Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island has just launched its third annual Sketch 4 Freedom contest, and Untapped Cities founder Michelle Young is a judge on the selection committee! Artists of all ...

The city commissioned architect Louis Kahn for the memorial, and in 1973 he began drawing up the plans for Four Freedoms Park. The park is Kahn’s only design in New York City, and it was the ...

FOUR FREEDOMS PARK IS NAMED FOR FDR'S SOBERING 1941 SPEECH ... AS FAMILIAR AS I WAS WITH CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS AND THE DESIGN, THERE ARE ALL THESE AMAZING THINGS THAT WE DISCOVERED AS WE BUILT ...

Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, can the rest of us appreciate the ... Lois’s memories are more specific. “He liked my drawings,” she says, recalling the pen-and-ink sketches she’d done ...

Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, on an island in the East River ... Vanden Heuvel, who was there that day, said Kahn completed the drawings a year later. That same year, Rockefeller became vice ...

The installation is part of a new project by Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, titled Art X Freedom, which sees artists commissioned to create site-specific works that investigate issues around social ...

it was difficult to adhere to a design intent and set of drawings as well as specifications that were developed in 1973. One judge lauded the team's success in "adhering to [the park's] original ...