Related Unveils Design for Towering $150 Million 'Vessel' in Hudson Yards
A massive piece of public art will anchor the development which is re-imagining Manhattan’s West Side.
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New York's next public landmark is a giant lattice made of 154 interconnected staircases that will anchor Hudson Yards, the mega development rapidly going up on the Far West Side.
The design was unveiled Wednesday at the site of the future five-acre public square and gardens, to the accompaniment of hammering and drilling all around. Created by British designer Thomas Heatherwick, 46, and provisionally dubbed “Vessel,” the work will feature 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings—a mile of pathways in total—cascading upward to a height of 16 stories.