High Line RFQ Update

According to a Friends of the High Line press release, seven teams have been selected from 52 Request for Qualifications submitted for the reuse design of the elevated railway, as follows:

• Field Operations (James Corner); Diller + Scofidio + Renfro
• Zaha Hadid Architects; Thomas Balsley Associates
• Steven Holl Architects
• Latz + Partner; The Saratoga Associates
• Rogers Marvel Architects; Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
• OpenMeshWork.ORG: OpenOffice (Lyn Rice); Mesh Architectures (Eric Liftin); Work Architecture Company (Amale Andraos, Dan Wood)
• TerraGRAM: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates; D.I.R.T. Studio (Julie Bargmann); Beyer Blinder Belle (Neil Kittredge)

Two stages of proposals will follow, with the winner chosen sometime in the fall.