Great pics, and an impressive lighting system. Here's a more detailed look at the lighting: <a href="http://www.archlighting.com/projects/lighting-the-lowline_o" rel="nofollow">http://www.archlighting.com/projects/lighting-the-lowline_o</a>
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.
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.
Actually some plants need UV, which is why they needed to change the glass at the tropical island park:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort#Problems" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort#Proble...</a>