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The Shed (originally Culture Shed)

545 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001 approximate location

The built Shed retained its defining idea: an outer shell that rolls over the adjoining plaza to create a large event space. The developed design also integrated support functions into adjacent 15 Hudson Yards. The sources reviewed do not establish that this was a late downgrade from a fully standalone committed design.

What got built

Current photograph of The Shed (originally Culture Shed) in New York.
Photograph by Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, 2019-07-05. Source. CC BY 2.0.

This photograph was verified against the project and published with recorded first-party, public-domain, or reusable-license rights. How the visual evidence works.

What changed

  • Early planning described a Culture Shed with a telescoping outer shell that could roll over the adjoining plaza to expand the cultural space.
  • In the developed and built design, offices, mechanical space, dressing rooms and storage occupy part of the base of adjoining 15 Hudson Yards.
  • Diller Scofidio + Renfro describes that integration as a way to devote The Shed's above-ground volume to programmable art space, not as a value-engineered reduction.
  • The retractable shell was built and can deploy over the plaza in about five minutes.
  • Early planning targets of 2017 to 2018 should be read as dated targets; The Shed opened April 5, 2019.

Why it changed

The architects describe sharing support space with 15 Hudson Yards as a deliberate part of the developed design that maximized programmable art space. The reviewed sources do not establish that the integration replaced a fully standalone construction commitment.

Details

Status
Built, with documented differences from the rendering.
Where
New York, NY
Neighborhood
Hudson Yards
Developer
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the City of New York, alongside Hudson Yards developers Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group; Michael Bloomberg contributed a $75 million founding gift
Architect
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (lead architect), with Rockwell Group (collaborating architect)
Rendering credit
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group
The built result
Photographed by Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, 2019-07-05

Sources

  1. Diller Scofidio + Renfro: The Shed dsrny.com
  2. Wikipedia: The Shed (arts center) en.wikipedia.org
  3. The Shed: official building description theshed.org
  4. Dezeen: The Shed opening and completed retractable structure dezeen.com

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