Little Island
Floating public park built atop 132 concrete tulip-shaped piles rising from the Hudson River.
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This guide to Little Island in New York City follows media mogul Barry Diller's promise of a floating garden on the Hudson, designed by Thomas Heatherwick and funded with two hundred and sixty million dollars of Diller and Diane von Furstenberg's own money. It traces how a rival developer quietly funded lawsuits over the project's environmental permits, and the autumn of 2017 when the park collapsed for forty-three days. Along the way it covers how Heatherwick's design grew out of old pier pilings jutting from the river, flared into concrete planting bowls rising above the water.
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