A missed opportunity, famously criticized by Ada Louise Huxtable, will be rectified when the Kennedy Center's $175 million expansion project is complete.
"Steven Holl Architects has won approval for a pedestrian bridge to accompany its expansion to Washington, D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts," according to an article by Deane Madsen.
The approved plan will improve public access between the Kennedy Center and walkways along the Potomac River by creating a pedestrian bridge across the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway.
Madsen describes more of the significance of the bridges to the expansion project: The Kennedy Center, which Ada Louise Huxtable criticized on the occasion of its opening as much for its scale and lack of imagination as for its isolated position between the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and the various on- and off-ramps for highways that link Washington, D.C. to Virginia, now attempts to rectify the latter issue by creating the Kennedy Center's own pedestrian on-ramp from beside the river. The article includes lots of renderings of he project.
The Associated Press also reports on the approval of the bridge, also reporting the expansion project's total cost of $175 million.
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