The Highline
ProductSuperiorJenn, zerodaze, and I were lucky enough to be able to take a walk through the just completed first section of the High Line park in the meat packing district just two days after it officially opened to the public. I say lucky because we were greeted with an absence of screaming people formed into block long lines, an almost empty park, a spectacular sky, and just enough time to finish walking through before it poured.
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Cool detail shots of the architecture and I like the ominous clouds behind that building structure in the first photo. Seems fitting somehow.
I agree, that first shot is really cool. For some reason, it makes me think of the building that the final scene of Fight Club was shot in.
The building is the brand spanking new Standard Hotel in case anyone is interested. I'd been wanting to get a photo of it and just got lucky enough to have a thunderstorm brewing when I got around to going out there.
Yeah, I could see the whole Fight Club connection. The way Fight Club was filmed gave everything a very washed out detached deadpan look that kind of screams modernism. The Standard is definitely designed in a way to project that same kind of feeling. Zerodaze described it as "It's kind of grey. Maybe too grey." after seeing it in person.
I think your photo makes The Standard look much more colorful than it is in person. Haha. It's like a big concrete monolith. The last photo well captures one thing I appreciated about Highline: though it's a newly designed park, it wasn't over done to the point of non-recognition: though now manicured, it still held elements of what was curious from it's overgrown former state; with the mix of grassy plants and gravel strewn in and out of the old train tracks.
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