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When I left Vessel, I asked Ross about the emotions he was feeling after his inaugural trip. «I can say this with absolute certainty: once I walk up and down in that thing,» he said with a thumb pointing back, «he will want to do it again and again, and again.»
What Ross expects is that Vessel (who will be open every day of the year) becomes the architectural pearl of New York City. And just like a pearl, the structure is wrapped in a shell of skyscrapers and cushioned by hundreds of plants and trees. The vegetation will be courtesy of Thomas Woltz, The owner of the Alabada landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz. «It is not easy to build nature within a space that is so inhospitable,» says Woltz in reference to the slab of the island that is Manhattan. «But we did it, in large part, using plants that were native from New York throughout the space.»
Overcoming the fact that Heatherwick designed the structure, there is a tangible connection that can be done between Vessel and Thomas Heatherwick as a person. His firm, Heatherwick Studio, has 200 architects to design buildings worldwide (among his most prominent projects are Learning hub in Singapore; A complex for Bombay Sapphire in Hampshire, England, and the Zeitz Mocaa in Cabo Cabo ). Thomas Heatherwick, however, is not an architect. He is a designer. This can be said about the design you just completed. It is a huge steel structure in Manhattan that does not house residents or offices. But many wonder if the city needs it. It is a fact that important government subsidies were granted for Hudson Yards to be carried out (New School researchers in New York concluded that the city will spend $ 5.6 billion dollars from taxpayers on the project).