Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of strolling down the High Line – New York’s remarkable urban park built on the city’s disused raised railway tracks – will be excited to see these newly-unveiled plans for its extension. Snaking round the Rail Yards district, these initial designs show how the wildly-popular project could evolve, mixing the best of the existing features (like the peel-up furniture) with new touches like an in-built kids’ playground. The estimated cost of the third phase is $90 million dollars with a major fundraising campaign underway, with a projected public opening set for spring 2014. We can’t wait.
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.