369th plan

After a lot of wrangling, the final plan for the 369th Infantry Memorial is pretty simple.

The monument sits slightly south-of-center, with a path leading to it that aligns axially with the armory across the street. The path will be made of a dark gray textured granite, as will the curbs.

There will be two small benches on either side of the monument, as requested by the Art Commission (and not shown on this plan).

Surrounding the hardware on all sides is a bed of Euonymus fortunei, a low-growing groundcover that turns purpleish in the winter. A few bollards will be placed at strategic points to prevent those crazy livery drivers from hitting the monument when they jump the curb (and I do mean when, not if).

The trees are the existing Sophora japonica that you can see in the previous post's pictures. One of them was transplanted to make the composition more symmetrical, and they were both limbed up to provide more visibility for the monument.

So that's it. Here are some other images shown to the Art Commission:


Exisiting conditions photo (top) and proposed plan sketch (bottom).


Below: some of the proposed materials.