Gothamist: Frank Gehry Designs His First Playground for NYC

travelers2

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:46:41 -0500

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guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:04:24 -0500

if you look on the master plan for rebuilding The Battery, the playground is on the far right edge of the park, along State St, the one that runs between Bway and the SI Ferry. http://thebattery.org/rebuilding/masterplanmap.html interesting that $4mm fell in Gehry's lap for building this while the Rockwell playground is left raising all $2mm privately. greg from daddytypes

guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:58:04 -0500

I meant Gehry in general. And how in the hell can it be hip or unhip to love or hate an architect? Jeez people, you're manufacturing things to bitch about now. robin.g

guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:48:37 -0500

The people who really hate Gehry are losers with inferiority complexes bigger then his buildings.

guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:36:35 -0500

robin.g, I'm pretty sure that picture is a Gothamist photoshop job of a Ghery building with a slide. There are no pictures of the playground as far as I can tell.

guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:26:57 -0500

I must have missed the memo. It's hip to hate Kerouac and Gehry now?

schmod

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:04:32 -0500

When will people learn to differentiate between "good" modern architecture, and the stuff that's absolute garbage? Personally, I'm a big fan of the Hearst building, and generally anything that looks clean and new (but not sterile, like Gehry seems to prefer)

Spiritof76

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:42:00 -0500

An original Gehry design will complement the uniqueness of the Battery Complement, my foot. Gehry never complements anything. It's always, "I'll design what I design, which is more of the same, and too effing bad if you don't like it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need another five beers before I go back to my drawing board."

guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:36:37 -0500

Hideously ugly. And I'm a fan of modern design! robin.g

guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:52:15 -0500

Does anyone know the cross-streets of the playground-to-be?

guest

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:45:45 -0500

i am always dumbfounded that this guy keeps getting projects... it's a real shame for our city.

Toby

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:10:15 -0500

And Frank Ghery can't even design playgrounds well.