Washington Gardener: Tidal Basin Ideas Lab Launched to Address Landmark's Urgent Needs

Tidal Basin Ideas Lab Launched to Address Landmark's Urgent Needs

By Nicole Noechel, Washington Gardener, November 2020

Over the past 10 years, Washington’s historic Tidal Basin has experienced worsening daily flooding and crumbling infrastructure, according to the Trust for the National Mall’s Executive Vice President, Teresa Durkin…To address these problems, the Trust for the National Mall, along with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and civic partner Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, have teamed up to create the online Tidal Basin Ideas Lab with five reconstruction plans by world-renowned architects and design firms.