Ua hoʻokumu ʻo New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg i kāna mau hōʻoia ma ke ʻano he mea makemake kiʻi i ka wā mua ma hope o kāna koho balota ʻana i ka makahiki 2002, ua hoʻolei ʻo ia i ke kaumaha piha o ke kākoʻo o ke kūlanakauhale ma hope o "The Gates," e nā mea pena ʻo Christo lāua ʻo Jeanne-Claude.
Me ka pilikia o ke kūlanakauhale i ka hāʻule ʻana o ka hoʻokele waiwai a me ka hopena o ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana, ʻo ka manaʻo o ka hoʻopaʻa ʻana i ka Central Park me nā mile o nā ʻīpuka ecstatically saffron-colored e like me ka ʻaoʻao. Akā, ua hoʻoikaika ia i ka mākaʻikaʻi, a ua hāpai paha i ka manaʻo o ke kūlanakauhale maopopo ʻole.
ʻEono mau makahiki ma hope mai, ʻoiai ke alo hou nei ʻo New York i nā manawa hoʻokele waiwai paʻa ʻole, ua hoʻomaka ke kūlanakauhale i kahi papahana kiʻi lehulehu nui, ʻo ka New York City Waterfalls.
Ua kūkulu ʻo Olafur Eliasson, ka mea pena Denemaka-Icelandic, i ʻehā wailele - 90 a 120 kapuaʻi ke kiʻekiʻe - ma ke kahawai Hikina, ma nā kahakai o Brooklyn a me Manhattan. ʻO nā ʻāpana he mau hoʻonohonoho manawaleʻa a e lawe ʻia i lalo i ʻOkakopa.
"ʻO lākou nā koena o kahi ʻEdena mua, nā hōʻailona nani a me nā hōʻailona o ka wā kahiko ʻole o ke kūlanakauhale ʻaʻole i loaʻa i ke kūlanakauhale," i kākau ai ka mea hoʻohewa no ka New York Times.
Manaʻo ke kūlanakauhale - me ka conservative, e like me ka ʻōlelo a ke kūlanakauhale - e hoʻonui ka wailele i $ 55m i ka hana waiwai no nā ʻoihana kūloko a me ke aupuni.
Loaʻa ka hopena nui mai "Gates," i lawe mai i ke kūlanakauhale a me kāna ʻoihana i kahi $ 254m i ka loaʻa kālā a me nā ʻauhau. Manaʻo ke kūlanakauhale e huki nā wailele ma kahi o ka hapaha miliona mau mea nānā.
Ua ʻike mua kekahi mau ʻoihana kūloko i kēlā hoʻonui. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Travis Noyes, ka hope pelekikena o New York Water Taxi Tour, he 45,000 mau mea i hoʻopaʻa mua ʻia, ʻo ka hapa nui mai nā hui honua, no ka huakaʻi waʻa o nā wailele. Ua hoʻohui pū ka hui i nā huakaʻi ahiahi o ka pule e hoʻokipa i ka hoihoi kūloko.
ʻOiai ua hoʻohewa ʻia ka pāhana mai ka lehulehu ma muli o ke kumukūʻai kiʻekiʻe o $15m, ua uku ʻia ʻo ia no ka aneane āpau e nā haʻawina pilikino a hui.
Ma luna o ka $15m, nui nā kākā'ōlelo o ka papahana i hāʻawi i kā lākou hana, me kāna luna kūkulu hale, ʻo Tishman Construction Corporation. ʻO Bloomberg LP, ka hui media i hoʻokumu ʻia e Mr Bloomberg ma mua o kona lilo ʻana i kuhina nui, ʻo ia kekahi o nā mea hāʻawi nui.
ʻO ka poʻe i pili i ka papahana e ʻōlelo ana kona kūleʻa e pili ana i ka hoʻohui ʻana i ke kākoʻo logistic o ke aupuni kūlanakauhale a me ke kākoʻo kālā o nā mea hāʻawi. Ua koi ʻia ka ʻae ʻia mai ke kūlanakauhale ʻo New York a me ka mokuʻāina, nā mea nona nā kahua i manaʻo ʻia, a me nā ʻae koi ʻia mai 30 mau keʻena aupuni.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Susan Freedman, ka pelekikena o ka Public Art Fund, kahi hui waiwai ʻole e kākoʻo ana i ka hana noʻeau o New York City: "He papahana makemake nui loa ia, a manaʻo wau ua ʻike mākou inā loaʻa kahi manawa e lawe ai i kekahi mea o kēia. scale, ʻo ia ka manawa e hana ai. "
ʻO Ronald Daitz, he hoa hana ma New York law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, nāna i hāʻawi manawaleʻa ma ke ʻano he ʻōlelo aʻoaʻo o ka Public Art Fund no ka papahana, ua ʻōlelo ke ʻano o ka papahana i kekahi mau pilikia maʻamau. Aia kekahi o na wailele ma ka Mokupuni o Kiaaina ma ka hikina o Manhattan a ua hoohana mua ia ma ke ano he kahua kaua, a ua pono ka papahana e hoolimalima i kekahi kanaka akamai no ka nana ana i ka wahi no na pu i kanuia. "ʻAʻole wau i manaʻo i ʻike kekahi i ka paʻakikī," wahi a Mr Daitz.
Ua hana ʻo Christo ma mua o ʻelua mau makahiki e hoʻokumu i "Gates," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Ms Freedman, no ka mea, ua noʻonoʻo mua ʻo ia i ka papahana i ka wā i manaʻo ai nā alakaʻi o Central Park i ka hoʻihoʻi ʻana i ka paka ma hope o nā makahiki o ka mālama ʻole ʻana. ʻO ka ʻokoʻa, hōʻike nā wailele i kā lākou zeitgeist ma o ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka ikehu hou a me ka hoʻolaha ʻana i ke kaiapuni kūlohelohe.
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He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- One of the waterfalls is on Governor's Island east of Manhattan and formerly used as a military base, and the project needed to hire an expert to screen the area for buried artillery.
- “It was a wildly ambitious project, and I think we knew that if there was ever a time to take on something of this scale, now was the time to do it.
- With the city suffering from an economic downturn and the aftermath of terrorist attacks, the idea of lining Central Park with miles of ecstatically saffron-colored gates might have seemed beside the point.
