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March 14, 2018

NYC's $25B Hudson Yards will have arts center with a telescoping roof

  • When the giant shell closes it will turn an open-air plaza into a climate-controlled performance hall with 120-foot ceilings.
    • By DEEPTI HAJELA
    Associated Press

    Made of a steel frame covered by translucent panels, the shell rests on giant wheels that slide along rails to move it out to cover the plaza.

    NEW YORK — The city’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics in a rebuilt neighborhood of rail yards and industrial buildings never came to fruition, but the massive Hudson Yards project rising there now isn’t suffering from a lack of Olympic-size ambition.


     
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