Notre Dame's School of Architecture
cosponsored a contest to design a $50 million Millennium Memorial
gate in southeast Washington, D.C. The winners were selected and
a design refined, but the government of the District of Columbia
has put the project on hold indefinitely.
Organizers hoped to break ground
in 2003 on the project, which would entail a 78-foot-tall pavilion
with arcade and three levels of exhibition space. The memorial
is intended to commemorate U.S. contributions to the last thousand
years. It would be located at Barney Circle on Pennsylvania Avenue
SE near the Anacostia River.
The nonprofit American Urban Design
Foundation is committed to raising the money for the gate's construction.
But in August a city official told the Washington Post
that the district would have to pay to prepare the site, and it
doesn't have the money budgeted.
