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Christo's gates installation in central park lifts the gloom of a new york winter; thomas heatherwick's big bang stuns manchester; copper in architecture awards; browser; ave davey.New Yorkers are fiercely protective of Central Park, and that is why it took 26 years for Christo and his partner Jeanne-Claude to realize their visionary art work, The Gates. For the last two weeks of February, 23 of the 58 miles of pathways through the 840-acre park were spanned by fluttering panels of rip-stop nylon, supported from 7532 tall vinyl frames in the same marigold hue. The sketches that the artists sell to fund their different projects were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and have been published by Yale as a book, so there were no surprises in terms of form, colour, and deployment. The delight came - as it does with all these artists' projects — from the interaction of one simple idea with the physical setting and the unpredictable behaviour of people, weather, and light.