Trees and shrubs undulate like a tousled green crown in a forest of precast-concrete pilings rising out of the Hudson River that unfurl into interlocking tulip-shaped containers for the landscape within. This eye-catching spectacle is Little Island, an addition to the Hudson River Park just north of Renzo Piano’s Whitney Museum on the western edge of Manhattan. It opened May 21.
This tiny, 2.4-acre tour de force of architecture, engineering and landscape design is the brainchild of Heatherwick Studio, known for the artichoke-shaped 150-foot high stair-entwined Vessel at Hudson Yards. Thomas Heatherwick worked with Signe Nielsen, of the landscape architecture firm MNLA, and Arup as engineers.
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