New York firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group have completed The Shed, a cultural centre in Manhattan's Hudson Yards, featuring a retractable roof that can be moved to form a performance area.
Measuring 200,00 square feet (18,500 square metres), The Shed is a new venue for art-goers located on the northern edge of Chelsea in New York City, forming part of the city's major Hudson Yards development.
The eight-storey cultural institution, which opens to the public 5 April 2019, faces Thomas Heatherwick's massive structure, currently named The Vessel, that opened last week.
The High Line concludes with The Shed, a new art centre at Hudson Yards
The Shed's Bloomberg Building was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DSR), with Rockwell Group as collaborating architect. It features a U-shaped, moving roof that virtually doubles the size of the art complex. The building is intended to be flexible and can physically transform itself, based on the needs and requests of artists using the space.
"The building had to be flexible, so flexible that it could even change in size, on demand," DSR co-founder Elizabeth Diller told a group of journalists at The Shed's opening on 3 April 2019. "But it had to be flexible without defaulting to the generic, and that's very very important," said Diller.
The Shed's retractable roof extends from the base of a nearby tower, viewed from West 30th Street.
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