Little Island designed to create "the feeling of leaving Manhattan behind" says Thomas Heatherwick
The elevated topography of Little Island was designed to create a sense of escape from Manhattan, according to designer Thomas Heatherwick in this interview with Dezeen.
Designed in partnership with global engineering firm Arup and landscape architects MNLA, Little Island rests on 132 concrete columns over the Hudson River near New York City's Meatpacking District. It opened to the public last week.
Thomas Heatherwick designed Little Island. Photo courtesy of Heatherwick Studio
Heatherwick was originally asked to design a pavilion for a traditional flat pier, but his studio pitched the idea for an undulating island away from the mainland.
By building a park out over the Hudson, accessible only by gangplank-style bridges, Heatherwick hopes visitors can experience "the feeling of actually leaving Manhattan behind". "[It's] somewhere that would give a sort of emotional permission to look back at New York from somewhere other than New York," he told Dezeen.
Little Island is located on the Hudson River near New York City's Meatpacking District
Originally called Pier 55, the park sits near the remains of Pier 54. The historic structure, where survivors of the Titanic disembarked in 1912, is now reduced to clusters of wooden piles sticking out of the water.
Little Island's design was informed by "ghost piers" such as this, according to Heatherwick.
"Normally there's a lid put over them," he said. "The reason that the old piers are i...
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