Louis Kahn's Four Freedoms State Park coloured with rainbow flag for Pride Month 2019
Graphic designer Fallon Kesicier has installed New York's "largest Pride flag" on the steps of the Louis Kahn-designed Four Freedoms State Park to celebrate Pride Month.
Large decals, or stickers, temporarily adorn the 24 granite steps that lead to the island's Four Freedoms monument on Roosevelt Island, which was designed by late American architect Louis Kahn in 1973.
Fallon Kesicier designed the Ascend With Pride installation for the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy ? the non-profit organisation that operates the park ? for this year's WorldPride in NYC.
Kesicier's colourful installation, billed as the city's "largest Pride flag", has transformed the steps into a backdrop ripe for photographers and Instagram users.
Photograph by Cory Antiel Every four steps feature one of six different colours of the LGBT+ Pride flag, originally designed and created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker. From the base of the steps at ground level, they appear as one large flag measuring 3.5 metres high by 30 metres wide.
Kahn, the architect for projects such as the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut, designed the triangular shaped park for the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. He died before the construction was completed almost 40 years later, following delays caused by funding and political issues.
Photograph by Cory Antiel
The conservancy noted Kahn's philosophy of inclusionary architecture that is apropos for this installation: "Design is not making beauty, beauty e...
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