Hudson Yards is willing multi-use Urban Design into Reality in NYC.
When we think of New York city great buildings and iconic streetscapes spring to mind readily, the flat iron building, central park, the highline to name a couple. So what is happening currently in New York in terms of Urban Design. Well, look no further than a new development in the Hudson Yards. It is to be the single 'largest private real estate development in US history'. That being the case it is as relevant as any planners ideas of how NYC should evolve and is a contemporary snap shot of what urban design means to development, at least in the US.
The development will include 4000 homes, a 200 room hotel, and 14 acres of public spaces such as public gardens and squares as well as copious amounts of cutting edge architecture courtesy of architects such as Diller Scofidio + Renfo in collaboration with Rockwell Group.
The first half of the project, the eastern Hudson Yards, is due to be completed in 2018 completion, then it will be the western Hudson Yards due to be finished and leased by 2025 with a completion date of 2025. Unlike older developments that focussed on single uses such as the Rockefeller Center and Times Square, Hudson Yards is more about blending a number of things at once, namely- commercial, retail, public space, and residential.
According to Jay Cross, President of Related Hudson Yards, the development 'will be the new center of New York'. With 5 million workers living within a 40-minute of commute of Hudson Yards its easy to see why he is so enthusiastic 'We will be the new center of New York, the new heart of New York, but we'll be known for a little of everything and all of everything," Having many uses rolled into one development will give it its dynamism and according to Cross. 'Every New Yorker will have a reason to go to Hudson Yards, and every New Yorker will love Hudson Yards. That's got to be the goal.'
Whether we share Cross's enthusiasm or not, this development will in time give urban designers new data on multiuse developments and their success. Time will tell, I cant wait to see it completed.
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Diller Scofidio's design work
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