Chapter Four: 20th -- 23rd Streets
The HL23 building is detailed:
"The metallic, curving building at 23rd Street and
Tenth Avenue is (somewhat pretentiously) known as HL23,which makes it the first,
but by no means the last, piece of architecture to be named after the
park."
"It was designed by Los Angeles Architect Neil
Denari, and it's a rare building in that it gets wider -- by as much as 40
percent -- as it rises above its much smaller street-level footprint."
"This design, the result of New York's strict zoning
laws, allows it to lean over its namesake."
"As the architecture critic for the Los Angeles
Times put it: 'HL23 behaves like a flower planted along the park's underside
that manages to grow up and out over its urban host.'"
High Line book review continues tomorrow, October 24
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