This Floating Park is a Modern Architectural Marvel 🤩 How Did They Build That? | Smithsonian Channel

[@patriciabristow-johnson5951]

This is amazing!!! I can't believe I had never heard of it until now

[@CreativeUsernameEh]

Looks incredible… a real work of art.

[@jamessmith3978]

Look, I'm floating on all of these pilings !!!

[@titanicman9329]

This was actually supposed to be Titanic's dock originally.

[@jamesfracasse8178]

Pier 59 which is now a golf ⛳ course and a floating park 🏞️!

[@ross8036]

This channel is under rated

[@tharun206]

I love it

[@lindaheath784]

How is this floating????

[@TerrorTerros]

Its not

[@unclejimmy5778]

Floating in the sense that hoverboards actually hover.

[@freesk8]

OK, so there are homeless people, and crime is rampant, and taxes are way too high, and the City spends millions to make a park? Where is their sense of priority?

[@HermannTheGreat]

Not just any park, a "floating" park.

[@harperwelch5147]

Thomas Heatherwick dreamt it up.

[@florenceo.2756]

Spectacular 👏🏽

[@1MeowNow]

its NOT floating, its on piers

[@kiddsupreme]

I think this guy was in Top Gun: Maverick 🤔

[@oneshotme]

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[@themcgeefamily7514]

💚💙

[@eatmanyzoos]

question. if architects use computers to simulate the physics then why cant someone who didn't go to school for engineering get a job as an architect?

[@SimplyStuart94]

Maybe I future they can, but for now, as I understand it, it's a protected profession because we didn't always have computers to do the calculations so that responsibility fell on the architect (as well as other engineers)

[@kennethdavis4987]

I’m curious; what was the carbon foot print for this project? It seems like the planet got just tad bit warmer for vanity’s sake. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@elifuentes7070]

Don’t worry. In terms of carbon footprint, NY state in general has the second lowest carbon footprint of all the states in US. And that is in large part due to NYC vast investment in public transportation, our multifamily housing. We need the space for public park and we need parks like this, “vanity” as you call it.

[@ShaggyRax]

Better to build a park like this in a dense area than bulldoze and sh

[@freesk8]

@@elifuentes7070 The taxes used to pay for the park destroyed jobs. Created more poverty.

[@elifuentes7070]

@@freesk8 what taxes? This is funded by 100% donated funds. No tax dollars were used here.

[@HermannTheGreat]

@@elifuentes7070 If you believe that I've got a park in Siberia I want to sell you.

[@bradwatson7324]

At the low-low cost of what? I wouldn't be surprised if it cost 10 billion dollars.

[@unclejimmy5778]

The project cost $260million. The money probably could have been better spent restoring or expanding existing parks. But when the rich people of Manhatten want something, by golly you'd better deliver.

[@elifuentes7070]

@@unclejimmy5778 so what? It is privately funded and will provide additional public space in that part of Manhattan.

[@unclejimmy5778]

@@elifuentes7070 You are far more passionate about this than I am. All i said was the cost and offered my opinion. You think the money well spent. I don't. Simple as that.

[@fahadabdulraheem1407]

@@unclejimmy5778 Diller family contributed 260 m$ to this project Not the whole cost I guess

[@elifuentes7070]

@@fahadabdulraheem1407 They did fund the whole thing and not only that, they committed enough funds for the park’s upkeep for the next 30 or so years.

[@kathyheavner3585]

So.... Nowhere to put the homeless there, but hundreds of millions for a Park? Huh. Huh.

[@500iq6foot8]

I like the information but this island and the golden trashcan in NYC; I cant stand either

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Birch? Humm

[@magz875]

This is being blown out of proportions. Sorry but it's not that much of a modern marvel. Very simple basics where you're barely building on top of concrete slabs pierced into the solid river bed underneath. Nothing's floating per say...

[@treck87]

What an absolute WASTE of tax-payer money! How about working on the economy and homelessness.

[@garyrebholz4139]

Huh? I get the repurposing of a rail trestle into highline park. This park makes me think there's way too much extra money floating around NYC.

[@1jotun136]

What an insane waste of resources just to satisfy some designer's ego.

[@SimplyStuart94]

I don't know why, but I hate it

[@gooseface2690]

Awful!