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Arcades
Ketcham, Diana | July 21, 1997 issue

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This article focuses on Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) memorial. The author says that entering the new FDR memorial feels like walking into a sacred place, a holy city. This impression is owing to the overwhelming presence of stone 4,500 tons of South Dakota granite roughly sawed into 31,000 blocks, the largest weighing thirty-nine tons and extending twenty-one feet. The distinctive atmosphere of Washington's newest presidential memorial is a tribute to the designer's mastery, rare among today's architects, of nonpictorial effects--the way stone walls intensify sound and scent, reflect light and seem to pull down the sky.

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MEMORIALS; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; SACRED space; HOLY, The; ARCHITECTS; WASHINGTON (State); UNITED States
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