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Architect Frank Gehry reveals new details for Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- Images of trees and grain silos evoking President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Kansas home are part of the latest design architect Frank Gehry presented Thursday for a memorial to the 34th president in the nation’s capital. Gehry plans to use woven metal tapestries featuring photographs to frame a memorial park being built to honor to Eisenhower about a block off of the National Mall. The memorial will be the first work in Washington by the architect who’s world famous for his striking structures with undulating exteriors. Some changes to the design have been made in response to concerns by federal officials that it would block views of the Capitol. At a meeting on the design, Gehry discussed how architects settled on using photographs that