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Dcist: Designers Show How They’d Redesign The Tidal Basin To Save It From Rising Sea Levels

By Elliot C. Williams, DCist

On Wednesday, a combination of non-profit organizations, companies, and design teams launched the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab, an online exhibit that presents new plans for building a more sustainable Tidal Basin.

Originally intended to be an in-person exhibit, the project was shifted completely online, where visitors can submit feedback and ideas for the Tidal Basin’s future.

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Washingtonian: This New Project Imagines What the Tidal Basin Could Look Like in 100 Years

By Mimi Montgomery, Washingtonian

Could there one day be a land bridge extending from the Jefferson Memorial through the Tidal Basin?

Perhaps, at least according to the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab, which released renderings from five architects that depict possible renovations of the historic area. The Ideas Lab aims to address the Tidal Basin’s flooding and deteriorating infrastructure by bringing design and sustainability leaders together to collaborate on solutions.

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Architectural Record: Five Proposals Re-Envision a Resilient Tidal Basin

By Deane Madsen, published by Architectural Record

The saying goes that a rising tide lifts all boats, but what happens to national monuments, environmental landmarks, and other fixed elements of landscape when the waters rise and refuse to recede? That question is at the crux of the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab, which showcases the work of five firms, commissioned by the National Park Service, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Trust for the National Mall.left unaddressed, rising waters could inundate the trunks of those cherry trees along with monuments to figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in several feet of water every day during the river’s twice-daily high tides.

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Fast Company: The Jefferson Monument will be under 4 feet of water by 2040. Here’s how to redesign the National Mall

By Nate Berg, published by Fast Company

The roots of Washington, D.C.’s iconic cherry trees are rotting. At the National Mall Tidal Basin, where cherry trees line the water’s edge amid some of the country’s most famous monuments, sea-level rise and riverine flooding threaten not just tree roots but a landscape inextricably tied to the history of the United States. If the situation is left unaddressed, rising waters could inundate the trunks of those cherry trees along with monuments to figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in several feet of water every day during the river’s twice-daily high tides.

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WTOP: Ground broken for state-of-the-art horse facility on National Mall

By Rob Woodfork, WTOP

“A nonprofit organization broke ground Thursday for a new, state-of-the-art horse stable for U.S. Park Police mounted patrols and an education center on the National Mall.

The Trust for the National Mall spearheaded the effort to build the facility on the site of the current stable, which sits between the Korean War Veterans Memorial and the D.C. War Memorial.”

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US Park Police breaking ground for new Stables and Education Center on National Mall

By Bob Barnard, FOX 5 DC, October 8, 2020

“Despite its prominent location between the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial you may have passed by the U.S. Park Police stables without even noticing it.

But soon, a new facility more suitable for the U.S. Park Police’s Mounted Horse Patrol and their horses will stand in its place.”

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