Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

The Four Freedoms Memorial was built between 1973 and 1974 by the American architect Louis I. Kahn for the southern headland of Roosevelt Iceland (New York City) is designed as part of a memorial park (Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park ). It should be the four freedoms ( Four Freedoms ) remember that President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed as the foundations of a lasting democratic order in his State of the Nation 1941. Roosevelt speech on the eve of the American entry into the Second World War was groundbreaking and has influenced, among other things, the establishment of the United Nations and the conception of the UN Human Rights Charter.

By the death of the architect and the appointment of the then governor of New York, Nelson A. Rockefeller, one of the main supporters of the project, in the office of U.S. Vice-President, the project was shut down. Only in the year 2010, it was again taken up and implemented according to the plans Kahn. On 24 October 2012, the park was opened to the public.