When the freight trains stopped going into Manhatten in 1980's, the tracks began to decay. There were plans to demolish them and build tower blocks however officials decided that an idea bought to them by Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and James Corner was a much more inventive idea. A park in the sky. The idea is that visitors will be able to read the historical layers of the piece of land as there will be elements of the railway tracks encorporated into the unusual landscape. The team have created many inspirational pieces of architecture including buildings based on ribbon and ones that seem to breathe steam! Their website is worth a visit: http://www.dillerscofidio.com/
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This project looks pretty interesting and technically not so secret, the other projects on there site look amazing, especially the Institute of Contemporary Art, if i had some of those sea views in lectures i think i would be soewhat distracted...but great varied work by the company and an interesting project to make use of potential derelict space.
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