Gehry to design his first playground.Mayor Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. and Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe announced that world-renowned architect Frank Gehry will design the very first playground of his long career for the Battery, the historic public park on the southernmost tip of Manhattan. At the Battery Conservancy's 12th Annual WaterGazer Gala benefit attended by almost 600 leaders of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's cultural and business communities, Bloomberg and Benepe said Gehry's design for the playspace is expected to be unveiled later this year. $4 million has been earmarked for construction. The Battery Conservancy will raise the balance of the funds. The architect's work--internationally acclaimed for its daring exploration of form, singular combination of urbanity and whimsy whim·sy also whim·sey n. pl. whim·sies also whim·seys 1. An odd or fanciful idea; a whim. 2. A quaint or fanciful quality: stories full of whimsy. , and sensitivity to culture in our built environment--lends itself to this project: an original environment for children to explore and have fun. The one-acre playground will also feature a "green" comfort station with a green roof and vegetal vegetal /veg·e·tal/ (vej´e-t'l) vegetative (defs. 1, 2, and 3). veg·e·tal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of plants. 2. walls. The new Gehry-designed playspace will be part of the larger renaissance of the Battery, including the flourishing Battery Bosque Gardens; two new gourmet "green" and organic food kiosks; a Battery Bikeway bike·way n. A bicycle lane or path. connecting Manhattan's East and West sides; a new Town Green; renovations to Peter Minuet Plaza; and the planned restoration and expansion of historic Castle Clinton. |
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