Due to be unveiled next month, Eisenhower memorial may be last of its kind

Now that the memorial Frank Gehry designed to honor Dwight D. Eisenhower is finished, the acclaimed architect isn’t dwelling on the turmoil and rancor stirred up by those who opposed his design. He sounds like a happy man.

“What an adventure,” Gehry said in a recent phone interview from his office in Los Angeles. “I wouldn’t have missed it for anything.”

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