Winners Announced for National Mall Design Competition  The area
between the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Capitol has seen
better days, but architects are vying to improve the nation’s
front lawn    • By Megan Gambino   •, May 03, 2012 | 6 of 14 |
Sylvan Theater Constitution Gardens Constitution Gardens
Constitution Gardens Constitution Gardens Sylvan Theater Sylvan
Theater  (Courtesy of Balmori Associates + Work Architecture
Company)  Balmori Associates + Work Architecture Company  The
grounds just south of the Washington Monument have a lot of
untapped potential. Balmori Associates + Work Architecture
Company proposes carving Sylvan Bowl, a grass bowl theater, into
the hillside facing a circular stage and the Washington
Monument. (The theater would replace the largely defunct Sylvan
Theater, just southeast of the monument.) Yet, the real
“showpiece” of the team’s design, according to Savage, is a
building, almost a figure eight in shape, that houses the Sylvan
Restaurant, among other things. The edifice b