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Polshek Partnership Architects Wins National Design AwardThe architects who designed Bill Clinton's presidential library, a gleaming glass-and-steel building over the Arkansas River that invokes his administration's theme of "building a bridge to the 21st century," have won a National Design Award for excellence in architecture.
Polshek Partnership Architects of New York was one of two winners in the architecture design category for the prizes, awarded Tuesday by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Architect Rick Joy, currently working on a resort in Utah and several residential projects in the Southwest, also received an architecture award.
The $165 million Clinton presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., is scheduled to open next month with a major celebration. It is expected to draw 300,000 visitors in 2005. The structure also mimics six industrial bridges that span the river.
Polshek Partnership also was selected to design an underground exhibit center at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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