Maya Lin's redesign of Queen Ann Square is being pushed through the Newport City Council by the NRF and the Mayor despite the outcry of the public.

1. Maya
Lin
Redesign
of
Queen
Anne
Square
Park
Bad Process!
Bad Faith!
Bad Design!

2. Bad Process!
“Findings
suggest
that
controversies
are
most
likely
to
erupt
over
abstract
art
placed
in
relatively
small
cities…
This
is
especially
true
when
the
community
is
not
asked
to
participate
in
the
project
in
any
meaningful
way.”
Steven
J
Tepper
Princeton
University
Center
for
Arts
and
Cultural
Policy
Studies

3. Who’s Involved? [Bad Process]!
Maya
Lin
The
celebrity
designer

4. Who’s Involved? [Bad Process]!
Pieter
Roos
The
Salesman

5. Who’s Involved? [Bad Process]!
Mayor
Waluk
The
Supporter

6. Who’s Involved? [Bad Process]!
City
Council
Representing
the
Charles
Duncan
Naomi
Neville
Justin
McLaughlin
Public….
or
the
Donors?
Henry
Winthrop
Kathryn
Leonard
Jeanne-­‐Marie
Napolitano

7. Who’s Involved? [Bad Process]!
The
donors
Dismissing
the
detractors
with
a
wave
of
her
hand,
she
said,
"I
just
let
them
all
talk”.
-­‐Marion
Oates
Charles,
92,
known
as
Oatsie,
president
of
the
Newport
Restoration
Foundation.
NY
Times
Article
Nov
2011

8. Public Outcry [Bad Process]!
Public
Outcry…
falling
on
deaf
ears
Newport
Daily
News
Poll:
377
against
-­‐
only
43
in
favor!
one
of
the
largest
in
the
memory
of
the
Newport
Daily
News
60+
Letters
to
the
Press
and
counting…
running
at
10
to
1
against
Media
attention
AP
article
in
500
papers
from
BloombergBusinessWeek
to
Kansas….
NY
Times,
Providence
Journal,
Newport
Daily
News,
Newport
This
Week,
NewportPatch,
WRNI/National
Public
Radio

9. Public Outcry [Bad Process]!
“Plotting
and
planning
a
project
for
a
number
of
years
behind
closed
doors
is
a
poor
tactic
especially
when
you
try
and
roll
out
the
project
as
a
fait
de
complet.
The
NRF
and
City
could
have
gotten
it
right,
but
blew
it.”
-­‐
Andrew
Segal

10. Bad Faith!
“The
brutal
irony
is
that
the
foundation,
which
Doris
Duke
founded,
is
planning
to
do
something
to
the
square
which
would
be
antithetical
to
everything
its
founder
stood
for”
David
Clapp

11. $$$??! [Bad Faith]!
“How
was
a
$3.6
million
fundraising
budget
determined
prior
to
developing
the
design
enough
to
project
costs
for
construction
and
maintenance?”
Lawrence
Culter
–
Newport
Resident
“Something
doesn’t
smell
just
right
here.
Why
so
much
money
for
so
small
a
space?”
Mary
Weston
–
Newport
Resident

12. Mister Mayor [Bad Faith]!
Mayor
Waluk:
It’s
the
money
“We
have
close
to
10%
unemployment
in
Newport;
people
have
the
holidays
coming;
they
don’t
know
how
they’re
going
to
pay
for
gifts
and
things
like
that
and
put
a
turkey
on
the
table
for
Thanksgiving.
And
these
people
are
apposed
to
a
3.5
million
dollar
donation
to
enhance
a
public
park?”
Did
he
help
his
cause
with
that?

13. Hypocrisy [Bad Faith]!
“Queen
Anne
Square
stands
in
stark
contrast
to
the
Brick
Market
and
Long
Wharf
areas
and
America's
Cup
Avenue...
...these
efforts
were
‘out
with
the
old
in
with
the
new.’
In
contrast,
Queen
Anne
Square
celebrates
the
architectural
heritage
of
Newport
and
gives
Newporters
and
visitors
alike
this
splendid
open
parkland
to
experience.”
Excerpt
from:
EXTRAORDINARY
VISION
(2010)
Robert
P.
Foley,
A.
Bruce
MacLeish,
Pieter
N.
Roos
Doris
Duke
and
the
Newport
Restoration
Foundation

14. NRF [Bad Faith]!
“Miss
Duke
expended
more
of
her
own
personal
energy
and
direction
to
the
park
than
any
other
facet
of
her
Newport
endeavors…Efforts
by
people
who
never
knew
her,
and
care
less
about
her
sensibilities,
to
completely
desecrate
her
park
seem
incomprehensible.”
Peter
S.
Kent
Former
NRF
Director
worked
on
site
with
Doris
Duke
during
construction

15. Monument? [Bad Faith]!
Not
a
“structure”
anymore.
Structures
aren’t
allowed
by
the
deed,
so
now
they
are
calling
it
a
“monument.”
Really??
How
are
3
fake
foundations
and
artificial
chimneys
considered
a
monument????

16. The Deed [Bad Faith]!
Oh
right,
the
deed
says
no
structures…
“no
building
or
structure
temporary
or
permanent,
shall
be
erected
thereon”

17. Deceit? [Bad Faith]!
Really???
Intentionally
misleading
or
just
incompetence?
Without
the
blueprints
there
is
no
truth
to
any
model…

18. Takeover? [Bad Faith]!
Donors
trying
to
take
over
a
Public
Park!
“The
DDMF
will
become
a
self-­‐
supporting
friends’
organization
which
will
oversee
maintenance
and
administration
for
the
park
in
the
future.”
From
www.ddmf.org

19. Bad Design!
“There
is
really
nothing
to
the
proposal
except
three
fake
building
foundations,
so
remove
them
and
nothing
is
left
(and
no
battle),
but
why
the
millions?”
Lawrence
Cutler
American
Institute
of
Architects
Royal
Institute
of
British
Architects
Chairman
and
CEO
of
the
National
Museum
of
American
Illustration
in
Newport

20. 5-point Critique [Bad Design]!
From
the
man
who
made
her
famous:
“The
Lin
proposal
is
an
imitation
of
the
historic
past
-­‐
false
building
foundations
and
imaginary
quotations.
Newport
has
no
need
for
historic
imitations.”
Paul
Spreiregen,
FAIA
A
Five-­‐Point
Critique
–
11/1/11
the
expert
who
proposed
and
ran
the
competition
which
selected
Maya
Lin's
design
for
the
Vietnam
Veterans
Memorial

21. Nuclear Architecture [Bad Design]!
Nuclear
Architecture
“When
I
was
at
school
at
Cornell.
We
used
to
call
this
type
of
design,
Nuclear
Architecture.
The
rock
star
architect
would
come
to
the
site
or
perhaps
even
just
a
quick
helicopter
flyover.
Without
any
consideration
for
the
history
of
the
context
of
the
site
or
the
surrounding
area”
-­‐
Donald
Topias
11/9/11

22. Lonely?! [Bad Design]!
Maya
Lin
"It
was
really
lonely;
it
was
really
empty,
there
is
literally
no
place
to
be."

23. Lonely?! [Bad Design]!

24. Ohio [Bad Design]!
“The
Million
Dollar
Mistake”
“Green
Space
is
in
short
supply
and
high
demand
in
Athens
Ohio
and
other
communities.
Maya
Lin
pocketed
nearly
a
half
of
a
million
dollars
for
her
part
in
designing
this
useless
green
space
travesty.”
www.suckypublicart.com

25. Locals [Bad Design]!
“It
will
be
some
kind
of
Disney
Land
fake
in
the
middle
of
town”
-­‐Lawrence
Cutler
“Don't
cut
down
trees
or
tear
up
grass
or
roll
away
rocks
that
are
rich
with
beauty
and
call
that
kind
of
environmental
savagery
‘art.’”
-­‐Penelope
Hope
"We
owe
it
to
the
memory
of
Doris
Duke
to
enhance
the
park,
in
the
spirit
of
her
design,
and
NOT
redo
it
with
someone
else's
strange
and
meaningless
idea.”
-­‐Ed
Paul

26. Bad Idea!!
Take a Stand!!

27. Be heard!
Dec 14th 2011!