
Half a work of art and half a tourist attraction, The Vessel has been an instant success. Every day, especially on the weekends, hundreds of adventurers come to Hudson Yards to ascend the skies over Manhattan by climbing its endless stairs.
It’s a real eye-catcher in this new neighborhood on the west side of the island, which consists of five office skyscrapers, a shopping mall with a Spanish food market called Little Spain and an impressive cultural center whose facade moves on wheels.
The author of this monument is Thomas Heatherwick, responsible for other amazing structures such as the Olympic cauldron for the London 2012 games.
Although everyone already knows it as The Vessel for a while it had another much more literal title, New York’s Staircase.