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  • Introduction
  • Open Space
  • The High Line
  • Commercial & Residential
  • Cultural & Public Amenities
  • Sustainability
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The buildings at the West Side Rail Yard are organized around two six-acre public open spaces that act as the organizing spine for the project and form a continuous green space that will be a landmark destination, a showcase of green technologies, an urban refuge, and will offer a diversity of experiences and programming to match that of New York City itself. With an east/west orientation, the open space is conceived as a natural system that provides both a generous view corridor for developments at the site as well as critical linkages between the most prominent surrounding open spaces: Hudson Boulevard, the High Line, and Hudson River Park.

The design adopts a biomimetic concept – using forms from nature that allow many different natural and human systems to work together – to structure the park’s layout, function and appearance. The park spaces that result will be both shelter and spectacle, promoting a healthy exchange between nature and civic life. People moving through the site will encounter a green refuge, a prelude to the immersive landscape of the river and the Palisades beyond.