 | Penny Herscovitch's design for the transformation of a defunct freight line in Manhattan is one of five by recent Yale graduates that were put on display in Grand Central Station as part of the "Designing the High Line" competition. |
Recent Yale graduates were honored in an international design competition for a proposed rail-to-trail garden project in New York.
The competition, titled "Designing the High Line: Ideas for Reclaiming 1.5 Miles of Manhattan," sought proposals for the transformation of a defunct elevated freight line that runs 22 blocks along an industrialized section of the city.
Works by five of the Yale students -- Ravi D'Cruz, Luan Hu, Naved Sheikh, Eugene Wong and Penny Herscovitch, all members of the Class of 2003 -- are on view through July 26 in an exhibition in New York's Grand Central Station. In addition, two other Yale alumni won prestigious awards. Andrew Heid '02 received the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Award and Elijah Huge, a recent graduate of the School of Architecture, received Honorable Mention.
The recent Yale College graduates came up with their proposals as an assignment in an advanced design studio at the School of Architecture. Students taking the course have to prepare designs for a different competition every year as their final senior project, according to Sophia Gruzdys, director of undergraduate studies in the School of Architecture. Previous design studio projects have included the Martin Luther King Jr. monument and an ideas competition for an inner-city area in Berlin -- for which Heid also received a major award.
This year's rail proposal competition "emphasizes issues of site," says Gruzdys, noting that it offered a particular challenge for students to test their creative mettle.
Built in the 1930s, the high line hasn't been used since 1980. Since then, the seven-acre space, perched from 18 to 30 feet above the street, has become a natural meadowland overtaken by wild flora. According to the sponsors of the competition, the non-profit community group called Friends of the High Line, the designs were never meant to be built, only to explore the possibilities -- "from the highly practical to the purely visionary" -- that the unique space presents.
The competition attracted 720 entries from 36 countries, 100 of which are featured in the Grand Central Station display.
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