The Davis Center in Central Park, designed by Susan T. Rodriguez and Mitchell Giurgola, replaces the dilapidated Lasker Rink and Pool with modern facilities, enhancing public access and aesthetics. This new leisure facility integrates smoothly with the park's landscape, providing wheelchair-accessible pathways and restoring the natural flow of water around Harlem Meer. It aims to offer East Harlem residents the same recreational opportunities enjoyed by wealthier neighborhoods, encapsulating decades of efforts to rejuvenate and beautify this historically neglected area of the park.
The newly opened Davis Center undoes the clunky intrusion of Lasker and slips a large machine for leisure into an ovoid buffer zone between hillside and restored waterway.
Wheelchair-navigable pathways now meander amiably around the perimeter, across the roof, and even through the structure itself, linking up to a new boardwalk that skirts the Meer.
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