Vessel

This week on Dezeen, architecture writer Matt Shaw reflected on what went wrong with Heatherwick Studio’s Vessel, two years after the 16-storey viewpoint in New York’s Hudson Yards was closed. In an opinion piece for Dezeen, Shaw argued that the structure failed in its function as a public space because Heatherwick Studio and the developers

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The Vessel viewpoint at New York’s Hudson Yards has temporarily closed after a fourth person died by suicide after jumping from the Heatherwick Studio-designed structure. The attraction is currently closed after a 14-year-old boy jumped from its eighth floor last Thursday, just two months after the viewpoint reopened with new measures in place to prevent suicides. It

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Individual visitors will be banned from Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel attraction in New York when it reopens on Friday, four months after a third suicide forced it to close. The 46-metre-high viewpoint at Hudson Yards in Manhattan will reopen on 28 May with a raft of new measures to prevent people jumping. These include a buddy

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The 16-storey Vessel viewpoint designed by Heatherwick Studio for New York’s Hudson Yards development has been temporarily closed after a man reportedly committed suicide by jumping from it. According to the New York Times, a 21-year-old man named Franklin Washington jumped from the Vessel on Monday 11 January. It marks the third death by suicide

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Designer Thomas Heatherwick has defended the controversial Hudson Yards development in New York City, saying people “shouldn’t underestimate what it takes” to build public spaces with private money. Heatherwick, whose Vessel structure sits on a raised plaza at the heart of the Midtown development, addressed criticism of his project and the wider development in a

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