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A Look at the Coming Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in D.C.

Through a series of sketches, animation and video walk-throughs, this video provides an overview of the next major memorial to be constructed on the National Mall in Washington D.C.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial site is a four-acre plot on the north east corner of the Tidal Basin within the precinct of the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt. It was designed by ROMA Design Group, which is an interdisciplinary firm of architects, landscape architects and planners based in San Francisco.

The project, outlined in the video, is currently raising the funding necessary to go forward with the work.

Read entire article at Britannica Blog