NICARAGUA PART FIVE

SITE PLAN

I WAS BROUGHT DOWN IN EARLY 2000 TO DO A MASTER PLAN FOR THE LAKE FRONT AND CULTURAL PLAZA WHERE THE POPE PAUL HAD AN OBOIST. WHEN THE POPE HAD SPOKEN 500,000 HAD GATHERED. HERTY LEWITES HAD BEEN ELECTED MAYOR AND WANTED AN ACOUSTICAL SHELL FOR FREE POPULACE GATHERINGS AND ENTERTAINMENT FROM THE SAME SPOT WHERE THE POPE HAD SPOKEN ON THE PLAZA. A CONCRETE EARTH MOUND WITH SEATING, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR REVIEWING SANDINISTA’S TROOPS: A MEXICAN ARCHITECT PEPE DID THE DESIGN. MY SCHEME WAS AN EXPLODING ONION. THAT WAS REFINED TO A FLAME REACHING SKYWARD.

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