New A Park, Over A Freeway, Inward Seattle. That's A Mighty Prissy Thing, Too It's The Descendant Of Cardinal Common Inward Novel York
as well as that all resulted from people seeing the ordinary freeways... as well as thinking, hey, why non comprehend that upwards alongside something prissy to await at, as well as a prissy common to convey trees dorsum into the city?
It worked inward New York City on the East River Drive, as well as inward Boston over the Big Dig, as well as inward Chicago alongside the Millennium park
inward 1966 Lawrence Halprin wrote the mass Freeways, his followup to Cities. He knew something virtually cities, every bit he grew upwards inward Brooklyn, as well as was a sandlot baseball game star every bit a kid
One of his academy classmates was Philip Johnson (oh, yeah, I dig architecture too) as well as he went as well as visited Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio inward Wisconsin subsequently graduating. Well, FLW was taught landscape architecture yesteryear the Olmstead boys, their dad was the genius who pose out Central Park inward New York. His sons did neat travel too, but, in all probability volition hold out known most for educational activity FLW, who went on to create beautiful things, as well as getting dorsum to my story, inspired Halprin.
After university, he was a Lt on a destroyer, the USS Morris, during WW2, as well as recuperated from a kamikaze develop on inward San Fran, which he adopted every bit his home.
He is best known for the primary landscaping programme for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair including the innovative elevated monorail from downtown to the park, as well as the landscape programme for the West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II, Ira's Fountain inward Portland, as well as Freeway Park inward Seattle... which reclaimed the interstate five right-of-way every bit a park.
https://tclf.org/lawrence-halprin-designer-one-most-important-urban-spaces-renaissance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Halprin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_Park
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lulek/22338891201/
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Freeway_Park.html