New York City’s Roosevelt Island features a memorial park that was designed 40 years ago, by an architect (Louis Kahn) who died in 1974, according to a story in the New York Times. Just look a this place? It’s difficult to believe that Kahn wasn’t thinking of skateboarders when he designed this.
Next month, on that triangular plot on the southern end of Roosevelt Island, the four-acre Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park will open, a belated and monumental triumph for New York and for everyone who cares about architecture and public space.
Apparently, the NYT’s architecture critic Michael Kimmelman is already worried about skateboarders.
Preserving the site will be a challenge. The park is pristine to a fault. Policing graffiti artists and skateboarders must be weighed against the park’s freedom theme.
Someone might want to get down there to skate it before it gets completely shut down. Has Jaws dropped this 23 set yet? And just wait until it snows. . . . More images after the jump.
Look at that 23 set with two rails.
And those corners?
Scenic, yeah?
