The park is often mistaken as being designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, but does incorporate many of the philosophical ideals used by Olmsted when he designed Central Park in Manhattan.
As an independent architect Adler designed Central Music Hall in Chicago (1879), which was the prototype of theatres later designed by the firm of Adler and Sullivan.
If fully financed and realized, the plan could make Governors Island the most significant addition to New York's parks since Olmsted and Vaux designed Central and Prospect Parks.
The report argues that the UK is caught in a "failing cycle" of excessive local council control and poorly designed central government interference and recommends that decision-making be placed in the hands of local people.
The landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted had early brushes with the plant, which hurt his eyesight while he was a teenager; he recovered and went on to design Central and Prospect Parks with his partner Calvert Vaux.
I stayed to watch for a while, then explored medieval sculptures intelligently presented by the sculptor Richard Deacon on bases he designed in the central hall of the museum.
He designed a large central hall full of activity, above which offices, studios and restaurants would step back in a big hollow ziggurat – all stacked on top of a gargantuan basement, complete with supermarket, nightclub and parking for 1,800 cars.
The house he designed for himself in central London, now known as Sir John Soane's Museum, is crammed with objects and artworks collected in his lifetime and untouched in the 180 years since his death as per his will.
Mies's fictional counterpart is Rainer von Abt, and the house he designs remains the central conceit of the book, from where we move from bourgeois high living to Nazi invasion and beyond.
He seems designed by central casting exactly for the purpose of wielding his main artistic tool the towering, thundering 60-ton BOMAG Compactor.
The architectural firms Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem, which designed Grand Central Terminal for New York Central, designed the Yonkers and Poughkeepsie stations as well, which echo Grand Central's high ceilings and arched windows.
