19 October 2004, 11:10pm ET By SARA KUGLER Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- The architects who designed Bill Clinton's presidential library, a gleaming glass and steel building over the Arkansas River that invokes his administration's theme of "building a bridge to the 21st century," have won a National Design Award for excellence in architecture.
Polshek Partnership Architects of New York, whose projects include Carnegie's newest concert hall and the planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, was one of two winners in the architecture design category for the prizes, awarded Tuesday by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Architect Rick Joy, currently working on a resort in Utah and several residential projects in the Southwest, also received an architecture award.
The $165 million Clinton presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., is scheduled to open next month with a major celebration and is expected to draw 300,000 visitors in 2005. The structure, designed to feel airy and inviting, also mimics six industrial bridges that span the river and contribute to the city's aesthetic."
Blame it on New York, people. Clinton could have showed some loyalty to his home State and hired an Architect from Arkansas.
At least we know what a "double wide" looks like.
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Do you have a pic? I don't even know what it looks like.