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20 Bridges for Central Park
20
Bridges
for
Central
Park
20 Bridges for Central Park proposes a series of interventions inspired by the brick, stone and cast iron bridges that dot Central Park.
location
New York City
year
2013
Curator
Katherine Gass Stowe
Commission
Jumeirah Essex House
The original bridges by Olmsted and Vaux were built to make connections between landscapes and ease the intertwining of the Park’s footpaths, carriageways and bridle paths, allowing for the traffic of people and nature to flow over, under and through each other. 20 Bridges for Central Park extends this legacy by searching for other connections to be made.
20 Bridges for Central Park,
60”W x 50”L
Central Park Map
While some are conventional footbridges, others are more unexpected bridges, such as stepping stones over a creek or a ladder up a hill.
Process
The project connects existing landscape features in the park by bridging them through a family of radically new structures that vary in size and configuration but retain the same fundamental identity and logic.
Like the original bridges of Central Park these structures are meant to be innovative, beautiful and because they add to the existing repertoire in an unconventional manner, they underline an essential role of Central Park itself; that it is about connecting, people, places and nature.
Recognition
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