Structural engineer and juror Leroy Callendar believes the pier can be reduced to an elegant frame rather simply. Leaving the frame as a pergola was a lovely and doable solution. And from a structural point of view, it is thoroughly sound. This process has opened my mind to some new ideas about the structure. The north wall of the structure, for instance, could have value as protection from the wind that would allow increased use of the park, he said.
Bone diagnoses the traditional green park urge as a distinct opposition to change of any sort.
We have become a kind of retrograde city in that way, and we are living in the past. Focusing solely on a green park, Bone insists, is unworkable at this point in the city s history. The idea of a pure park environment is for our time in this city unreasonable, he said. We know, however, that diversity will always succeed. In Berlin, for site of their choosing anywhere on the East River.