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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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