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The story of New York's Staircase : a Heatherwick Studio design / [authors, Jeff Chu, Paul Goldberger, Sarah Medford].
Fine Arts Library NA9350.N5 S76 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chu, Jeff, author.
- Medford, Sarah, author.
- Goldberger, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public spaces.
- Urban parks.
- Public sculpture.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Public sculpture--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.
- Urban parks--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.
- Public spaces--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 141 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- New York's Staircase
- Place of Publication:
- Munich [Germany] : Prestel, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Designed by ... Heatherwick Studio, the soaring centerpiece of Hudson Yards' Public Square & Gardens is a completely different kind of monument. With 2,500 steps, 154 staircases, and 80 landings--a full mile of pathways in all--it is one of the most complex pieces of steelwork ever constructed"--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Up, up and away : designing and making New York's Staircase / Jeff Chu
- A West Side story : Hudson Yards, the new heart of New York / Sarah Medford
- Movement as monument : a twenty-first century public space / Paul Goldberger.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9783791384733
- 3791384732
- OCLC:
- 1129391011
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