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Design teams selected for High Line project.


Friends of the High Line and the City of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 announced that four teams of renowned architects, landscape architects, engineers, planners, and other professionals have been selected as finalists to create a master plan for the High Line, an elevated rail structure on Manhattan's West Side.

"Transforming the High Line into a unique and accessible elevated park will be one of the most important things we will do for future generations in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
," said Amanda M. Burden, Chair of the City Planning Commission.

"The team we choose must be of a caliber that matches that important task. Fortunately, we are selecting from among the freest minds in architecture and landscape design, whose team submissions demonstrate the creative vision necessary for this project. I am thrilled to be taking part in selecting these talented finalists."

Each team is led by an architecture firm, a landscape architecture firm, or multiple firms joined in collaborative leadership. Below, team leads and principal consultants, in alphabetical order. Full team listings can be found at the end of this document:

* Field Operations, landscape architects; Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, architects; Olafur Eliasson, artist; Piet Oudolf, horticulture; Halie Light & L'Observatoire International, lighting.

* Zaha Hadid Architects, architects; Balmori Associates, landscape architects; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol  (Marilyn Jordan Taylor), architects; studio MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics.  (Markus Dochantschi), architects.

* Steven Holl Architects, architects; Hargreaves Associates, landscape design; HNTB HNTB Howard Needles Tammen and Bergendoff (Architecture)
HNTB Holland Nordic Basketball Tournament (Groningen, the Netherlands)
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, technical design.

* TerraGRAM: Michael Van Valkenburgh Michael R. Van Valkenburgh (b. 1950, Lexington, New York) is an American landscape architect and educator. Van Valkenburgh is the founder and principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), an award-winning landscape architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and  Associates, landscape architects; D.I.R.T. Studio (Julie Bargmann), industrial site design; Beyer Blinder Belle (Neil Kittredge), urban design.

Team Visions will be on Display at the Center for Architecture July 15-Aug. 14. The design approaches of the finalist teams will be exhibited at the Center for Architecture starting Thursday, July 15, when an opening night panel discussion will be moderated by Rick Bell, Executive Director of AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture  New York Chapter.

Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place. For information call (212) 683-0023.
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Title Annotation:Inside Construction
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Geographic Code:1U2NY
Date:Jun 9, 2004
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