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Eureka! High Line Part 2

New York’s West Wide High Line park just doubled in size with the opening of Falcone Flyover, Viewing Spur, Chelsea Thicket and other poetically named High Line experiences. Designers James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro have created an amazing piece of urban landscape with the High Line, an exquisite urban retreat running from Gansevoort Street to West 30th St, connecting the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen.

New access points are located at West 23rd Street, West 26th Street, West 28th Street, and West 30th Street, supplementing the five existing access points at Gansevoort Street, West 14th Street, West 16th Street, and West 18th Street, and West 20th Street. All access points will be open daily during the public park’s summer operating hours, from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM.

West Siders now have a lawn — a 4,900-square-foot-lawn all the way from 22nd to 23rd Street. Now that is living!! See images on the High Line’s Facebook Page.

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Treehouse-Inspired Design

Tree Restaurant by Koichi Takada Architects Dezeen

Australian architects Koichi Takada create a louvred timber canopy restaurant near Sydney. The dining concept celebrates the Japanese festival of the Cherry Blossom in bloom. Note that the white walls actually have blossoms as a stucco-like surface. The concept captures a symbolic place to celebrate spring by dining together under ‘one big tree’ and humans celebrates festivals thousands of years ago. The tree is also symbolic of the business relationship, one in which the owner must nurture the restaurant as if growing a tree. via Dezeen; images by Sharrin Rees.

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