The Lowline, NYC's Underground Park, Will Be Replicated Across The World; VIDEO

The Lowline, NYC's Underground Park, Will Be Replicated Across The World

Henri Adams 

Concept for the finished Lowline. Image Credit: Raad Studio

In New York, developers think vertically. Their inclination, and often only option, is to stack and continue stacking, floor on floor, building on building. But the city’s most anticipated public space won’t be found by craning the neck, in fact the space is already there, beneath the city’s sidewalks.

The Lowline, the subterranean converse of the High Line, will be the world’s first underground public space when it is completed in 2021. Built in an abandoned trolley terminal on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it will use innovative solar technology created by James Ramsey of Raad Studio that harnesses light in receptors above the street and funnels it underground before dispersing it, creating an underground park filled with natural light. Because the park uses sunlight, it will be able to support an array of plant life and green space. Think sunny, open-air picnics in January.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/henriadams/2016/08/09/the-lowline-nycs-underground-park-will-be-replicated-across-the-world/#5c15e76c1635

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