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The High Line Rises in New York

Transformed Green Public Space   |   The Standard Hotel   |   10th Avenue View

The Standard Hotel

The Standard Hotel sits above the recently completed High Line Park in New York. The glass-walled hotel has played host to several exhibitionists, exposing themselves to people on the High Line.



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All the Park's A Stage
Article | NEW YORK Construction can have unintended consequences. Build a park on an old elevated railway train track in Manhattan, and a hotel that straddles that park, and New Yorkers turn the whole thing into a stage.
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