ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, January 18, 1997 TAG: 9701200119
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
An Austrian-born architect who remembers smiling GIs liberating his Alpine village will design the national memorial to the Americans who helped win World War II, President Clinton announced Friday.
The winning design, a low- slung ensemble of circling columns, a central waterfall connecting two reflecting pools and a carpet of hundreds of thousands of white roses, was submitted by Friedrich St.Florian, a professor and former dean at the Rhode Island School of Design.
The product of an arduous and sometimes controversial competition, St.Florian's design will be built at a central location on the National Mall with views of the Capitol, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
The target date for dedicating the memorial is Veterans Day 2000. But achieving that goal depends on the success of a $100million fund-raising effort.
President Clinton called the St.Florian design a ``very impressive'' tribute to the Americans who helped win the war both on battlefields around the world and in the factories at home. |- Associated Press
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