Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Urban projects won wide acclaim for American landscape architect

The Washington Post

Lawrence Halprin, 93, a legendary American landscape architect who designed the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial along the Tidal Basin and San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, marrying ecology and aesthetics in scores of the nation's urban spaces, died Oct. 25 at his home in Kentfield, Calif.