The neoclassical monument designed by Henry Bacon has become an iconic piece of architecture, but had one of the designs from the other competing architect been selected, the familiar Lincoln Memorial would have looked jarringly different—perhaps in the form of a ziggurat, Mayan temple or Egyptian pyramid. — history.com
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If you think those proposals are strange, imagine (non-architects) what you'd see if they held the competition today. Looking at the recent Guggenheim competition, one can only cringe. It would make the Eisenhower memorial fracas look like a misunderstanding amongst friends.
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