Downtown Container Park Architects are super into making green structures out of giant recycled containers these days.
The sudden death in 1974 of Louis I. Kahn, the park's architect, and the city's slide toward insolvency halted the project for decades.
In the nineteen eighties, when the Central Park Conservancy began the long process of rescuing and restoring the park, the architect Gerald Allen designed new decorative paving that consisted of a circle of brick and bluestone around the fountain and another circle of brick and bluestone around the perimeter, keeping a wide swath of asphalt in the middle.
After Llewellyn Park, which architect Alexander Jackson Davis designed, it was Frederick Olmsted, of Central Park fame, who more than anyone else repeated and expanded upon the concept.
"Yes, this will be gone at the wall," answered his tour guide, Anthony Macari, a parks department architect.
(The title, "The Gates," is taken from the name used by the park's architects, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, for the openings in the stone wall surrounding it).
One disappointed apartment seeker, Peter Kelly, a city parks landscape architect, said he had applied after learning in college about MetLife's progressive housing.
Sculpture Park Weiss/Manfredi Architects of Manhattan has been chosen as the lead designers of the Olympic Sculpture Park, an eight-acre site in Seattle.
The park's architects erected an obelisk commemorating the Durbars, and collected the monstrous likeness of George V and other former British overlords from around New Delhi and scattered them about the park.
Moreover, as we soon discover, raping and murdering the "stalwart gunslinger's girl" is an actual story line programmed by the park's architects for guests to act out, if they're into that sort of thing.
