “I fell in love with the project, with the place,” Ms. Von Furstenberg said in [...]

The High Line: New York’s newest park – Times Online

Paul Croughton of the Times Online reports
“New York’s most famous green space is about to become old news. In terms of public parkland, there’s a new kid on the block.
Twenty-two blocks, actually. New York’s latest development, the High Line, stretches 1.45 miles along Manhattan’s West Side, from Gansevoort Street, in the Meatpacking District, up through [...]