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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms, located at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island. It was designed by the architect Louis Kahn.
History
President Roosevelt made his famous Four Freedoms speech to the United States Congress in 1941.
Roosevelt Island was named in honor of the former president in 1973, and at that time the park was intended to be included.[1] The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute raised funds for the park, and kept the project going over time.[2]
Louis Kahn was asked to design the monument in 1972, this turned out to be only two years before his own death. Four Freedoms Park is remembered as one of his last works,[3] he was carrying the finished designs with him when he died in 1974 in New York City.[4]
After Kahn's death, his designs were continued by Mitchell | Giurgola Architects, who kept to Kahn's original intentions.[5] An exhibition at Cooper Union in 2005 brought additional attention and helped to advance the project years later.[6]
Ground breaking took place in 2010, and the park is scheduled to open in 2012.[7] After it opens, Four Freedoms Park will become a New York State Park.[7]
Design
The Park stands at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island. Approaching from the north, the visitor passes between a double row of trees that narrow as they approach the point, framing views of the New York skyline and the harbor.[3]
A courtyard contains a bust of Roosevelt, sculpted in 1933 by Jo Davidson.[5]
At the point, the monument itself is a simplified, roofless version of a Greek temple in granite.[3] Excerpts from Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech are carved on the walls of this "room", which is open to the sky above.
The Four Freedoms speech has inspired and been included in additional works of art, such as Four Freedoms Monument, Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell), and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
References
Further reading
- Drawings from Cooper Union exhibition.
- New York Times Editorial on the Park.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park website.
- Article from The Architect's Newspaper
- ↑ "Memorial Park Honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt," William J. vanden Heuvel, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
- ↑ "Roosevelt Island: As No. 44 Arrives, a Park for No. 32?" Gregory Beyer, January 23, 2009. New York Times.
- ↑ a b c "An Elegy for a Memorial, and for the Man Who Designed It," Julie Iovine, January 9, 2005. New York Times.
- ↑ "For a Roosevelt Memorial, a Groundbreaking 36 Years in the Making," Sam Roberts, April 15, 2010. New York Times.
- ↑ a b "Its Quiet Optimism Maintained, Louis Kahn’s Roosevelt Island FDR Memorial Moves into Construction," Zach Mortice, August 14, 2009. AIArchitect.
- ↑ "Coming to Light: The Louis I. Kahn Monument to Franklin D. Roosevelt for New York City," 2005. Cooper Union.
- ↑ a b "Kahn's Four Freedoms Park Finally Breaks Ground," Alyssa Nordhauser, September 14, 2010. The Architect's Newspaper.