Mia Lehrer, a Los Angeles landscape architect who helped prepare a master plan for the river in 2007, said Mr. Gehry’s involvement had distressed people wary of top-down directives, and raised fears that he would derail the plan by the Army Corps of Engineers just as it was gaining momentum.
Still, she said Mr. Gehry was welcome to join the fray. “He’s a creative dude,” Ms. Lehrer said. “So the answer is, ‘Why not?’”
— The New York Times
Perhaps to escape the local ire which his involvement with the L.A. River redevelopment has drawn, Frank Gehry talked to The New York Times about his hopes for the project and for his relationship with the community. "I’m doing something that’s going to be good and trying to be inclusive, and they are trying to cut me up before I even get out of the gate. That’s not nice. I don’t want to create a fight with them, but they should grow up," he said.
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Its sounds like the kind of bickering and power struggles that happen with every large community project.
"THEY should grow up" lol
with a track record of over the budget and under performing buildings, I would be concerned too. besides, where has fog showed any sympathy for public spaces?Will he try to sell some "structures" to be placed along the corridor, like wrinkled aluminum canopies or such?
For now, let's just wait to see the plan.
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