If
you are having trouble reading this FHL e-Newsletter, click
here.
|
|
 |
A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization |
|
|
| |
 |
|
|
FHL E-Mail Newsletter
July 26, 2004
4 TEAMS 4 VISIONS: AT CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE THROUGH AUGUST 14
Four
design visions for the High Line, each created by a different
team of world-renowned architects, landscape architects, engineers,
artists, and other professionals, are now on view at the Center
for Architecture until August 14. Admission is free. View
4 Teams 4 Visions invitation with team listings
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place (between Bleecker and Third Streets)
Monday - Friday, 9am - 8pm
Saturday, 11am - 5pm
www.aiany.org
One of the four teams will be selected later this summer to
create a master plan for the High Line's transformation into
public open space. The exhibition comes near the end of a team
selection process that began in March, 2004, jointly run by
Friends of the High Line and the City of New York. It's important
to note that FHL and the City will be selecting a design team,
not a final plan. The visions on display show the proposed
design approaches of each team, but the master plan itself
will be developed by the selected team starting this fall,
with many opportunities for the public to play an active role.
Updates about the design process and invitations to planning
sessions will be distributed via this e-mail newsletter.
[
BACK TO TOP ]
NOW ONLINE: 4 FINALIST MASTER PLAN APPROACHES
The design visions of the four finalist teams seeking to create the High
Line master plan can now be viewed online.
Special thanks go to Robert Greenhood, of Greenhood & Company, for the
technical expertise and services that have brought these amazing visions to
the widest possible audience.
View 4 Teams 4 Visions Master Plan Approaches
[ BACK
TO TOP ]
RECENT PRESS: COVERAGE OF FOUR FINALISTS
The
four finalists and their design approaches
to the High Line master plan, as well as
the July 14 summer benefit, received major
media attention in recent weeks, including
articles in the New
York Times, the New York Post,
Newsday, the New Yorker, Time
Out New York, the New York Sun, and
many other publications. The visions were
also featured on WABC TV, WNBC TV, Fox
5 News, NY1, and WNYC's Leonard Lopate
show.
Special thanks go to RF/Binder Partners
for media outreach for 4 Teams 4 Visions
and the larger High Line project; and to
Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler, Martha Carrozza,
Beth Amorosi, and Sara Bliss for helping
to publicize the July 14 summer benefit.
[
BACK TO TOP ]
TUESDAY
JULY 27: WEST SIDE OPEN SPACE BREAKFAST PANEL
You
are invited to attend a
breakfast and panel discussion on Tuesday, July 27, at the
Center for Architecture, about new and existing parks and
open spaces and their relationship to plans for redevelopment
on the far West Side and the proposed New York Sports and
Convention Center. Panelists include FHL's Robert Hammond;
Dan Biederman, Bryant Park Restoration Corporation; Kent
Barwick, Hon AIA NYC, Municipal Art Society; and Al Butzel,
Friends of Hudson River Park.
When: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Breakfast: 8:00am
Program: 8:30am
Where: Center for Architecture Lecture Hall
536 LaGuardia Place (between Bleecker & West 3rd Streets)
RSVP: rsvp@aiany.org or (212) 358-6111.
[ BACK TO TOP ]
THANKS TO BENEFIT AND EXHIBITION SUPPORTERS
The High Line project has enjoyed an exciting and productive month. Our
July 14 summer benefit drew sold-out crowds to cocktails at Diane von
Furstenberg Studio and dinner at Phillips de Pury & Company. Then, on July
15, a standing-room-only crowd filled the Center for Architecture for the
opening night panel discussion for 4 Teams 4 Visions, moderated by Kurt
Andersen. It was the biggest turnout that the Center for Architecture has
ever experienced at a programmed event.
Hundreds of generous individuals, organizations, and businesses made
this month such a spectacular one.
Special thanks for the July 14 benefit go to IAC/InterActiveCorp, title
sponsor; Con Edison, for lighting the High Line; Diane Von Furstenberg
Studio and Phillips de Pury & Company for their event spaces; Van Wyck and
Van Wyck, for making the event so beautiful; and all the generous benefit
guests for supporting this historic effort to create a great new public open
space on Manhattan's West Side.
Thanks for the 4 Teams 4 Visions exhibition and panel discussion at the
Center for Architecture go first and foremost to the four finalist teams
who've spent many months defining their design approaches to the High Line.
Only one team will be selected, but the creative visions of all the teams
have greatly expanded our understanding of the High Line and what is needed
to make it one of the world's most beautiful and intriguing public open
spaces.
Special thanks for the exhibition and panel discussion also go to AIA New
York Chapter and the Center for Architecture, for hosting the exhibition;
the American Express Company, exhibition sponsor; and panel moderator Kurt
Andersen.
[ BACK TO TOP ]
DONATE TO FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE
Though the future of the High Line looks much brighter now that the City of New York stands firmly behind efforts to create a great new public space on the structure, we still face many legal and financial challenges. By making an online donation, you will become part of an ever-growing group of supporters and will be invited to every major Friends of the High Line public event.
CLICK THE BUTTON! |
|
CLICK THE BUTTON! |
Click the DONATE button
above and fill in the secure form to donate online by check
or credit card (American Express, Discover, Mastercard
and Visa). Friends of the High Line uses PayPal,
which lets any individual or business with an e-mail address
securely make donations online.
[ BACK TO TOP ]
CONTACT
INFORMATION
430 West 14th Street, Suite 304
New York, NY 10014
(212) 206-9922
(212) 206-9118 fax
info@thehighline.org
http://www.thehighline.org
|
|
|
|
If
you would like to remove yourself from the FHL Newsletter, please
send an e-mail to:
$subst('email.unsub')
with
the word
REMOVE in the SUBJECT line |
|
