Park life: an ambitious temporary installation by Christo briefly animated the green swathes of New York's Central Park.(view) From: The Architectural Review | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Webb, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2005 EMAP Architecture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

New Yorkers are fiercely protective of Central Park, and that is why it took 26 years for Christo and his partner Jeanne-Claude to realize their visionary art work, The Gates. For the last two weeks of February, 23 of the 58 miles of pathways through the 840-acre park were spanned by fluttering panels of rip-stop nylon, supported from 7532 tall vinyl frames in the same marigold hue. The sketches that the artists sell to fund their different projects were exhibited at the Metropolita...