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In a caption and the text of an article we misdescribed James Corner as an architect. He has been appointed as lead landscape architect for the Camden Highline structure (âManhattan makeover for London with floating green walkway planâ, 21 February, page 23). Other recently amended articles include:
An aerial look at the proposed Camden Highline A slice of Manhattan could soon be coming to London, as the team behind New York’s High Line has been appointed to design London’s very own park in the sky, in Camden. The Camden Highline initiative plans to morph a three-quarter-mile stretch of disused railway into a pedestrianised route between Camden and Kings Cross. The idea came from an academic at University College London named Oliver O’Brien, who posted a blog in 2012 listing the stretches of disused railway in London where a highline could possibly work. The section that was deemed...
Manhattan makeover for London with floating green walkway plan James Tapper © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Randy Duchaine / Alamy/Alamy New York was revitalised by the High Line, a ribbon of parkland floating above Manhattan on a disused elevated railway that has become one of the city’s biggest tourist attractions. Now the High Line’s designer hopes to give London its own green thread, after being chosen to create the Camden Highline. James Corner was picked last week as the lead architect for the structure, a linear park on three-quarters of a mile of railway ...
James Corner Field Operations has won a competition to convert a kilometre-long section of disused railway in central London into the Camden Highline.
An aerial view of the disused railway that will become a walking path - Credit: Camden Highline A US firm will design the Camden Highline after winning an international competition for the ‘park in the sky’ connecting Camden Town to King’s Cross. Field Operations, which was behind the New York High Line that inspired the Camden project, will lead on the £35 million elevated park stretching between Camden Gardens and York Way. The project, which was started by Camden Town Unlimited in 2017, will create a walking route eight metres above the ground using three quarters of a mile of...