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I'll second jnb's point. This space is 100% successful because the people in it say so. I was skeptical of the ice skating rink with the canopy, but these last scorching days have prooved me wrong. In grad school, we did endless studies in figure ground of the civic to religeous public spaces of so many medeival Italian cities. the fountain to Veterans plaza stands on the same ground, and is proof you don't need exquisit architecture to do this. Scale, proportion, activating the street level, and most importantly, population density will trump any architect's ego. Here's to hoping America will continue to build exquisit public spaces, if anything to counteract our tendancy to live on-line and apart.

by Thayer-D on Aug 12, 2010 2:37 pm • link • report

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