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Eisenhower Memorial Moves Ahead with Family Support

On September 21, 2016
by Deane

Gehry Partners

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, designed by Frank Gehry, moves toward completion.

Ten years of legislative battles over the Frank Gehry design for a memorial to President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C., have drawn to a close with an announcement today from Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), chairman of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, that the Eisenhower family will support Gehry’s design going forward.

In a letter to Secretary James A. Baker, III, a member of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission’s advisory committee, Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late former president, conceded approval of the proposal. “While some of us may have had other preferences in the past, all of us support your proposal,” she wrote. “We recognize that your recommendation offers a compromise, one which all Americans who loved the general and the president can support.”

Read the full story at Architect Magazine.

Eisenhower Memorial Earns NCPC Approval

On July 14, 2015
by Deane

Courtesy Gehry Partners/AECOM | View of memorial core and tapestry from Maryland Avenue, with Lyndon B. Johnson Department of Education Building behind the tapestry

Following a protracted battle with design revisions and family outcry over Frank Gehry, FAIA’s proposal for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower—now a joint venture between Gehry Partners and AECOM—the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) approved the final site and building plans [PDF] at a meeting held July 9. In the NCPC’s recommendation, the commission confirmed that the final memorial design “satisfies NCPC’s adopted site selection design principles” and that the approval “will not have a significant impact on the human environment.”

Read the full story at Architect Magazine. 

Institute Honor Awards: Architecture

On January 9, 2015
by Architect Magazine: Articles by Deane Madsen, Assoc. AIA

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The Broad Unveils the Veil and the Vault

On January 6, 2015
by Architect Magazine: Articles by Deane Madsen, Assoc. AIA

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Ehrlich Architects Wins the 2015 Architecture Firm Award

On December 10, 2014
by Architect Magazine: Articles by Deane Madsen, Assoc. AIA

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