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Twin Parks is a housing development in the Bronx, New York City. Its buildings were designed by leading architects, and were widely hailed as "the cutting edge of public design" when constructed in the early 1970s. The project, divided into Twin Parks West and Twin Parks East, consists of 2,250 apartments, three schools, and three day care centers; it is located in the central Bronx. The two segments of the Twin Parks development are located several blocks from each other in the East Tremont, Tremont and Fordham neighborhoods, with Twin Parks East situated adjacent to Bronx Park and Twin Parks West near Webster Avenue. The development is named after Bronx Park and Crotona Park, which also is nearby. Despite its early promise, Twin Parks was deemed a failure because the project was beset by violence and failed to curb neighborhood decline. It was the site of a fire that claimed 17 lives and injured 44 others on January 9, 2022. (en) |
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1971–1981; largely completed in 1973 |
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Scatter-site housing |
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The Architects Collaborative, Giovanni Pasanella, Richard Meier, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. (en) |
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Awards from the City Club of New York, the New York Society or Architects and Municipal Art Society (en) |
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East Tremont, Tremont and Fordham (en) |
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Twin Parks (en) |
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Private owners, New York City Housing Authority (en) |
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Twin Parks gets to the crux of a question that hovers, often unmentioned, over much architecture today: just how much the architect can do, or whether buildings by serious designers make much of a difference in the lives of people in neighborhoods like this section of the Bronx. (en) |
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