Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designing Riis Plaza, architects for the New York City Housing Authority took a hard but human look at how playground-parks are used, tested their ideas by interviewing many of the project's 7,500 residents, largely Negroes and Puerto Ricans...
...year-old Jacob Riis public-housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Lady Bird Johnson dedicated a new three-acre open space that is likely to be a trend setter for cities across the nation. Financed by a $900,000 grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation, Riis Plaza offers not one but four rooms to replace a sterile, downtrodden mall...
...their rims serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added so that even without grass the plaza is green...
Progression of Delights. Unquestionably, the plaza's most immediate triumph is its playground. Architect Simon Breines, who grew up playing stickball on the streets of Brooklyn, provided Riis Plaza children with a stupendous place to play. With Landscape Architect Paul Friedberg, he designed rough pyramids made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...
...short time" varies with the demand from $2.50 to $5 and inevitably has produced grumbling. "General Kinnard ought to put his foot down," complained one cavalryman last week. "Five bucks is too high. He oughta make three bucks the standard price." The plaint is, of course, misdirected. An Khe Plaza is a creation of the Vietnamese and run by the Vietnamese, albeit for Americans...