Gehry Partners gets the Dwight Eisenhower Memorial Bid

This post on the NY Times Art Beat discusses how architect Frank Gehry from Gehry Partners have been chosen to design a memorial in Washington D.C. to honor President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ron Krueck of Krueck & Sexton, Rob Rogers and Jonathan Marvel of Rogers Marvel Architects, and Peter Walker of PWP Landscape Architecture are among others that were up for the bid on the project. It's scheduled to take roughly 5 years and cost anywhere from $90 million to $120 million.