The principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz is invigorating cities across the country with a new approach to urban parks.
The principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz is invigorating cities across the country with a new approach to urban parks.
On the west side of Manhattan, an armada of cranes and construction workers is building the city's largest 21st-century development. A 28-acre, $25 billion megaproject by Related Companies, Hudson Yards will include six skyscrapers, 17 million square feet of commercial and residential space, a performing arts center, and a hotel. The project's scale is impressive, as is its location spanning one of the busiest railways in New York City—an industrial site filled with train cars and a tangle of tracks and tunnels. But when it's completed in 2025, people won't see any of that heavy infrastructure. They'll stroll through 14 acres of open space planted with native flowers and grasses, beneath groves of trees, and along pathways that will link the new neighborhood to the surrounding parks and streets.
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