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The Delacorte Fountain  Letter from architect Simon Breines, June 28, 2001 ... The b/w reprint [below] is from my book, The Pedestrian Revolution: Streets Without Cars, published in 1974 by Random House. It shows a proposed development in Long Island City with my firm's concept of a water jet at the foot of Roosevelt Island. The color photo was taken by me some years later when George Delacorte financed a temporary demonstration which operated for several years until his death. The original idea was to install it permanently in relation to the proposed FDR Memorial which, unfortunately, was not realized. In my 1974 project, the jet pumps and chlorine filtration tank would have been below the surface of the water as indicated in the drawing and in conformity with the Lake Geneva jet in Switzerland, which Delacorte wished to emulate. ...
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