News

Thursday, May 3, 2012

National Mall ready to take on new look

Trust for the National Mall Names Design Jury

Trust for the National Mall Names Design Jury

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Washington Business Journal

 

The Trust for the National Mall, the nonprofit created by developer Chip Akridge to improve the condition of the Mall, has named an eight-person jury that will judge its design competition to overhaul three sites on the Mall.
 
The jury started three days of deliberations to determine lead designers who will be asked to participate in Stage II of the competition. The names of those selected will be posted at 9 a.m. Oct. 26.
 
Since the Trust launched the competition Sept. 8, more than 1,200 designers and design teams from 10 countries and 30 states have registered for the National Mall Design Competition. Fifty-eight eligible lead designers made submissions for Stage I.
 
The designers have been asked to redesign Union Square at the foot of the Capitol, the Washington Monument grounds and Constitution Gardens near the Lincoln Memorial.
 
The members of the panel are:
·  Alpha Blackburn, president & CEO of Blackburn Architects and an architect, artist and community advocate
 
·  Ethan Carr, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a landscape architect, historian preservationist and author
 
·  Benjamin Forgey, former architecture critic of the Washington Post and author of Design Perspectives in OnSite magazine, the commercial real estate magazine of the Washington Business Journal. Click here to read his columns from OnSite.
 
·  Michael Gericke, partner, Pentagram NYC and a graphic designer
 
·  Craig Hodgetts, professor of architecture at UCLA; creative director, Hodgetts & Fung Design and architecture
 
·  Thom Mayne, founder and principal, Morphosis; distinguished professor of architecture, UCLA, and a Pritzker Prize laureate
 
·  Elizabeth Meyer, associate professor of landscape architecture, University of Virginia
 
·  Harry Robinson, principal of TRG Consulting Global and dean emeritus and professor of urban design at Howard University's College of Architecture and Planning
 
Click here to view the original story.