Civic Park Design At Once Overly Detailed, Underdeveloped

“The proposal as it stands now … reaches too far, and eagerly takes on too much aesthetic responsibility, to succeed as anything resembling a master plan. By filling in as many design details as it does, it seems to foreclose the possibility of operating as a crisp, reserved foundation for other designers, artists and architects to build upon. At the same time, it is too conceptually weak to stand on its own.”