Ken Smith Workshop

One of the most visited New York City destinations due in large part to good design and sensitivity to sense of place-keeping x 1 / 6 2 / 6 3 / 6 4 / 6 5 / 6 6 / 6 Over the past two decades, New York City's Meatpacking District has undergone a dramatic shift from a historic working district to a destination leisure area and cultural hub, with an increase in traffic-related issues of vehicular volume, pedestrian safety, noise, and community relations.

Ad will collapse in seconds… A rendering (exclusive to New York) of the Tanks. Rendering: STUDIO V Architecture and Ken Smith Workshop Oil made the industrial world rich, and also sick. It built great cities and despoiled nature. And long after fossil fuels have finally been supplanted, their scars will remain, in lone smokestacks, shoreline ruins, and great industrial deserts. Even as cities clean up virulent sludge from disused plants, they must also cope with the relics of obsolete corporations.