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Title	BRYANT PARK
View	General view of the park, looking west over the Great Lawn
Notes	leisure
Work Type	formal urban park
Style/Period	Neoclassical
Creator Name	Simpson, Lusby
Creator Nationality	American
Major Design Aspects	won competition
Elements & Spatial Types	great lawn terrace fountain loose park chairs
Climate Type	temperate
Country	United States of America
City	New York
State/Province	NY
Dates	competition won 1933
Century	20C
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	6/30/1997
Subject Information	A 1920s period of decline, brought on by neglect and the effects of Sixth Avenue subway construction, prompted the Architects' Emergency Committee to open a 1933 competition for rejuvenation of the park to architects idled by the Depression. Lusby Simpson of Queens produced the winning design, and it was implemented within a year by the Parks Department under its new Commissioner Robert Moses, with Aymar Embury II serving as architect to the department. The design featured a 300 by 215 foot Great Lawn by Gilmore Clark, promenades planted with London plane paralleling the lawn. In 1936, a wrought-iron fence enclosure was added with cast-iron embellishments fabricated by New York's J.W. Fiske Ironworks. The landscape, based on the theories of the urbanist William H. Whyte, Jr., aimed at restoring good activity to the park. The landscape architects were Hanna/Olin Ltd., and the design of the park houses were executed by the architectural firm of Hardy Holzman Pfieffer & Associates. The new Bryant Park opened in 1992 after construction that included 84 miles of shelving in two levels of underground storage space for the library. The popularity of the new park confirms Whyte's findings in Street Life Project - What city people seek in public spaces are other people, comfort, and care, not seclusion and refuge. Source: www.bryantpark.org/html/history.htm
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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