This
memorial to America ’s 2 million military women
includes an underground facility housing exhibition
spaces, a 196-seat theater, chapel, archival storage,
agift shop and office space. The project also involved
the restoration and redevelopment of the Hemicycle Wall
for its inclusion in the overall memorial project. The
facility is on axis with the Lincoln Memorial and includes
portions of the same Colorado Yule marble used for the
nearby Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The execution of
Cosentini’s mechanical design won a 1998 Craftsmanship
Award from the Washington Building Congress/Washington
Business Journal. The memorial was also featured in
the February 1998 issue of Architecture.
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