Art in America

Designs for three major New York parks reconfigure the experience of city life in the twenty-first century.

WATER CITY

Once finished, any change in the built environment has a way of settling in quickly to become the new normal. A new park or high-rise or bridge takes so long to build that we get habituated to its existence within months of its official opening, indeed sometimes days after the construction workers clear away the orange cones or peel the protective film off glass doors.
 
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