Culture Shed

Culture Shed

Architect's rendering of the proposed Culture Shed structure, seen from the High Line.
Proposed location of Culture Shed in Manhattan
Location 15 Hudson Yards,
30th Street between 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001
Coordinates 40°45′12″N 74°00′10″W / 40.753328°N 74.002898°W / 40.753328; -74.002898Coordinates: 40°45′12″N 74°00′10″W / 40.753328°N 74.002898°W / 40.753328; -74.002898
Director Alex Poots
Public transit access

New York City Subway:
  trains at 34th Street
New York City Bus:

  • M11 NB at Tenth Avenue
  • M12 (SB at Eleventh Avenue, NB at 12th Avenue)
  • M34 SBS at 34th Street
Website nycultureshed.org

Culture Shed (formerly known as Hudson Yards Cultural Shed) is the name of an independent non-profit cultural organization, as well as its eponymous six-story[1] building under development on the far west side of Manhattan, being built within the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, adjacent to the northern leg of the High Line and in the Chelsea gallery district.[2] Scheduled to open in 2019, Culture Shed will host activities in a wide range of cultural areas[3] including art, performance, film, design, food, fashion, and new combinations of cultural content.[4] Construction began in mid-2015.[5] The CEO/Artistic Director for Culture Shed will be Alex Poots.[6]

History

Rezoning

In January 2005, the New York City Council approved the rezoning of about 60 blocks from 28th to 43rd Streets;[7] in 2009, after the stadium failed to win state approval, the West Side Yard was similarly rezoned. As rezoned, the Hudson Yards area will have 25,800,000 square feet (2,400,000 m2) of Class A office space, 20,000 housing units, two million square feet of hotel space, 750-seat public school, one million square feet of retail and more than 20 acres of public open space,[8][9] which includes building a subway extension of the 7 train to help encourage development of the Hudson Yards area.[10]

In May 2010, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) leased the air rights over the rail yard for 99 years, at a price of US$1 billion to a joint venture of Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group, which will build a platform above both the eastern and western portions of the yard on which to construct the buildings, including the Culture Shed.[11]

In April 2013, the Related/Oxford joint venture obtained a $475 million construction loan from parties including Barry Sternlicht's Starwood Property Group and luxury retailer Coach. The financing deal was unique in several aspects, including the fact that it included a construction mezzanine loan, that Coach was a lender on both the debt and equity sides,[12] and that the MTA helped create the "severable lease" structure that allowed for the loans.[13]

Funding and land ownership

Aerial view of the architect's rendering of the proposed Culture Shed structure at night
The platform supporting the Culture Shed under construction in September 2014

As part of the Hudson Yards rezoning plan, Culture Shed, a relatively small six-story building compared to the Hudson Yards skyscrapers,[14] will sit at the south side of the Hudson Yards development site, four blocks away from the newly constructed 34th Street subway station.[15] The City retains ownership of the land on which Culture Shed will be built and has provided Capital Grant funding for the project.[16] Funding for the Culture Shed was secured from the City in July of 2013.[16]

Construction

Culture Shed broke ground in 2015[17] and is scheduled to open in 2019,[18][2] though construction of the shed will be complete in 2018.[19][20]

The design of the Culture Shed building is a collaboration between two New York City architectural firms: Diller Scofidio + Renfro[16] and Rockwell Group.[21] The Culture Shed Organization, a nonprofit organization, was formed in 2012 to oversee construction of the Culture Shed, and eventually will run the building when it opens in 2019.[14][22]

Construction of the Culture Shed, which will be over the West Side Yards, began after caissons were sunk to support a platform over the tracks.[23] The platform supporting the towers, comprising 16 bridges, was completed in late 2014.[24] The construction of the building itself began in mid-2015.[5]

Although previous reports stated that the building would open in 2017 or 2018,[2] it will not open until 2019 as of an April 2015 update.[25]

Design

The Hudson Rail Yards area is about 26 acres (110,000 m2). The Culture Shed, at the base of Hudson Yards Tower D,[26] is a 170,000-square-foot (16,000 m2) visual arts and performing arts center is to be located at the area's southern edge, and there is also to be an exhibition space in the Culture Shed.[27] The structure will include 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) of column-free exhibition space and an expandable, 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) shed[16] that uses industrial crane technology,[28] allowing the space to expand and contract to accommodate many events and audiences.[29][30] Viewers of indoor shows and exhibitions will be charged admission.[22]

The Culture Shed's main entrance will be on 30th Street under the High Line; secondary entrances will be located on 31st Street, atop the platform.[22] There will be two galleries indoors on the first and second levels. On the third level will be a flexible space that can be used for performances or exhibits. The building's roof features a retractable shed, which can close and open within 15 minutes; when the shed is retracted, the open-air plaza will be a publicly accessible outdoor space.[22][31] The shed will be directly adjacent to 15 Hudson Yards and the High Line.[32]

Events

At least one event, New York Fashion Week, is considering moving to the shed for all of its exhibitions.[33][34][35]

Criticism

Board members on Manhattan Community Board 4 stated that the Culture Shed "could lack class", that the word "culture" is too vague for the name of such an exhibition space, and that problems could arise when a 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) space is closed off twice a year for two weeks (adding up to a month annually) for New York Fashion Week.[36] Community board members also state that when the retractable roof is closed, 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of open public space would be lost.[37][31] Additionally, some expressed concerns that the large value of the Capital Grant allocation—US$50 million—was too much money to award to a building that did not yet exist.[16] However, overall, the shed has drawn mixed public reviews, as well as high praise from numerous art institutions.[37]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hudson Yards Master Plan" (PDF). Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Davidson, Justin (14 February 2013). "Davidson: Mayor Bloomberg Reveals the Best Concert Venue of 2018". New York Magazine (New York, NY).
  3. ↑ Rackard, Nicky (28 February 2013), "Diller Scofidio + Renfro Designs Telescopic ‘Culture Shed’ for New York", ArchDaily
  4. ↑ Maloney, Jennifer (28 February 2013). "Seeking to Turn Corner on Arts 'Shed'". Wall Street Journal (New York, NY).
  5. 1 2 "Progress Report: Hudson Yards". Chelsea Now. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (24 November 2014). "Alex Poots to be Culture Shed’s artistic director". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  7. ↑ Purnick, Joyce (January 2, 2005). "What Rises in the West? Uncertainty". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
  8. ↑ Bagli, Charles V. (December 21, 2009). "Rezoning Will Allow Railyard Project to Advance". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
  9. ↑ Naidoo, Ridhika (23 July 2010). "Diller scofidio + renfro: culture shed". Design Boom.
  10. ↑ "Work to Begin Under Last Major Contract Needed to Extend the 7". MTA.info. September 14, 2011. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
  11. ↑ "MTA Finalizes Hudson Yards Deal". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 26, 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  12. ↑ Samtani, Hiten (August 13, 2013). "Anatomy of a deal: Inside Related/Oxford’s unusual financing of Hudson Yards". The Real Deal. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
  13. ↑ "MTA, RELATED AND OXFORD CLOSE ON 99-YEAR HUDSON YARDS LEASE". Bloomberg. April 10, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  14. 1 2 "Hudson Yards Platform Soon to be Underway, Sparking Eastern Rail Yard". Chelsea Now. February 26, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  15. ↑ Taylor, Kate (15 July 2010). "West Side Project Wins Grant for Urban Design". New York Times (New York, NY).
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 Pogrebin, Robin (31 July 2013). "City Allots $50 Million to Favored Arts Project". New York Times (New York, NY).
  17. ↑ Fedak, Nikolai (28 February 2013). "Unveiled and Approved: The Hudson Yards Culture Shed". Newspaper. New York Yimby. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  18. ↑ Fisher Dachs Associates – Culture Shed 2018
  19. ↑ "NYFW Update". Web page. 27 July 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  20. ↑ Rackard, Nicky (28 February 2013). "Diller Scofidio + Renfro Designs Telescopic ‘Culture Shed’ for New York". ArchDaily. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  21. ↑ Maloney, Jennifer (14 May 2013). "Video: Inside Hudson Yards’ Proposed ‘Culture Shed’". Wall Street Journal Metropolis Blog.
  22. 1 2 3 4 Chaban, Matt (5 February 2013). "Hudson Yard's Culture Shed detailed". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  23. ↑ "30 Hudson Yards Connects to New No 7 Subway Station | Hudson Yards". Hudsonyardsnewyork.com. 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  24. ↑ "Hudson Yards Set to Alter Skyline, Transform Neighborhood". Chelsea Now. February 6, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  25. ↑ Lisa Lockwood (13 April 2015). "New York Fashion Week Leaves Lincoln Center". Women's Wear Daily. Retrieved 14 April 2015. While the completion date was initially projected around 2017, informed sources indicated that’s way off and it will take much longer—possibly till 2019 or later—to finish the project.
  26. ↑ "HUDSON YARDS TOWER D". skyscraper.org. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  27. ↑ "Design Award Recipients 2012".
  28. ↑ Maloney, Jennifer (28 February 2013). "Seeking to Turn Corner on Arts 'Shed'". Wall Street Journal (New York).
  29. ↑ "Inside Culture Shed". The Wall Street Journal.
  30. ↑ "Video - Inside Culture Shed: A Video Rendering of the Exhibition Space Planned for Hudson Yards". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  31. 1 2 Hennessey, Rachel (June 4, 2013). "Hudson Yards To Shake Up Manhattan Skyline". Forbes. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  32. ↑ Gately, Maeve (May 30, 2013). "NYC Culture Shed, a Permanent Space for Temporary Events". Hyperallergic. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  33. ↑ "NYFW Possibly Moving to Hudson Yard's New Culture Shed". Downtownmagazinenyc.com. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  34. ↑ Thursday July 25, 2013 11:20 AM By Nina Ruggiero (2013-07-25). "Fashion Week sees permanent home in Hudson Yards - Explore LI". Long-island.newsday.com. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  35. ↑ "New York Fashion Week 2013 Location: Hudson Yards Could Become New Home to Fashion Week, it's 'A Wonderful Place for Fashion Week' : Fashion". Fashion Times. 2013-07-25. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  36. ↑ Katz, Mathew (March 19, 2013). "Hudson Yards 'Culture Shed' Could Lack Class, Strip Open Space, Board Fears". The Real Deal. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  37. 1 2 Chaban, Matt (April 11, 2013). "Culture shed draws mixed reviews". The Real Deal. Retrieved June 2, 2014.

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