December 2011
4 posts
The High Line: I'm a fan
After reading Rachel Wetzler’s distaste for the High Line, I spent last night chewing on it. An excellent moment when someone goes directly against the grain, however, I disagree. Am all for green space. The High Line was slated for demolition and the alternative would have been a huge loss for the city. Giuliani threatened to wipe it away and in its early days, “Friends of the High...
Thoughts on the High Line
objectivecorrelative:
(Rendering of the High Line, James Corner)
I was having a conversation with someone the other day at a book party and said that I didn’t like the High Line — that I thought there was something vaguely sinister about the whole thing, that it was too shiny, too wrapped in the rhetoric of good-living-through-design, that I found it disturbing in the same way I find New...
