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“Kahn’s Memorial to FDR Finally Finds Home in East River,” on Louis Kahn’s design for the memorial to Franklin Roosevelt, Bloomberg, Oct. 13, 2012

“Top-Secret $510 Million Ground Zero Museum Wallows in Grief” * on design of below-ground museum in World Trade Center Memorial, by Davis Brody Bond, Bloomberg, 6/1/2007

“Beirut’s Forgiveness Garden, Slated for 2008, On Wartime Hold” considers the power of a garden design to reduce long-held animosities, by Gustafson Porter, landscape architect, Bloomberg, 8/17/2006

“Time To Scrap Arad’s Billion-Dollar Memorial” on the overblown World Trade Center Memorial, Bloomberg, 6/2/2006

“Ground Zero: Snohetta’s Elegant Center; Trump’s Crude Proposal” on the Freedom Center, at Ground Zero, and a plan by Donald Trump to duplicate destroyed World Trade Center towers, Bloomberg, 5/19/2005

“Ground Zero Memorial Becomes Necropolis to Grief” on how focusing on the victims sends the wrong message, Bloomberg, 2/15/2005

“Architect of U.S World War II Memorial Talks of Symbols” interview with Friedrich St. Florian, FAIA, Bloomberg, 6/23/2004

Who Owns Grief?” interview with memorial expert Edward Linenthal, Architectural Record, 7/2002

“Axel Schultes takes mourners at a crematorium from the clamor of daily life to a realm of calm and contemplation” On the Bunshulenweg Crematorium, Berlin, design reporting. Architectural Record, 5/2000

“Crowding the Mall” Design and political considerations concerning memorial design in Washington, D. C. Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 1999

“Art and Politics Vie in a Battle to Honor a Monumental War” on controversies surrounding World War II Memorial and others in Washington, D.C. The New York Times, 4/41999

“Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin Speaks To a History Both Rich and Tragic” Architectural Record, chronology and assessment. 1/1999

“Permanent Witness” Critical assessment of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, Pei Cobb Freed, architect; Architectural Record, 7/1993

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About James Russell

James S. Russell is an architecture critic, journalist, teacher and consultant. He's the author of the book, The Agile City, and has written for publications like Architectural Record, Bloomberg News, NY Times and more. Continue reading

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