NYC AIDS Memorial Park Designs: Apparently They All Sucked?

Did you enter the competition to design the AIDS Memorial Park in the “upper West Village,” at what they call “St. Vincent’s Triangle”? Did you pay that $50 entry fee, in the hopes to win the big $5000 prize (and, you know, design a park)? Well, you did not win. And neither did anyone else who entered, because Rudin Management, the developers, hated them all, even the rather lovely design chosen by the jury. They will be sticking with their extremely dull own plans. (The memorial has a classic New York history, with lots of angry community board meetings; if you want to dive deep, start here.) Anyway, THIS IS GOING TO BE AWKWARD, but you all lost.