Union Square National Mall Winners Announced

May 3, 2012 –  Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and architects Davis Brody Bond are pleased to announce their selection as winners of the National Mall Design Competition for Union Square. The competition, organized by the Trust for the National Mall, was a three-stage process to select a design team. 

The project team, lead by Kathryn Gustafson and Rodrigo Abela of GGN, and Carl Krebs and Peter Cook of Davis Brody Bond, sees the site as a setting for some of the nation's most powerrful shared memories. 
 
“The National Mall is an extraordinary, monumental landscape. Remarkable for its sheer scale, its powerful presence serves the country as both a public park and place of gathering and discourse. The goal of our design is to create a sustainable, durable, and flexible plaza that is both inviting and active even when it is not  in use for national events."
Kathryn Gustafson, Director of GGN.