WASHINGTON Architect Frank Gehry is revising the design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower near the National Mall because of objections that delayed the project.

On Thursday, Gehry's Los Angeles-based team proposed eliminating metal tapestries on the sides of the memorial square, along with some columns. The designers are trying to win approval from the National Capital Planning Commission. The federal panel rejected a design in April.

Three stainless steel tapestries depicting the Kansas landscape of Ike's boyhood home were part of Gehry's original design. With two removed, one long tapestry would remain as a backdrop for a memorial park. The site includes statues of Eisenhower as president and World War II general.

Eisenhower Memorial Commission spokeswoman Chris Kelley Cimko said the group hopes the changes help to move the project forward.

Even with the changes, some critics oppose the use of tapestries and columns in the memorial.

Justin Shubow of the National Civic Art Society said the Kansas landscape is unrecognizable in Gehry's design.

Eisenhower's family has opposed the large columns and the inclusion of metal tapestries, calling for a smaller-scale approach. The concept has received mixed reviews from civic art and planning experts who must approve the design for the project to move forward.

One concern has been preserving views of the nearby Capitol between the memorial's huge columns. The view corridor is wider under the revised design with fewer columns, the memorial group said.

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Published September 04, 2014

Architect Frank Gehry is revising the design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower near the National Mall after objections delayed the project.

On Thursday, Gehry's Los Angeles-based team will propose eliminating metal tapestries on the sides of the memorial square, along with some columns. The designers are trying to win approval from the National Capital Planning Commission. The federal panel rejected a previous design in April.

Three stainless steel tapestries depicting the Kansas landscape of Ike's boyhood home were part of Gehry's original design. With two removed, one long tapestry would remain as a backdrop for a memorial park. The site also includes statues of Eisenhower as president and World War II general.

Eisenhower Memorial Commission spokeswoman Chris Kelley Cimko said the group hopes the changes help move the project forward.

Eisenhower's family has opposed the large-scale columns and the inclusion of metal tapestries, calling instead for a smaller-scale approach. The concept has received mixed reviews from civic art and planning experts who must approve the design before the project can move forward.

One concern has been preserving views of the nearby U.S. Capitol between the memorial's massive columns. The view corridor is wider under the revised design with fewer columns, the memorial group said.

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As date to nominate for $50,000 UBC prize approaches, a chat with last year's recipient.

The $50,000 Margolese National Design for Living Prize is awarded annually by UBC's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to a Canadian who has made and continues to make outstanding contributions to the development or improvement of living environments for Canadians of all economic classes. Applications for this year's prize remain open until Oct. 1 and the criteria for who might make an excellent nominee are here.

Last year's recipient, Vancouver architect and urban designer Bing Thom, received the nod for his broad vision of place-making, as exemplified by the reshaping of Surrey City Centre from a generic swatch of streets to a dense matrix of stores, homes, office tower, public library, university and civic plaza. His other major works include the Chan Centre and Sunset Community Centre in Vancouver, the transformation of Washington, D.C.'s historic Arena Stage Theater complex, and Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas -- all of which have redefined the neighbourhoods they are built in. Next up, among other projects, is the eye-popping $335-million Xiqu Centre opera house in Hong Kong, scheduled for completion in 2016. Bing Thom met with Tyee contributor Adele Weder recently to discuss the implications of the Margolese Prize. Here are edited and condensed excerpts from their conversation:

Created by a generous estate gift made to the University of British Columbia by Leonard Herbert Margolese.

Awarded to a Canadian who has made outstanding contributions to the development or improvement of living environments for Canadians of all economic classes.

Prize Amount: $50,000 CAD.

Deadline for applying: Oct. 1, 2014

Eligibility: Nominees must be Canadian citizens still actively making outstanding contributions to the development or improvement of living environments for Canadians of all economic classes.

More on the award, including past stories by The Tyee, can be found here.

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ThomasGuerra, 29, is facing a charge of intentionally exposing a man to HIV His accuserclaimsGuerra had unprotectedsex with at least two dozen men in theFresno,California, area Prosecutorssay the landscaper was on a mission to spread HIV to as many people as possible

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A landscaper from California who claimed to be related to a civil rights leader has been accused of intentionally infecting at least two dozen men with HIV.

Spokesman Michael Giorgino said San Diegos attorney's office presented the court a complaint Thursday alleging Thomas Miguel Guerra, 29, intentionally infected a man with the virus that can cause AIDS.

According to prosecutors, Guerra was on a mission to spread the potentially deadly virus to as many people as possible.

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On Wednesday, members of the North Carolina Arts Council listened to the opinions of the residents on planning and design.

Two days later, the council came back with a blueprint based off local concepts.

On Friday at the Community Council for the Arts, a follow-up to the Corridors of Connectivity meeting where members of the North Carolina Arts Council and other groups presented some of their plans for the design of Queen and Herritage streets.

Landscape Architect Glen Walters gave a presentation based on some of the ideas of the citizens such as vibrant signs and walkways providing information about the African-American Music Trail.

I thought this week was really great and we have a good direction on the priorities of the city, Walters said. In all honesty, we werent as aware of the music history and we felt a lot closer to Kinston through the inspiration of the artists. Its inspired us to bring that in with our designs.

Chris Beachem, senior program director for creative economies at the North Carolina Arts Council, said the ideas were exciting, but implementing them could be a daunting task.

In the big picture, it takes a lot of money and time, so we have to find little side pieces and start on what we can do, Beachem said. I do a lot of work in Durham and people have said theres not much happening here, and then Ill say Were you here 15 years ago? There has been significant growth there and 15 years down the road, it will difficult for someone who hadnt been to Durham in 30 years to identify it because of the tremendous growth.

To a certain extent, I see Kinston moving in the same way. The progress made will be steady and people need to keep pushing and working. I believe in five years there will be significant change to South Queen Street and I would be very disappointed if thats not the case.

Kinston Mayor Pro Tem Joe Tyson attended the meetings and said it will take time for the project to come into fruition and nothing is set in stone.

I thought the meetings were productive, Tyson said. I liked the input from citizens, but everyone has to know this is strictly a plan. Hopefully, we can use this in the future to seek grant money for the future.

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On Wednesday, members of the North Carolina Arts Council listened to the opinions of the residents on planning and design.

Two days later, the council came back with a blueprint based off local concepts.

On Friday at the Community Council for the Arts, a follow-up to the Corridors of Connectivity meeting where members of the North Carolina Arts Council and other groups presented some of their plans for the design of Queen and Herritage streets.

Landscape Architect Glen Walters gave a presentation based on some of the ideas of the citizens such as vibrant signs and walkways providing information about the African-American Music Trail.

I thought this week was really great and we have a good direction on the priorities of the city, Walters said. In all honesty, we werent as aware of the music history and we felt a lot closer to Kinston through the inspiration of the artists. Its inspired us to bring that in with our designs.

Chris Beachem, senior program director for creative economies at the North Carolina Arts Council, said the ideas were exciting, but implementing them could be a daunting task.

In the big picture, it takes a lot of money and time, so we have to find little side pieces and start on what we can do, Beachem said. I do a lot of work in Durham and people have said theres not much happening here, and then Ill say Were you here 15 years ago? There has been significant growth there and 15 years down the road, it will difficult for someone who hadnt been to Durham in 30 years to identify it because of the tremendous growth.

To a certain extent, I see Kinston moving in the same way. The progress made will be steady and people need to keep pushing and working. I believe in five years there will be significant change to South Queen Street and I would be very disappointed if thats not the case.

Kinston Mayor Pro Tem Joe Tyson attended the meetings and said it will take time for the project to come into fruition and nothing is set in stone.

I thought the meetings were productive, Tyson said. I liked the input from citizens, but everyone has to know this is strictly a plan. Hopefully, we can use this in the future to seek grant money for the future.

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When the Rev. Robert Roethemeyer looks across Concordia Theological Seminarys campus, he sees little clumps of four or five trees, sometimes of the same species, amid a broad lawn.

He calls them sacred groves, and indeed, he says, that was how they were seen by the person who meticulously laid out the plantings on the 191-acre campus on the north side of Fort Wayne more than 50 years ago.

He had this idea that you could sit under this sacred grove and in the natural environment and reflect on the questions of life, says Roethemeyer, director of library and information services, has been the unofficial shepherd of the seminarys buildings and grounds for several years.

It bespeaks his vision of what the campus was about, a place for reflection and contemplation of the gifts of God.

The visionary for Concordias grounds was landscape architect Dan Kiley. And today, says Julie Donnell, a founder of non-profit Friends of the Parks, the Boston-born practitioner of Modernism is probably the pre-eminent American landscape architect of the last century.

Yet, she says, most area residents probably dont know that Fort Wayne houses one of Kileys major works. Thats why the Friends are spearheading a stop by a nationally touring exhibit conceived to mark the centennial of Kileysbirth in 1912 and plead for the preservation of his legacy.

The reason we are doing this is, very seriously, that we dont recognize these landscapes, and this is an opportunity for people to understand how beautiful they are and how important they are to our cultural heritage, says Donnell, who is also on the board of the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., organizer of the exhibit.

Featuring Kileys plan for Concordia among 27 of his more than 1,000 projects commissioned worldwide, the exhibit opens Tuesday at the Jeffrey R. Krull Gallery of the Allen County Public Library. Associated events are a reception and panel discussion with two Kiley experts at the library at 6:30 p.m. Friday and a Concordia campus tour guided by Roethemeyer at 10a.m. Saturday. All are free and open to the public.

The exhibit comes to Fort Wayne after appearing in Indianapolis and Columbus, two other Indiana cities with significant Kiley works. Some of his best-known landscapes include the Air Gardens of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Washington, D.C.s Benjamin Banneker Park and Independence Mall in Philadelphia.

Mark Zelonis, deputy director of environmental and historic preservation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, steward of a Kiley installation at the Miller House and Garden in Columbus, says Kiley created three-dimensional works of art in which, true to Modernist credo, plantings and structures work seamlessly together.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 7, 2014 ? Two projects designed in part by University of Virginia faculty members are among the 11 finalists for a major international landscape architecture prize.

Organizers of the eighth Rosa Barba International Landscape Architecture Biennale Prize, to be awarded next month in Barcelona, last month recognized three UVA School of Architecture faculty members ? Iaki Alday, Margarita Jover andTeresa Gal-Izard ? as outstanding designers.

The competition jury ? chaired by renowned Dutch landscape architect Michel Van Gessel, and including members from Australia, Spain and the United States ? selected the 11 finalists from among landscape architecture projects completed in the last five years by some of the leading architectural firms from nine countries.

Alday, Quesada Professor and chair of the Department of Architecture, and Jover, a lecturer in that department, along with their firm Alday-Jover, were honored for their landscape architecture design of The Park of the Meander of Aranzadi in Pamplona, Spain.

Gal-Izard, associate professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, contributed to a team that worked on another project in Spain, serving as a landscape designer and agricultural engineer with Batlle & Roig Architects, who designed and managed the reclamation of the Val d?en Joan landfill in Barcelona.

Other nominees for the prize include works located in Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some of the projects are already widely known, such as the High Line and Queens Plaza in New York and Quinli Park in China.

The Rosa Barba International Landscape Architecture Biennale exhibition and symposium opens Sept. 25 in Barcelona. The finalists will lecture on their work, and the winner will be announced during the three-day symposium.

Alday-Jover?s Aranzadi Park ? built into the meander, or bend, of the Arga River ? was recognized as a public space of extraordinary quality that balances the relationship of the river, local residents and the area?s agricultural heritage in a radically innovative way.

The park?s vegetation grows with the help of the river, while its gardens serve as orchards to boost local food production. The park?s spaces function as both contemplative and educational areas for local citizens.

The nomination recognizes a park that is still young, but that incorporates the historic vegetable gardens in the meander, or river?s bend. The park has been heavily tested through the highest flood in Pamplona?s history.

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