The 1,131-foot-high cantilevered open-air observation deck at 30 Hudson Yards called “The Edge” is the highest outdoor sky deck in the western hemisphere. This mixed-use building is part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment project and features a 7,500-square-foot view of Manhattan’s skyline, surrounded by a 9-foot-tall frameless glass wall and a windowed floor. Jutting out 80 feet from the side of the building on the 100th floor, it gives you the feeling of floating in the sky. With 360-degree views, New York has never been experienced like this before. At the entrance to the elevator access, is a two-floor museum-style client experience centre, with detailed three-dimensional exhibits describing how this transformation of building over top of the old rail yards took place. Eventscape was contracted to engineer, fabricate and install these features with accompanying graphic panels as well as a perforated backlit metal ceiling of the map of Manhattan in the 4th floor ticketing area. Multiple materials used in these features include: metal, glass, acrylic, polycarbonate, wood, lighting and ceramic printing. All features were staged in the Eventscape facility prior to assembly on site.

PROJECT: HUDSON YARDS “JOURNEY TO EDGE”
DESIGN: LAB AT ROCKWELL GROUP
ARCHITECT: KOHN PEDERSON FOX
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: GILBANE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
DEVELOPER: THE RELATED COMPANY
PHOTOGRAPHY: AARON FEDOR, COURTESY OF RELATED COMPANY
BUILT BY EVENTSCAPE, MARCH 2020