Designers wanted for temporary memorial downtown

The National Capital Planning Commission is sponsoring a design competition for a temporary commemorative work to be built at the Federal Triangle.

The Beyond Granite competition is the commission’s first step in an experiment to break D.C.’s tradition of using public land permanently for fixtures, instead constructing ones that can later be taken down. The work will be built in the Ariel Rios Federal Building’s hemicycle, between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues and remain there for one year.