“Vessel” a new public landmark for the Hudson Yards in Manhattan

Vessel

Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group announced Heatherwick Studio’s design of Vessel, a new public landmark for the Hudson Yards development in Manhattan, New York.

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The more than five acres of Public Square and Gardens will be a great new gathering place for the city and will feature a public landmark by Heatherwick Studio, Vessel that welcomes the public to enter, climb and experience New York in a whole new way. See renders of Vessel:

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Rather than just be something to look at, Heatherwick Studio‘s design undertook the challenge of creating a landmark every inch of which could be climbed and explored. Vessel will lift the public up, offering new ways to look at New York, Hudson Yards and each other.

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Due for completion in Autumn 2018, Vessel project has been commissioned as the centrepiece for the largest development in New York City since the Rockefeller Center.

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Its 154 interconnecting flights of stairs, 2,400 steps and 80 landings will create a mile’s worth of pathway rising up above the public plaza. It will stand 150 feet tall, with a diameter of 50 feet at its base, widening to 150 feet at its top. Currently in fabrication in Italy, it is constructed of a structural painted steel frame with its underside surfaces covered by a polished copper-coloured steel skin.

Project info:

Architects: Heatherwick Studio
Group Leader: Stuart Wood
Project Leader: Laurence Dudeney
Team: Einar Blixhavn, Charlotte Bovis, Antoine van Erp, Felipe Escudero; Thomas Farmer, Jessica In, Nilufer Kocabas, Panagiota Kotsovinou, Alexander Laing, Elli Liverakou, Luke Plumbley, Daniel Portilla, Jeff Powers, Matthew Pratt, Peter Romvári, Ville Saarikoski, Takashi Tsurumaki, Ivan Ucros Polley.