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There’s A Proposal To Build 1,000 Ft Walls Around An Excavated Central Park

Designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu want to make New York’s Central Park available to more people by digging down to the bedrock of the park. The idea is to create a 1000-feet tall, 100-feet deep mega structure that provides a total floor area of 7 square miles, which is about 80 times greater than the Empire State Building.

“The ambition is to reverse the traditional relationship between landscape and architecture, in a way that every occupiable space has direct connection to the nature,” – say the authors of the proposal that was awarded first place in eVolo’s annual skyscraper competition.

“With its highly reflective glass cover on all sides, the landscape inside the new park can reach beyond physical boundaries, creating an illusion of infinity. In the heart of New York City, a New Horizon is born.”

More info: evolo.us (h/t: db)

“Central Park, a 1.3 sq. mile urban park, [gives] New Yorkers a chance to escape the busy urban life. However, only a fraction of them can enjoy [it]”

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To make it available to more people, designers want to dig down to reveal the bedrock beneath Central Park

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The 1000-ft tall, 100-ft deep mega structure [would provide] a total floor area of 7 sq. miles, which is ~ 80 times greater than the Empire State Building

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Its highly reflective glass on all sides would create an illusion of infinity – giving birth to a New Horizon

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AniaUchnast 8 years ago

How many birds will die hitting "highly reflective glass cover" which is "creating an illusion of infinity"? :(

93points

LaurensPilger 8 years ago

Haha, but somehow the birds have no problem with the rest of New York?

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MelodyLanzatella 8 years ago

Yeah, they will DEFINITELY fly into it, because its going to look like a continuation of air space. You are right.

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PhillipeKnippel 8 years ago

I am a biologist and i totally agree with you. It looks for me more like a megalomaniacal construction. It must look more like a park, the reason for urban parks is to bring peace and help the mental health and FIRST OF ALL, help the biodiversity like birds and insects like the f*****g important bees. So lets have more trees and flowers on it, not try to make New York into a new Dubai. Hugs!

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ChristianHill 8 years ago

not enough

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AndrzejŚnigórski 8 years ago

No so many I presume - since it is going to be reflective the bird will avoid its own reflection. They're hitting transparent surfaces.

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པདྨ་ལྟ་འུཔོ 8 years ago

Why fix something that ain't broken. The present central park is on my bucket list.

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AshleyBell 8 years ago

(: - Try to make a trip at the height of each season!

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MatthewPandaenchanter 8 years ago

Not only will birds hit the glass, people will deface it into infinity too. Not mention that it would become a breeze-less solar oven and the perfect place to explode a bomb, generating shock-waves that knock out everyone/thing while destroying ear-drums. I cannot say it is conceptually stupid, persay, and I would not insult the 'imagineers' behind this idea, but, um, the good thing about drawing-boards is that you can always go back to them. You really can't dig your way towards this being something viable. I imagine many-a-NYCer who've been smoking joints in the park had similar 'good ideas' from time to time, which nature promptly let evaporate into the ethereal brain box we all have labeled "What the hell was I thinking!? LOL." They might as well build a cave-system or bunker under the bedrock itself, which can be secured and monitored, and activate the space as a reprieve from summer's heat and/or a giant subterranean forest or farm-scape. Double down, don't dig-down, dudes.

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SarahJoyce 8 years ago

Great comment! Plus, the F line and the future Q line subways run under the park. There are tons of tunnels below the park, including utilities and one of the water mains that supply the city. Pretty on paper, completely impractical irl.

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