Author Archives: Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod, AIA and senior architect, earned his Bachelor of Architecture at Roger William University with a Minor in Small Craft Design. He worked for firms in Massachusetts and Connecticut before joining Centerbrook in 2004.

Still High on the High Line

October 13, 2011 – 4:03 pm

I touched on New York City’s High Line in my last post; now I am landing on it with both feet. Set atop an abandoned, elevated rail line, it is the planet’s longest green roof, stretching nearly a mile and a half. It is a remarkable, idiosyncratic pathway that commences in lower Manhattan’s West Side, [...]

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The High Line and the Cunard Line

August 4, 2011 – 9:45 am

“Getting there is half the fun” was Cunard Line’s famous advertising slogan in the 1950s, intended to lure Americans away from flying across the Atlantic. At the time, its fleet could boast two of the finest examples of ocean liner transport, the RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth, which regularly traveled between Europe and [...]

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