Mr. Trump and Congress should be ashamed of themselves for approving this waste.
Can we build a few hundred miles of the wall?
Build a hundred foot tall Golf Club and be done with it.
Eisenhower was our first black President and didn’t get any credit. If Obama got credit for being black when his genes were only 50%, Ike with 25% should have gotten some black cred too!
Ike started the Civil Rights Movement that was high-jacked and perverted by LBJ.
I like Ike, but that cost is way too high. How about a nice statue?
The overarching issue is the deconstruction of the Mall. Washington’s formal design is mostly neo-classical. The Mall is no exception. The Smithsonian does have the Castle and the Arts and Industries Building, red brick Victorian structures that play well with their neighbors. Modernism, however, is slowly eroding the harmony of design. In my opinion, this started in the 1960’s with the National Museum of American History, which is ugly in the utterly characteristic 1960’s architectural fashion. It’s been downhill since then. The most recent museums clash architecturally with their surroundings. Too much — memorials as well as monuments — is being crammed into an already overbuilt space. The powers that be seem intent on destroying classical unity of design in favor of a collage of deliberately discordant elements.
Gehry has one basic design that he keeps re-using, and it is arrogant, ugly and dangerous. I’m not sure why anyone would hire him to design a doghouse.