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A Look Inside the Lowline, NYC’s First Underground Park

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Great pics, and an impressive lighting system. Here's a more detailed look at the lighting: http://www.archlighting.com/projects/lighting-the-lowline_o

This is offtopic, but can anyone with design chops explain Bloomberg's thinking with their page's design? It's not traditional, but I think I like it.

There is problem with alignment also. For example, on my screen, the last picture is hiding half of the 12.

Does that not happen with the other numbers on your screen? Thought it was an artistic decision to have the pictures overlap the numbers.

now that you mention it, at least they didn't take the opportunity to make me click through at least 24 pages to see 12 pictures

it's quite bold, and I applaud the management for not shooting it down, especially considering their initial front page was very jarring to looking at. But they've refined the design quickly to get to where it is now.

The Specials page like the one OP posted particularly nice, and it's just an FU to the prevailing sterile flat white design. The irony is, there has never been better time to use dropshadow, gradients, and transparency via CSS. But nobody is using it.

> there has never been better time to use dropshadow, gradients, and transparency via CSS. But nobody is using it.

Just because you can do these effects doesn't mean you should.

I agree, but people are deliberately not using them at the expense of good usability because that's the trendy design.

Many people are using them, just more subtly than you might think. Projects like Google's material design may seem 'flat' to the lay person, but it's full of delicate transparencies, animations and shadows. It's leveraging the technology, but in a very understated way.

Examples here: https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/bottom-sheets....

yup that's a great example. It's definitely step it the right direction to neutralize some of the extreme flatness we've seen.

I love it. It's beautiful and dramatic without hijacking scrolling or doing anything else annoying (that I noticed). The project is fascinating, and is a few blocks from where I grew up - I can hardly wait for the chance to visit this.

It's a great testament to the how NYC has improved that this is even possible. In the 1980's, just the notion of doing something like this as a public park would be laughed out of the room.

I imagine this could be a prototype for growing food in tunnels on Mars or in the Moon.

Actually some plants need UV, which is why they needed to change the glass at the tropical island park:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort#Proble...

> Actually some plants need UV

Are you refuting someone or just want to point that out?

The article states that only infrared is removed, UV is kept

Ah, I should read more carefully

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