Not only will birds hit the glass, people will deface it into infinity too. Not mention that it would become a breeze-less solar oven and the perfect place to explode a bomb, generating shock-waves that knock out everyone/thing while destroying ear-drums. I cannot say it is conceptually stupid, persay, and I would not insult the 'imagineers' behind this idea, but, um, the good thing about drawing-boards is that you can always go back to them. You really can't dig your way towards this being something viable. I imagine many-a-NYCer who've been smoking joints in the park had similar 'good ideas' from time to time, which nature promptly let evaporate into the ethereal brain box we all have labeled "What the hell was I thinking!? LOL." They might as well build a cave-system or bunker under the bedrock itself, which can be secured and monitored, and activate the space as a reprieve from summer's heat and/or a giant subterranean forest or farm-scape. Double down, don't dig-down, dudes.

Neither this article nor the linked article says who hosted the (contest/RFP/day dream) that this proposal won. This is a silly idea either way. "Let's dig to below sea level and then create 1000 ft tall walls that still somehow allow a beautiful sunset at normal hours. Also, we could totally host the Hunger Games here."

I don't understand how digging is going to make it available to more people.

madness

Idiotic.

that is just plain ugly

I don't understand how digging is going to make it available to more people.

This seems to be more of a contest about conceptual design rather than an actual proposal, which is good because these two designers are pretty clueless. For one, the statement that "only a fraction" of people are able to enjoy the park is ludicrous. For another, their "relocation" plan for tons of soil is to just kinda dump it into the surrounding city blocks. I think this was more an exercise isn conceptualizing the use of space rather than something someone actually thinks could work.

I thought this was an Onion article. It's that ridiculous.

Why exactly is it, that only a 'fraction' of people can enjoy it now? And how is it that many more would be able to do so it if it were excavated? Just wondering.

Added benefit-- When Manhattan floods central park will become central lake.

what a stupid idea. The 'skyline' from within the park is one its loveliest features...

Add in some dinosaurs and this idea could work.

From absolutely every point of view (ecological, aesthetic, moral, ethical, economic, and rational) this has got to be the worst, most preposterous proposal ever made. I only hope the people who were responsible were trying to be satirical the way Jonathan Swift was in his "Immodest proposal." If they were serious, well they really need to seek help. I don't think even Trump could have come up with a stupider idea. (Who also, by the way, seriously needs to seek mental help.)

Leave it up to man to ruin something already perfect. So basically you want to build a giant terranium where animals and humans will be trapped in a highly reflective (READ HOT) environment. How much, pray tell, will it cost to keep this highly reflective (bird killing) wall clean so that the "illusion" can be maintained. What will the illusion look like from the outside? Why don't we just enjoy the reality...I suppose later we will have to add admission fees (thus negating the access argument) to cover the costs of maintaining the glass....no thank you!

I love this idea, its a perfect place where we can hold the first hunger games when Trump wins the white house. He'll be able to watch from his window. Its perfect!

nice water pumps there

Great idea! "Build" a park that no one is allowed into!

What a waste of money and effort. Just because you CAN do something does not mean that you SHOULD do something. It's as though the human race if running out of things to screw with...

It can get to over 127 degrees on a baseball field in a stadium shaped like a bowl because the heat is trapped in an area. Now add mirrors to that and magnify the summer sun inside a walled area and not much life would survive the burn.

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It's like putting ketchup on filet mignon, you could but doing so would ruin it.

The cost of cleaning the glass walls alone will bankrupt the city.

This is by far the most disappointing and stupid idea I've ever seen on this sight....or really anywhere. Hahaha

how will this make more people enjoy the park? seems like a waste of money.

Attack on Titans... It is happening!

Central Park was co-created by Fredrick Law Olmsted ... considered to be the Father of Landscape Architecture... why destroy it?

What a HORRIBLE idea! Man's destruction of nature carried to the ulitmate!!!! Cantral Park in its current form is very very important to the citizens of New York's vast artificial environment. Even if the final result gave access to nature, the destruction during the work would deprive people of much needed access.

No wonder our country is going broke! whomever came up with this idea needs to re-think priorities. I spending money on this scheme (which will no doubt put lots of 'dough' in the pockets of the perpetrators) really in the best interests of the PEOPLE of the area or will it actually do what most similar grandiose schemes like this one accomplish = make the rich richer??? Bah humbug!

A city park is meant to resemble a large garden or maybe if large enough a pastoral scene not a dramatic wilderness landscape. I'm sure this is a joke.

Blech. And I have no idea what they mean that only a fraction of people can enjoy it. Do they mean that only the people in the buildings surrounding it have a view? What about just walking into the park? There are tons of people just walking around, enjoying it. Looks like this glass wall c**p would inhibit just walking in you'd probably have to walk through some tunnel and arxhway and then some paid ticketed turnstile deal to get in. No, please don't make NY into a Dubai . It's really cold and ugly looking. I hate it.

WHY? This is among the most stupid ideas of the century! It's not practical! It will cause irreparable damage to the general ecological balance of the park! And it smacks of greed by those who want to physically build it!

Stupid dumb idea.

What about all of the people and animals who need that easy and accessible entrance/exit to and from the park? This was designed without thinking about actual user usage at all.

To me the natural beauty of Central Park is perfect. How many birds would die flying into the glass? No, just no,

Bedrock? Wasn't park of New York literally built on trash?

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Interesting concept, but I don't think it will be put to practice. My only concern about this idea is that I haven't read anything about the cast of shadow and the available sunlight that would reach throughout the lowered park.