The WWI Memorial’s two design concepts, revealed

At this Thursday’s [Commission of Fine Arts] meeting, The Cultural Landscape Foundation President and CEO Charles A. Birnbaum argued that any significant changes made to Pershing Park should be made with close scrutiny. 

This is due to the park’s eligibility to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, having been designed by award-winning landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg, whose previous projects include New York’s Battery Park City and Minneapolis’ Peavey Plaza. According to Birnbaum, it is also the only Friedberg project with a planting plan by D.C.-based landscape architects Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden.