The city’s newest memorial honoring the presidential and military legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower has finally opened after two decades of creative disagreements and nearly being halted.

Meaning the project can begin construction at a 4 acre site on the National Mall between the National Air and Space Museum and the Johnson Building.

“I know [Frank Gehry] supports this design and believes it has integrity.”

This week’s meeting, which began with a discussion of proposed landscaping elements, quickly turned to the two most controversial aspects of Gehry’s design – the metal tapestries which define the memorial precinct and the freestanding columns which support the tapestries.

The small, but influential commission that oversees public art on federal grounds signed off on the architect Frank Gehry’s oft-disputed design for the planned memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission voted unanimously to approve Frank Gehry’s controversial design for a memorial to the World War II Supreme Allied Commander and 34th president.

The group backing an alternative design for the Eisenhower Memorial could take a page from the history of the Lincoln Memorial.

In the context of controversy raging over the proposed memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, does another monument to a great general-turned-president live up to the figure to which it pays tribute?

Members of Congress debated the merits of the Frank Gehry-designed Eisenhower Memorial yesterday.

A Utah congressman wants to kill Frank Gehry’s proposed design for the Eisenhower Memorial.