Kahn's FDR Four Freedoms Park Nears Completion
Almost 40 years after it was announced by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay, and Louis Kahn was named as its architect, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is edging toward the finish line. Earlier today, Record editors ventured out to New York City's Roosevelt Island to take a tour of the site with the park's executive director, Gina Pollara, and check on the progress. This will be Kahn's last project to be built as he intended; the drawings were complete upon his death in 1974. And it will be his only work in New York City. The park is slated to open this coming October.
Architect and park executive director Gina Pollara.
Owner's rep John Conaty, Sue Ann Kahn (Louis Kahn's daughter), and park executive director, Gina Pollara.
Architect and park executive director Gina Pollara.
Owner's rep John Conaty, Sue Ann Kahn (Louis Kahn's daughter), and park executive director, Gina Pollara.
For more information about Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, visit www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org.
To see past RECORD coverage of Four Freedoms Park, click here.