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New York City is known for its expansive views: Nothing approaches the modern sublime quite like taking in the Manhattan skyline from a Brooklyn rooftop. However, the city does not offer a comparable experience with regard to the natural world. Beautiful as Central Park is, the experience of nature one finds here is cozy and personal, not breathtaking in the manner of the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n

For most New Yorkers, this isn\u2019t a problem \u2014 but Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu feel differently. Their radical conceptual proposal would turn America\u2019s favorite urban park into a vast wilderness, complete with mountains, and surrounded with 1,000-foot mirrored walls that would extend its vistas literally to infinity.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur proposal is a hybrid multi-functional mega structure,\u201d explained the designers in a statement. \u201cNot by building up, but by digging down, it reveals the bedrock (mountain) that was hidden under Central Park, and creates space along the new cliff. The ambition is to reverse the traditional relationship between landscape and architecture, in a way that every occupiable space has direct connection to the nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mirrored walls around the perimeter of the park constitute the fa\u00e7ade of a \u201chorizontal skyscraper.\u201d Inside this 1,000-foot-tall, 100-foot-deep \u201cmega structure,\u201d the architects plan to place residences, which will enjoy completely unobstructed views of the park.<\/p>\n

Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu claim that their proposal would make Central Park accessible to more people, noting that the park currently is only convenient for the fraction of the city\u2019s residents who live or work in the area. The massive housing capacity of the project would ensure that more people than ever before would inhabit parkside residences.<\/p>\n

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Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu\u2019s design was imaginative enough to earn them first place in eVolo\u2019s<\/a> 2016 New York Skyscraper competition. Indeed, it isn\u2019t every day that one gets the chance to contemplate what it would be like to bring the spaciousness of Yosemite to America\u2019s most populated county.<\/p>\n

All images courtesy of eVolo<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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