Congressional budget cuts have stalled Frank Gehry's controversial Eisenhower Memorial, rejecting $49M in construction funds and decreasing the likelihood that the project will ever break ground. Though the Eisenhower Memorial Commission's director "remains optimistic, stating that the FDR Memorial took nearly 45 years to get built," for now, congress has accomplished what so many withering one-liners couldn't. [Arch Daily; previously]
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