Reply To: Prospect Park Gateway Design winner – architects, of course

Really, are you kidding me? Repositioning stones is the award winner? So a couple of things:
1. trip hazard/liability
2. how do monolithic rocks moving on their own (a phenomenon found only on dry lake beds in California) have the slightest relevance to the textured landscape of NY?
3. if these are ‘movable’ to allow for emergency vehicles, what’s to stop people from moving them so they can haul their Winnebago into the park?
4. if the intent is to have emergency vehicles drive over the bronze entry at some point, what do you think the weight of an ambulance or fire truck will do to that material and the ‘grooves’ the rocks will slide on?
5. What about snow/ice build up/removal?
6. What happens when 3 year old Tommy decides to stick his fingers in the roller bearing when his parents aren’t looking?

This will never pass the approval process for the various planning boards.I have seen designs like this win awards but when it comes down to building it and providing construction details, they end up nothing like the proposal. 5 bucks says it will end up being a couple of boulders set into Pavestone pavers. Hoooray for architects!!
If I proposed this to my municipality, they’d laugh in my face.