‘A brand new park within the sky’ for London
The primary section of Camden Highline — a brand new elevated city park in London — has been granted planning permission.
Working for 1.2km of disused railway observe between Camden City and King’s Cross, the challenge sees a inexperienced connective line that can provide verdant areas to Londoners introducing a brand new attraction for the capital. The high-line-style park is predicted to convey new native inexperienced area for 20,000 folks, improve the ecological worth of the location, and enhance Camden’s biodiversity.
‘The Camden Highline has captured native imaginations. It urges us to broaden the horizons of what’s potential inside our cities and is precisely the kind of revolutionary, environmentally sustainable, and community-driven challenge which can proceed to learn and encourage generations to come back. This imaginative and prescient may even convey enormous enterprise alternatives to native small enterprise, serving to to construct a greater, greener, and extra affluent London for everybody. I look ahead to following the Camden Highline on its journey and to strolling in London’s personal park within the sky,’ feedback
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
Camden Highline visualization floor stage view © Hayes Davidson
introducing extra inexperienced areas into inner-London areas
Began as a crowdfunding marketing campaign 4 years in the past, the initiative is led by architects and designers of the New York Excessive Line (see extra right here) — James Nook Subject Operations (extra right here), native structure follow vPPR (extra right here), the Camden Highline crew (right here), and neighborhood engagement specialists Avenue Area (right here). Knowledgeable by woodlands, productive gardens, meadows, and historic British hedgerows, the planting, headed up by famend backyard designer Piet Oudolf in shut collaboration with London Wildlife Belief, will usher guests right into a ‘collection of distinct ecosystems and experiences’.
The primary section spanning between Camden Gardens and Royal School Avenue can now transfer on, whereas the 2 different sections (from Royal School Avenue to Camley Means, and from Camley Means as much as York Means) are nonetheless ready for planning approval. ‘Every part of the Highline will differ in character, in direct response to the totally different neighborhoods, contexts, and circumstances by means of which it travels, to present a real reflection of Camden’s distinctive id. Interactive design options, together with a youngsters’s play zone, volunteer-run allotments, and an out of doors classroom, will come collectively to create a way of city exploration and discovery, whereas balconies will join the park to the city road life beneath.’
Camden Highline South Elevation © vPPR-JCFO
Alongside the park’s size, an architectural display full of nesting websites, greenery, and transporting home windows will separate the inexperienced oasis from the energetic rail line whereas providing a coherent design language to the general route. ‘The entry factors to the park, at Camden Gardens, Royal School Avenue, Camley Avenue, and York Means, shall be totally accessible, with a possible fifth extra stair at St Pancras Means.’
Furthermore, part one will host a clear scenic elevate or stairs that can information guests by means of a tree cover onto a floating gantry, providing sweeping panoramas over the park and the Victorian railway viaduct. The challenge is predicted to ship 200 development and 116 new long-term jobs, introduce inexperienced areas for the capital, and strengthen its profile as ‘one of many world’s main customer locations’.
Now that planning permission has been granted, the Camden Highline charity is in search of monetary backers to come back on board to help the £14m price of the primary part of the challenge and get development work underway. 2025 is the aimed opening date for the primary part.
Camden Highline aerial view visualization © Hayes Davidson
‘I reside and work inside a couple of hundred meters from the Camden Highline and I see it as native stroll you are able to do with the household, becoming a member of up the canal and Coal Drops Yard right into a single loop. It will be a spot to go and stumble upon mates, forming a central backbone of the neighborhood. A small part of it threads by means of the personal residences of Camden however the longest a part of it serves a quantity of housing estates and components of London which don’t presently have any entry to native inexperienced area. I’m very enthusiastic about how the Camden Highline will convey Camden collectively by means of a wonderful, shared asset,’ mentions Lead Architect, Tatiana von Preussen of vPPR.
Camden Highline ©JCFO Artefact Wall
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challenge data:
identify: the Camden Highline
location: Camden, London
design crew:
lead guide: James Nook Subject Operations
structure: vPPR Architects
planting design: Piet Oudolf
artwork: Hew Locke
engagement: Avenue Area
lighting design: Speirs Main
railways: Tony Gee Engineering
engineering: AKTII
cost-modelling: Rider Levett Bucknall
sustainability: Atelier Ten
id & wayfinding: Pentagram
heritage: Genuine Futures
planning: Lichfields
development planning: Avondale Consulting
ecology and biodiversity: London Wildlife Belief
christina petridou I designboom
jan 21, 2023