Blood vessel (2019), a gleaming monument in the heart of the Hudson Yards luxury real estate development on Manhattan’s West Side, has been closed to the public since 2021 and will reopen later this year.this new york postreport first Reopening, no date specified.
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick and his Heatherwick Studio, the 150-foot-tall outdoor installation features 154 flights of stairs rising in a honeycomb pattern and is estimated to cost $200 million. put up. In July 2021, a 14-year-old boy who was visiting with his family jumped to his death from the building, and the building was closed to the public. Blood vessel The center closed in January 2021 after three suicides last year, reopening just two months ago.
at that time Blood vesselReopened briefly in mid-2021 without any modifications to the structure to prevent people from jumping, but added safety staff and instituted new rules requiring visitors ages 5 and older to purchase a $10 ticket (the popular attraction previously Free to anyone) and each visitor must be accompanied by at least one other person.
Now, according to New York TimesA spokesman for a company associated with the Hudson Yards real estate developer said the building will have “floor-to-ceiling steel mesh” on multiple staircases. The building’s lowest two floors will remain fully open, and its top floor (equivalent to the height of the building’s 16th floor) will remain closed to the public.
Heatherwick, a divided man An artist, designer and architect, he is known for the public projects he and his studio have created, including the Olympic cauldron for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and Island Park near the shores of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.The following Blood vesselAn employee at Heatherwick Studio tells us the studio will be closing for the second time in July 2021 New York Times The company “for this Blood vessel Not long ago,” but developers have been reluctant to build them.
Since opening in 2019, Blood vessel Both a hugely popular tourist attraction and a much-maligned piece of public art – alternately likened to a “giant shawarma”“And, Heatherwick himself, to a giant dumpster. It became the object of further scorn when it was discovered that the attraction’s unusual photo policy gave Hudson Yards the right to use any photos taken nearby. Blood vessel for your own commercial purposes without restriction or royalty payments (as this policy has subsequently been revised).
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