High Line

The co-creator of the High Line, James Corner Field Operations, has teamed up with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to extend the raised walkway with an attractive new timber bridge that contrasts with the gleaming modern skyscrapers in NYC.

A new High Line-style project is coming to London, UK. Named the Camden Highline, it will create an elevated park and walkway in the vein of the successful New York City attraction and is expected to open in 2025.

NYC's High Line elevated park has been such a success that it's been copied in a number of cities worldwide. Manchester, in England, is the latest, with plans underway to transform one of the city's former railway viaducts into a raised park.

New York City's High Line is slated to be expanded following an announcement by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The project aims to improve pedestrian access in the area and its first phase will reportedly cost roughly $60 million.

New York City's High Line elevated park has been such a success that the basic idea has been copied worldwide. A slice of the Big Apple is now coming to the Big Smoke with a new raised park for London that will include housing, retail, and offices.

British firm Heatherwick Studio has unveiled a new residential project for Manhattan, New York City. Consisting of two buildings either side of the High Line, their most distinctive feature is their unusual bulging glazing, which brings to mind the firm's recently-completed Zeitz MOCAA.

Following an international architecture competition, Japanese firm Nikken Sekkei has won the opportunity to redevelop a stretch of railway line that spans the breadth of Singapore into a green corridor.

A new public park and trail system will open in the US city of Chicago this weekend. The 606, so-called because of the Chicago ZIP code prefix, is built on the former route of the Bloomingdale Line railway track. Its centerpiece is a 2.7-mi (4.3 km) elevated recreation and cultural trail.

The third section of New York's iconic High Line was opened at the weekend. The High Line is a 1.45 mile (2.33 km) long public park created on an old raised rail freight line. Following the opening of the High Line at the Rail Yards, it now stretches from Gansevoort Street to West 34th Street.