Comments on: high line, briefly

By: places at design observer - mammoth // building nothing out of something

places at design observer - mammoth // building nothing out of something — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:42:25 +0000

[...] by Van Valkenburgh’s office, including the TerraGRAM High Line scheme that I’ve previously mentioned my fondness for), and UrbanLab’s eco-boulevard proposal for Chicago, “Growing [...]

By: wunderkammer on the high line - mammoth // building nothing out of something

wunderkammer on the high line - mammoth // building nothing out of something — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:13:17 +0000

[...] Line, which approaches the High Line from a rather different perspective than the one I’ve tended to bring to it (bemoaning the loss of the landscape that had developed over time, etc.). A couple of nice [...]

By: rob

rob — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:35:35 +0000

Definitely agree, Tommy — I read your post on the High Line a while back, and agreed with a lot of what you had to say. (There’s actually been a draft of a longer post about the High Line sitting around on my computer for a few weeks now that tied together some of my thoughts with what you said and John’s comments over at Archidose, but I don’t know that I’m going to bother pulling it together now.)

By: Tommy Manuel

Tommy Manuel — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:32:46 +0000

Rob, Glad I came across this post. I’m one of those contrarians when it comes to the high line, but wasn’t aware of TerraGRAM’s proposal until now. The idea of a wilderness amidst the urban is a polarizing concept, but surely didn’t gets its due consideration. Arguably, the high line park would never have been designed as it is without its former life, so in that respect it’s unique. Still, my opinion is it falls drastically short of being something it was already on the way to becoming.