Tell the Park Service what you think of their design.
http://www.nps.gov/flni/pphtml/contact.html
Ummmm, what the hell is that thing. Is that the Islam Crescent? If so, why is it there?
Excellent work, again.
A crescent of maple trees is one aspect of the 2,000 acre "Crescent of Embrace" memorial site.
The competition was funded through the generous support of the Heinz Endowments and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The selected Memorial was designed by Paul Murdoch Architects of Los Angeles, California with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects of Charlottesville, Virginia. Specializing in architecture, urban design and interiors, Paul Murdoch Architects’ experience includes master planning, architecture and interior architecture for institutional, governmental, commercial and residential building types. Nelson Byrd Woltz provides a broad range of landscape architectural design services including town, corporate, residential and park planning in the United States and abroad.
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For the Murdochs, their design evolved all at once, they said, and nothing in it is more important than anything else.
The idea of the Crescent of Embrace, Murdoch said, is to be a gesture of healing and bonding. The crescent marks the edge of the land, which will remain largely untouched.
One of the important attributes of the winning design, Murdoch said, is that it allows the memorial to continually grow and change. The maple trees that create the crescent will be planted at just 15 or 20 feet tall. They won't reach maturity for 40 or 50 years.
"It will be open and evolving as long as it's there," he said. "Our memorial is not about offering explanation for what happened, but to allow people to come to terms with it."