Hudson Yards

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Hudson Yards
Hudson Yards
Hudson Yards in January 2019
Basic data
Place: New York City , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Construction time : 2012-2024Template: future / in 4 years
Opening: March 15, 2019 (first building)
Status : partly under construction / in planning
Architectural style : Postmodern
Use / legal
Usage : Office / apartments / hotel

Hudson Yards is a neighborhood on the west edge of New York City 's Manhattan that will consist of around 15 skyscrapers , some of which are already completed. The name is derived from the Hudson River and the West Side Yard , the depot of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR).

location

Location of the neighborhood Hudson Yards

The neighborhood is bounded by 30th Street to the south and 43rd Street to the north . To the west the area is bordered by Twelfth Avenue , which runs along the Hudson River, and to the east is Eighth Avenue . The neighborhood includes the Javits Convention Center and is considered a western extension of central Midtown Manhattan .

history

The quarter was created through a rezoning of poorly used land in which an outdated, restrictive zoning regime prevailed. As part of New York's candidacy for the 2012 Summer Olympics, it was planned to build a sports stadium on the site. The West Side Stadium would have become the home of the New York Jets after the games . With the new zoning plan from 2005 and its amendment from 2009, the area was cleared for the construction of skyscrapers, at the same time it was better served by public transport by extending the underground line 7 to the new district. The zoning plan provides for an eight-hectare network of open spaces that will run through the center of the new business district.

building

Map of Hudson Yards and the 7 Subway Extension
Hudson Yards on April 14, 2017 as seen from the Empire State Building
The Hudson Yards (Eastern Yard) on April 12th, 2017, as seen from the "High Line"

The heart of the new district is the Hudson Yards Complex , which is built on a four-hectare reinforced concrete slab above the West Side Yard. It consists of the six skyscrapers:

  • 10 Hudson Yards : 268 m, office building. Completed in 2016.
  • 15 Hudson Yards : 279 m, opened. Apartments. Was completed in 2019. The Shed cultural center , which opened in April 2019, is integrated into this building .
  • 30 Hudson Yards : 387 m, office building, topping-out ceremony at the end of 2018, completed in 2019.
  • 35 Hudson Yards : 308 m. Hotel and apartments, completed in 2019.
  • 50 Hudson Yards : 308 m, office building, under construction since 2018, completion planned for 2022.
  • 55 Hudson Yards : 237 meters, completed in 2018.

To the east of the Hudson Yards Complex is the Manhattan West Complex above the entrance to Pennsylvania Station . It includes five skyscrapers:

  • One Manhattan West
  • Two Manhattan West
  • 3 Manhattan West
  • 4 Manhattan West
  • 5 Manhattan West

Further skyscrapers are to the north of the two developments:

  • Hudson Rise : 219 m, planned. Hotel and apartments.
  • The Spiral : should be the tallest building in the complex and the city at 549 m. Since 2016 the plans have been changed into a 317 m high office building, which is supposed to form an impressive spiral with cascading terraces and hanging gardens.
  • 3 Hudson Boulevard , 301 m, office building, under construction since 2017, completion planned for 2022

A striking office building is planned east of Penn Station:

The construction project is to form a new business center, similar to that of the World Trade Center . Construction work began in early December 2012. The first phase was opened on March 15, 2019, and phase II is expected to be completed by 2024.

Subway

The new underground tunnel during construction in 2012

Parallel to the rest of the development of the new area, the extension of the IRT Flushing Line of the New York subway towards Hudson Yards was opened in September 2015 . Contrary to the original plan, however, only one additional Hudson Yards station was built. The lines NYCS-bull-trans-7-hrsvgand NYCS-bull-trans-7d-std.svgwere extended to connect the area directly to the East Side and Queens .

Overbuilding of the track harp

Sidings for the commuter trains, which will remain under the high-rise buildings, as well as the accessible structure "The Vessel", which is wider than the high-rise buildings (construction work in November 2017)

The Hudson Yards site is used by 30 sidings, which are used during the day to park commuter trains serving Penn Station , the busiest train station in the United States. The tracks must remain in operation and also during the entire construction period.

For this purpose, the track harp will be covered with a platform that will stand on around 300 supports that will be driven down between the tracks to the massive rock. At the eastern end of the platform, where the access tracks converge, a bridge construction will support the platform and its buildings.

Part of the superstructure is the Vessel construction , an approx. 50 m high observation tower inspired by MC Escher , which consists only of stairs and platforms. The structure was completed in December 2017 and opened on March 15, 2019.

Because the construction work has to take place while the railway line is in operation, project management is of particular importance. Only four sidings can be blocked at any one time; the access tracks can only be closed for operation on weekends and only briefly.

The Hudson Yards project is the largest such construction project; the technique was used in New York as early as the 1960s. The Park Avenue is largely above the tracks of Grand Central Station .

See also

Web links

Commons : Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The house that knows what you will want in FAZ of May 17, 2014, page 9
  2. ^ Hudson Yards - Project Update . Presentation to the New York Building Congress. September 12, 2012 ( buildingcongress.com [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Curbed Staff: How the New York Jets Very Nearly Got a West Side Stadium. January 30, 2015, accessed April 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ City of New York (Ed.): Hudson Yards . Creating Open Space Network, p. 3 ( nyc.gov [PDF]).
  5. ^ Hudson Yards Complex. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ David W. Dunlap: A Hudson Yards Garden Will Grow With Concrete, Coolant and High-Power Fans . In: The New York Times . July 22, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 2, 2020]).
  7. ↑ 10 Hudson Yards. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ 15 Hudson Yards. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 30 Hudson Yards. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ 35 Hudson Yards. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  11. ↑ 50 Hudson Yards. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 55 Hudson Yards. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  13. ^ Manhattan West Complex. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Hudson Rise Hotel. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  15. ↑ The Spiral. In: The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  16. ^ David A. Arnott: Finally, the 7 subway extension has an opening date. New York Business Journal, August 28, 2015, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  17. ^ How New York Is Building an Entire Neighborhood on Top of a Rail Yard , Atlantic Cities, March 19, 2014
  18. ↑ New York's Next Big Landmark Is a $ 150 Million Stairway to Nowhere - RealClearLife. In: realclearlife.com. Retrieved September 27, 2016 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 18 "  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 14.4"  W.