{"id":2387,"date":"2007-06-07T07:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/keep_frank_gehrys_pervy_hands_off_my_childs_swingset.html"},"modified":"2007-06-07T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T15:41:53","slug":"keep_frank_gehr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/keep_frank_gehr.html","title":{"rendered":"Keep Frank Gehry&#8217;s Pervy Hands Off My Child&#8217;s Swingset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a city preoccupied with buildings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/56065\">this does nothing to diminish the overinflated cult of the starchitect<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Renowned architect Frank Gehry, famous for experimenting with novel building materials and exploding the boundaries of form, has signed on with the city to design a 1-acre playground near the Battery Park Ferry Terminal on the southernmost tip of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gehry, whose whimsical-looking concert halls and titanium-covered art museums are cultural landmarks, has agreed to work for free on what will be his first urban playground design. &#8220;People are asking us what it&#8217;s going to look like,&#8221; the parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe, said in an interview. &#8220;He said he doesn&#8217;t even know what it will look like yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The city hopes to begin construction on the playground late next year, Mr. Benepe said, and expects the space to be open for use in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the way he has exploded the concept of what performance arts buildings will look like, it certainly will be interesting,&#8221; Mr. Benepe said.<\/p>\n<p>Another renowned architect, David Rockwell, is also working pro bono to design a playground near the South Street Seaport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any prominent architect that wants to volunteer their time &#8212; we&#8217;d love to do it,&#8221; Mayor Bloomberg told reporters yesterday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a city preoccupied with buildings, this does nothing to diminish the overinflated cult of the starchitect: Renowned architect Frank Gehry, famous for experimenting with novel building materials and exploding the boundaries of form, has signed on with the city to design a 1-acre playground near the Battery Park Ferry Terminal on the southernmost tip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}